How does ADR reduce false positives compared to EDR?

EDR can be ambiguous because legitimate application-runtime behavior may look suspicious at the process level. ADR reduces ambiguity by showing exactly which library caused the event and whether it is expected or exploit-driven.

What type of CISO needs ADR versus EDR?

Infrastructure CISOs managing mainly IT, infrastructure, endpoints, servers, and packaged apps typically need EDR/CWPP for broad detection. Software Factory CISOs with developers shipping constantly, AI-generated code, open-source-heavy applications, and supply-chain exploits need ADR for code-aware control.

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Q: What is the difference between EDR and ADR in terms of application-runtime visibility?

EDR does not provide deep language-aware visibility inside the application runtime and typically cannot identify the specific Python/Java/Node/Go/.NET library and function chain that caused the event. ADR provides runtime code visibility and application-runtime visibility at the library, function, syscall, and call-chain level across 10+ languages.

EDR stops at infrastructure.

ADR understands the application running on it.

Traditional EDR and CWPP runtime sensors are valuable for infrastructure and workload security. They can observe process execution, network activity and container/workload context.

ADR also sees process, network, syscall, container, image, pod, node, and workload context. The difference is that ADR ties these runtime events back to the exact application runtime, code, library, function, and call chain that caused the behavior.

‍This distinction matters most for CISOs responsible for software factories: organizations that build, ship, and operate code at high velocity. For those organizations, the security question is not only “what did the workload do?” but “which part of our application or open-source dependency caused it, is it expected, and what should the developer fix?”

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Traditional EDR/CWPP Runtime View

Runtime ADR

Main question answered

What did the process, host, or workload do?

Which library/function chain inside the application caused the behavior?

Process, network, and syscall visibility

Detects process execution, network activity, file activity, and system calls at the workload/host level.

Also sees process, network, syscall, container, image, pod, node, and workload context - and ties those events back to the responsible library/function chain.

Application-runtime visibility

Does not provide deep language-aware visibility inside the application runtime; typically cannot identify the specific Python/Java/Node/Go/.NET library and function chain that caused the event.

Provides runtime code visibility and application-runtime visibility at the library, function, syscall, and call-chain level across 10+ languages.

Open-source library context

May know that an image or workload contains vulnerable packages, but runtime event attribution to a specific library/function chain is limited.

Shows the specific OSS package/library, version, runtime path, and vulnerable function context when applicable.

Command execution

Detects process creation or command execution.

Attributes command execution to the responsible library/function chain and policy context.

Network activity

Detects outbound connections or suspicious network behavior.

Attributes network behavior to the specific library/function chain that initiated it.

False-positive reduction

Can be ambiguous because legitimate application-runtime behavior may look suspicious at the process level.

Reduces ambiguity by showing exactly which library caused the event and whether it is expected or exploit-driven.

Prevention model

Often broader process, workload, host, file, or network policy action.

Surgical syscall-level prevention from the violating library/function chain, without killing the entire application process.

Developer actionability

No. May require manual investigation from process-level evidence.

Points to package, library, function, image, service, policy, and fix path.

Not every CISO has the same runtime problem.

Infrastructure CISO

Mainly IT and infrastructure

Endpoints, servers, cloud, SaaS

Packaged apps and vendors like SAP

Runtime goal: broad detection

EDR / CWPP usually fits.

Software Factory CISO

Developers shipping constantly

AI-generated code

Open-source-heavy applications

Supply-chain and CVE-less exploits

Runtime goal: code-aware control

ADR is built for this.

The software factory does not need another alert queue. It needs to know which code caused the behavior.

Traditional EDR and CWPP runtime sensors provide important workload, process, network, and cloud context. These tools are valuable, especially for infrastructure and SOC workflows.

ADR fills a different and deeper gap: application-runtime security. ADR connects runtime behavior to the exact library and function path that caused it, prioritizes vulnerabilities based on runtime execution, and can surgically block only the dangerous syscall or action from the violating library/function chain.

EDR helps secure the workload. ADR secures the application runtime inside that workload. ADR shows which library caused the behavior, whether the vulnerable function actually executed, and what the developer should fix or what ADR should surgically block.