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EDR rollout plan: the first 90 days, week by week
A premium implementation guide: pilot rings, tuning targets, the metrics that prove the rollout worked, and the mistakes that cost teams a quarter.
Most EDR rollouts stall in week six: the pilot went fine, the second ring produced a flood of alerts nobody owned, and the project quietly became "phase 2". This plan is built to avoid that week.
Before day one
- Inventory the estate honestly. Count endpoints by OS and version, including the ones nobody admits to: build servers, kiosks, the finance team's Windows 7 box. The agent will not run on some of them, and you want to know which now.
- Name the owners. One person owns the deployment, one owns alert triage, one owns exceptions. Three names, written down.
- Set the exit criteria. Coverage above 97 percent of managed endpoints, median triage time under 20 minutes, fewer t...
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