ManageEngine pushes autonomous endpoint security with EDR, zero trust access in Endpoint Central

Unifies UEM, EDR, DEX and secure private access with AI-driven threat detection and automated remediation.

ManageEngine expands its unified endpoint management and security platform, Endpoint Central, with the addition of endpoint detection and response (EDR) and secure private access capabilities, as enterprises shift toward integrated, AI-driven security models.

With the update, Endpoint Central now combines unified endpoint management (UEM), endpoint protection and EDR, digital employee experience (DEX) and secure private access into a single natively built platform.

The move aims to simplify endpoint operations while strengthening security through AI-powered threat detection, automated remediation and Zero Trust access to internal applications.

The expansion comes as enterprises grapple with distributed workforces and device environments, where endpoints have become both the operational hub and the primary attack surface.

ManageEngine’s vice president, Mathivanan Venkatachalam, said, “As enterprise environments become more distributed, the endpoint has become the enforcement point for both threat detection and access control.”

“With these capabilities, we’re helping organisations shift from reactive security to autonomous resilience, enabling earlier threat detection and faster remediation while ensuring only trusted devices access critical resources.”

According to the company, organisations continue to rely on fragmented tools for endpoint management, security and remote access, creating complexity and widening security gaps.

At the same time, attackers are using AI-assisted techniques to launch sophisticated threats, including ransomware and file-less attacks, while traditional VPN-based access models continue to expose enterprise networks to broader risks.

By integrating EDR and secure private access into Endpoint Central, ManageEngine enables IT and security teams to operate from a unified layer of endpoint intelligence.

The platform uses a single lightweight agent and centralised console to bring together threat detection, investigation, response and access control.

Unified telemetry across endpoint activity allows faster cross-domain detection and investigation, while enabling direct remediation actions such as patch deployment and configuration hardening within the same workflow.

Behavioural analytics to identify advanced threats

The platform introduces AI-driven threat detection capabilities that use behavioural analytics to identify advanced threats, including living-off-the-land techniques.

It also provides deep endpoint visibility by correlating telemetry across processes, files, registry and network activity, and mapping behaviours to the MITRE ATT&CK framework to track attacker movement.

Security teams can isolate compromised devices, terminate malicious processes and roll back ransomware-encrypted files from a single console.

AI-guided investigation further assists analysts by surfacing relevant attack patterns and telemetry, helping accelerate threat hunting and reduce response times.

On the access side, secure private access capabilities enforce Zero Trust principles by verifying device trust and applying identity-aware policies for every request, ensuring that only trusted endpoints can access critical internal applications.

The company positions the update as a shift from reactive security to autonomous resilience, where endpoint security, management and access control converge into a single operational layer.

With this expansion, ManageEngine is strengthening its position in the endpoint security market, as enterprises increasingly look to consolidate tools and adopt AI-driven, Zero Trust-based security architectures.