# How do we notice when a server's endpoint protection goes silent?

Make silence itself an alert in your endpoint console, and keep an independent view from the network. Most EDR and antivirus consoles can report agents that have not checked in for a set time; switch that on, send it to a mailbox someone reads, and decide in advance what you do when a server goes quiet: call the owner, check whether it was a planned reinstall, and look at what the machine did on the network. Review once a month the list of machines that should have an agent against the ones that do. Restrict the right to uninstall or pause the agent to a few named accounts with multi-factor authentication. The network view is the second witness: NetSenX does not read your EDR's status, but it keeps flagging the server if it starts beaconing, scanning, moving laterally or sending unusual volumes out, so a silent agent does not mean a silent attack.

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## Read next

- https://netsenx.com/en/what-is-ndr
- https://netsenx.com/en/blog/2026-09-24_ndr-vs-edr-vs-siem

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