Endpoint Detection and Response Experts in Frankfurt
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Reza N.
Last position:
Senior IT-Security Expert at Teambank AG
- Completed the integration of log sources into Microsoft Sentinel, including GCP workloads – centralized consolidation of all security-relevant events from Azure and GCP environments for complete end-to-end telemetry and comprehensive compliance evidence
- Developed custom rules and use cases based on the GFG Use-Case Library and the MITRE ATT&CK Matrix to cover company-specific threats and GFG-relevant scenarios with precise, mapped detection rules
- Tuned detection rules to minimize false positives, optimized detection thresholds, and modeled exceptions – enabling the SOC to work with relevant, prioritized alerts while reducing Mean Time to Detect/Respond
- Built SOAR capabilities in Sentinel by developing playbooks to automate recurring response processes such as containment, user and host isolation, and ticketing – shorter response times and 24/7 scalability
- Designed and built a log transformation solution to normalize and enrich incoming raw logs (GeoIP, CMDB, threat intelligence) and convert them into a consistent schema for high-performance KQL queries, use case logic, and correlations
- Managed Azure security through Azure Policies to enforce security and compliance standards, prevent drift, and continuously remediate deviations
- Operated the Defender XDR portal to link endpoint, identity, email, and SaaS signals with Sentinel findings, enable holistic incident triage, and orchestrate measures directly from XDR
Technologies: Microsoft Sentinel, Microsoft Defender XDR, Azure Policy, KQL, GCP, MITRE ATT&CK
Guido K.
Last position:
IT Consultant / Owner at Guido Krauß IT-Consulting
Self-employed consulting, implementation, and support of IT infrastructures with a focus on IT security, network and server administration, virtualization, backup & recovery, IT documentation, asset management, and business continuity management.
- IT security consulting and implementation of technical protective measures
- Windows server and client support, patch management, user support
- M365 – Entra ID – MS Azure administration
- Planning, installation, and operation of LAN, WAN, WLAN, and VLAN infrastructures, Cisco, HP, Netgear, Sophos, Securepoint
- Support of virtual systems based on Hyper-V, VMware, and Proxmox
- Backup and recovery concepts including test recovery, documentation, and handover
- Introduction and maintenance of IT documentation, asset management, and inventory tracking
- Implementation of measures related to IT baseline protection, emergency manuals, and BCM
- On-/offboarding concepts with a focus on permissions, devices, data access, and handover processes
Security awareness and practical sensitization of users and IT staff
Kurt R.
Last position:
Lead Solution Architect (AI HealthTech) / interim CTO & Product Co-Owner at Physio-Agil Frankfurt
- General CTO responsibilities (architectural design, operational setup, external runtime product evaluation, investor buy-in, regulatory compliance).
- Software development oversight (implementation on deep-dive-in) plus workflow design.
- Product co-ownership.
- Tech/tools/frameworks: proprietary software (Java, JavaScript), Kubernetes, Postgres, MiniIO, Ollama (internal), several xAI API (external), OpenTofu (Terraform), Keycloak, Kafka, Prometheus, ELK Stack, GitHub, GitHub Workflows, Argo CD, ISO 27001, BSI-ISM, EU AI Act.
Fabrizio D.
Last position:
Managing Director at ContrailRisks Germany
- Founded and lead a cybersecurity advisory firm focused on virtual CISO services for financial, SaaS, and critical infrastructure clients.
- Advise executive teams on cyber risk, regulatory compliance (DORA, NIS2, ISO 27001), and incident preparedness.
- Built and executed security programs from scratch, driving measurable maturity improvements.
- Delivered tailored risk assessments, policies, and cloud security guidance (AWS, Azure).
- Scaled the business through client acquisition, partnerships (Vanta, AWS, etc), and a network of senior consultants.
Reinhard G.
Last position:
IT Infrastructure / User Management at UMF – University Medical Center Frankfurt
- User account management and creation in Active Directory
- Group management and modification in Active Directory
- Permission management on file servers
- Exchange/Outlook support
- VPN setup
- System and product support: Windows 10, Windows 11, Office 2019, Office 365, Active Directory, TeamViewer, RSA VPN, Microsoft Teams, RSA Security Console, Deep Discovery Mail Inspector, ServiceNow, Macmon
Tan P.
Last position:
DevOps Engineer in the DevOps Team at Rise-World
- Implementation of specified DevOps solutions to automate infrastructure (Terraform, Bicep, CloudFormation, Ansible) on-premises datacenter (Ovirt, Proxmox, Ceph Cluster, MinIO) and private cloud.
- Administration, configuration and implementation of CI/CD DevOps pipelines (GitLab, GitFlow) to support development process (Artifactory, Prometheus, Istio, service mesh, Helm Chart, OpenShift (Red Hat Enterprise) / Kubernetes cluster), Red Hat Satellite.
- Administration, setup, monitoring and patching of Linux infrastructure based on Red Hat Enterprise for Dev, Test and QA.
- Use of Scrum and Kanban methods.
- Administration, configuration and implementation of security standards for deploying on Dev, Test, QA and Prod stages of the new ePA applications.
- Development of new plugins and add-ons needed on current infrastructure.
- Database support.
- Data analytics support (Python, Spark, Pandas, Power BI, Splunk Enterprise).
- Implementation of best practices for DevSecOps and BizDevOps using GitOps (ArgoCD), Streamlit framework, Semaphore Ansible UI.
- Configuration and testing of iperf, uperf, sysbench using benchmark-operator for external source data and IoT/MDM devices, creating reports via ELK / OpenSearch.
- Building a new Databricks platform to collect and analyze big data from different sources and IoT devices into Hadoop framework (Python, Pandas, PySpark, Power BI, Apache Airflow).
- Building backend data aggregation and processing to automate configuration deployment between different OpenShift clusters and big data framework (Python, Pandas, PySpark, Apache Spark, PostgreSQL, Django 2, Ansible Automation, Jira JSM).
- Building a new ML pipeline platform using Kubeflow, TensorFlow, KServe.
- Data extraction, transformation and loading from different data sources including structured and unstructured data to analytic DWH / big data cluster using Python, Pandas, Polars, Power BI, Django backend and PostgreSQL.
- Setup of new DevOps Test and QA HashiCorp Vault cluster for PKI and IAM.
- Configuration and testing of automated patching based on CVSS score, SIEM-integrated CVEs.
- Use of Nexpose and InsightVM to scan vulnerability events in network, host, container and application.
- Design and implementation of secure and scalable AWS architectures including VPC, EC2, S3, RDS and Route53 and similar setups on Azure and GCP.
- Automated system provisioning and deployment using CloudFormation templates.
- Configuration of IAM roles, policies and permissions to ensure secure access control.
- Patch management, backup automation and disaster recovery setup on AWS infrastructure.
- Monitoring and optimization of system performance using AWS CloudWatch and AWS Trusted Advisor.
- Support of VMware services (vSphere, Aria, Horizon) and the virtual desktop environment.
- Development and maintenance of CI/CD pipelines using Jenkins, GitLab CI/CD and AWS CodePipeline with interface to Nutanix.
- Configuration of AWS CloudWatch to monitor application performance and system events.
- Planning and execution of migration of on-premises applications to AWS cloud platforms.
- Deployment of containerized applications using Docker and Kubernetes in AWS environments.
- Deployment of internal software packages between availability zones using AWS CodeDeploy.
- Building and deploying ML models using Scikit-learn, XGBoost and Spark MLlib including hyperparameter tuning, model evaluation and production deployment.
Thoralf T.
Last position:
Consultant Digital Operational Resilience Act (DORA) at Swisslife Deutschland GmbH
- Auditing CIS evidence of the SOC providers T-Systems Austria and Cancom GmbH
- Mapping of VAIT, ISO:IEC 27002 and CIS 7.0 requirements for the IT realignment strategy of the German subsidiaries in threat intelligence and zero trust
- Reviewing SIEM evidence, reporting, incident management and security breaches
- Reviewing IT asset management regarding ITSCM and BCM processes
- Employee awareness and compliance training focused on CEO fraud
- Advising the chief information security officer
Hakan K.
Last position:
IT-Management & Administration at Freiberufliche IT-Dienstleistung
- Hybrid Cloud Administration (Cloud Transformation)
- Azure Cloud Administration
- Azure Entra ID user administration
- Reporting
- License reviews
- User and group management
- RBAC integration
- Policy management
- VM administration: setup of VMs, configuration of scale sets, configuration of replications, creation of backups, manual installation
- Azure Bastion
- Privileged access identity management
- Documentation
- Azure Security Center: monitoring security posture and recommendations to improve security
- Microsoft 365 administration: MS Intune administration (Bitlocker policies, distribution, device management, group management)
- MS365 Defender (Defender for Endpoint, threat management, EDR solution implementation, threat detection through investigations)
- Defender for Office 365 (protection of Office 365 tools against phishing, malware, and other attacks)
- Defender for Identity (identification, activity monitoring)
- Defender for Cloud Apps (application monitoring and protection)
- Windows Active Directory, DHCP, DNS, policies, Baramundi, SCCM/MECM, VMware, WSUS, Sophos
- Exchange administration: rule creation, setup and deployment of mailboxes, mailbox migration, mail tracking, mailbox conversion, report generation
- Windows AD administration: user management across the structure, device management, attribute management, group management, organizational management, troubleshooting
- Group Policy management: modifying, deleting or creating policies, assigning and organizing policies, documentation and reporting
- Manual installation & imaging: new imaging, image creation, manual maintenance and updates, documentation of various enterprise applications
- Bitlocker configuration, BIOS and firmware configuration, troubleshooting and collaboration with level 3 support, MBSA reporting, WSUS monitoring, system and event management, troubleshooting across the IT infrastructure
- Network management (including SWIFT network): MAC address filtering, network switch configuration, port management, switch patching
- VMware ESXi/vSphere/vCenter administration: VM management, troubleshooting, virtualization solutions, updates and maintenance
- Virtualization & cloud: Azure, Citrix, VMware, VirtualBox, ESXi, Hyper-V, VMware AHV, vulnerability management, migrations
- Identifying, assessing and remediating security vulnerabilities on hybrid endpoints through regular vulnerability assessments and patch management
- Backup & recovery: Teams administration, data migration, SAN, SharePoint administration, NAS, Exchange administration, cloud backup: policy creation, mailbox migration
- IT security: firewall, antivirus, Azure, MS365 Security Defender: monitoring, mailbox setup and implementation, mail tracking, mailbox conversion, report generation
- IT service management: team meetings, report analysis, documentation, analysis
- Other: monitoring progress against goals, ServiceNow, HPSM, prioritizing activities, JIRA, MS365, integration of requested projects, MDM, TeamViewer, AnyDesk, Adobe, PowerShell, CLI, CMD
- IT service desk: Exchange, JIRA org administration, SCCM shell: user management, device management, project management, ticket reviews, user training, ticket handling, change management, permission management, VIP support
- Facility management: coordination with building management/technical teams, organizing technology for conferences, guest access, employee access
- Nutanix/VMware administration: provisioning and setup of Nutanix clusters, installation and configuration of Nutanix AHV, VMware ESXi & Hyper-V, infrastructure maintenance and operations, upgrades and patches for Nutanix clusters, planning and implementing backup solutions, installation and configuration of VMware ESXi hosts and vCenter servers, hybrid environments
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Statistics of experts using Endpoint Detection and Response
Aggregated from the professional profiles of matched freelancers.
Experience
21 years (Germany: 20 years)
Position duration
2 years (Germany: 2.4 years)
Positions per freelancer
15 (Germany: 13)
Top business areas
Information Technology, Operations, Customer Service
Top industries
Information Technology, Banking and Finance, Automotive
Certification focus areas
Information Technology, Project Management, Quality Assurance
Bachelor's degree or higher
67% (Germany: 76%)
Master's degree or higher
33% (Germany: 35%)
Certifications per freelancer
8 (Germany: 6)
Most common languages
German, English, Spanish
Speak two or more languages
88% (Germany: 97%)
Based on our profile pool as of 19 Sep 2026.
Daily rate distribution
The chart shows how the daily rates of freelancers in this technology in Frankfurt are distributed, based on recent contracts on our platform. Each bar covers a rate range — its height shows how many freelancers charge within that range.
Average rates of experts in Frankfurt using Endpoint Detection and Response
Rates are based on recent contracts and do not include FRATCH margin.
The average daily rate is the mean of all daily rates from recent contracts of comparable freelancers on our platform.
The median daily rate is the middle value of all daily rates — half of comparable freelancers charge less, half charge more. Unlike the average, it is barely affected by outliers.
Calculated based on our freelancers’ daily rates as of 19 Sep 2026. Actual rates may vary depending on seniority level, experience, skill specialization, project complexity, and engagement length.
Endpoint Detection and Response experts industry focus
See which industries our matched freelancers work in most often — every figure is calculated live from the freelancers on FRATCH.
- Information Technology (100%)
- Banking and Finance (75%)
- Automotive (63%)
- Healthcare (50%)
- Insurance (38%)
- Manufacturing (38%)
- Government and Administration (38%)
- Retail (38%)
Please note that freelancers can work across multiple industries, so percentages overlap.
About the technology
What EDR does
Endpoint Detection and Response, usually called EDR, continuously monitors laptops, servers and other endpoints for suspicious activity. It records process, network, user and file events, then helps security teams investigate incidents and contain threats. EDR supports threat detection, digital forensics and response rather than relying only on signature-based antivirus.
Core capabilities
A strong EDR implementation connects endpoint telemetry with practical investigation and response workflows. Specialists configure prevention controls, detection logic and containment actions without disrupting legitimate business activity.
- Collect endpoint telemetry and preserve useful evidence
- Investigate suspicious processes, persistence and lateral movement
- Isolate affected devices and remove malicious artifacts
- Tune alerts to reduce noise and improve analyst focus
Tools and ecosystem
EDR work often involves platforms such as Microsoft Defender for Endpoint, CrowdStrike Falcon and SentinelOne. It also connects with SIEM, SOAR, identity, vulnerability management and cloud security tools. Knowledge of Windows, macOS and Linux internals, PowerShell, command-line activity and network protocols is valuable for accurate investigations.
When companies need specialists
Companies bring in freelance EDR specialists during a rollout, a security improvement programme or an active incident. They may need help replacing legacy antivirus, standardising policies across offices or validating that alerts lead to clear action. Frankfurt organisations can benefit from professionals who work remotely while coordinating with local security, infrastructure and compliance teams.
- Select and configure an EDR platform
- Migrate policies and endpoint coverage from legacy tools
- Build incident playbooks and escalation paths
- Review detections, exposure and response readiness
What strong professionals deliver
The best professionals combine endpoint knowledge with disciplined incident response. They can explain why an alert matters, separate malicious behaviour from administrative activity and document decisions for technical and non-technical stakeholders. They test containment procedures, protect evidence and leave behind maintainable rules, runbooks and operational guidance.
EDR, XDR and related practices
EDR focuses on endpoint evidence and actions, while XDR correlates signals across endpoints, email, cloud services and networks. SIEM platforms centralise and retain security data, but they do not replace endpoint visibility or response controls. Depending on the project, specialists may also work with MDR providers, threat intelligence, vulnerability management and identity security.
Frequently asked questions
Not sure where to start with Endpoint Detection and Response? These answers cover the essentials.
Endpoint Detection and Response is used to monitor endpoint activity, detect suspicious behaviour and support investigation and containment. It helps organisations respond to malware, ransomware, credential misuse and unauthorised persistence with evidence from affected devices.
EDR collects detailed activity data and supports investigation and response after or during suspicious behaviour. Traditional antivirus mainly blocks known or clearly malicious files, while EDR can help uncover fileless activity, unusual processes and attack patterns.
EDR is the right focus when endpoint visibility and direct device response are the main needs. XDR adds correlation across security domains, while SIEM centralises events for broader analysis; many organisations use these technologies together rather than treating them as substitutes.
A strong Endpoint Detection and Response specialist should understand Windows, macOS or Linux internals, identity security, networking and incident handling. Experience with SIEM, SOAR, PowerShell, threat intelligence and cloud environments can make investigations more complete.
EDR rollout work requires enough practical experience to assess endpoint groups, define prevention policies and plan safe deployment. The right level depends on the estate, operating systems, integrations and incident readiness, so a pilot and a clear operating model should come before broad rollout.
Endpoint Detection and Response work is often suitable for remote collaboration because configuration, telemetry review and documentation can be handled securely online. On-site sessions may still help with workshops, sensitive environments or coordination with Frankfurt-based security and infrastructure teams.
Look for a Endpoint Detection and Response professional who can demonstrate careful alert triage, evidence-based investigation and safe containment decisions. Ask how they reduce false positives, test response actions, document findings and measure whether detections lead to useful outcomes.
A typical EDR engagement can deliver platform configuration, endpoint policy standards, detection tuning, incident playbooks and integration with SIEM or identity tools. It should also leave clear documentation, handover guidance and a process for reviewing new threats and recurring alerts.
The average hourly rate of freelancers in Frankfurt, Germany who have used Endpoint Detection and Response in their recent projects is 109 €, which corresponds to a daily rate of about 870 € based on an 8-hour working day.
Of the freelancers in Frankfurt, Germany who have used Endpoint Detection and Response in their recent projects, 67% hold at least a Bachelor's degree and 33% hold at least a Master's degree.
On average, freelancers in Frankfurt, Germany who have used Endpoint Detection and Response in their recent projects have 21 years of professional experience, with a single engagement typically lasting around 2 years.
The most common languages among freelancers in Frankfurt, Germany who have used Endpoint Detection and Response in their recent projects are German (88%), English (88%), and Spanish (13%).
The most common industries among freelancers in Frankfurt, Germany who have used Endpoint Detection and Response in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Banking and Finance (75%), and Automotive (63%).
The most common business areas among freelancers in Frankfurt, Germany who have used Endpoint Detection and Response in their recent projects are Information Technology (100%), Operations (88%), and Customer Service (63%).
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