# Does Cyber Crucible replace my EDR, or work alongside it?

**Short answer:** Either. Cyber Crucible is designed to run alongside existing EDR, XDR, and MDR tools without conflict, and many customers deploy it that way. It also works as a standalone prevention layer if you decide to reduce your stack.

## Running alongside your current stack

Cyber Crucible does not require you to remove anything. It adds autonomous prevention beneath the detection layer you already own, and it works with or without EDR and MDR present.

Customers frequently start this way deliberately — deploying Cyber Crucible to find out what their existing stack is missing. In one financial services deployment, that answer arrived within 60 days: nearly 10,000 malicious processes intercepted that three EDRs and an outsourced SOC never alerted on.

## Reducing the stack

Once teams see how often their detection tools don't engage, some choose to consolidate. There's no vendor lock-in and no forced integrations — you can replace your EDR entirely or simply cut spend where it isn't earning its keep.