My last job had a modern endpoint detection system running on it and my 7 year old MacBook was as quick as my top of the line i9 processor because of it. I have never seen software destroy a systems performance as much as carbon black, crowdstrike and cortex do.

They’re also not exactly risk free - [0]

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2024_CrowdStrike-related_IT_...