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Endpoint Security Overview

Endpoint compliance solutions run tests to see if an endpoint complies with the security policy before allowing access to networks, giving companies peace of mind while freeing employees to work away from the corporate environment.

Benefits:

  • Devices trying to access the network can be quarantined until they comply with the security policy
  • Corporate information is properly protected against hardware loss or theft by encrypting data stored on endpoints such as laptops and on removable media
  • Data leaving the company is tracked for where it has been copied or moved to
  • Software-based secure remote access, authenticating the user not just the device or the login credentials

Any organisation concerned about IT security would discover that endpoints are the universal Achilles heel of risk.  End-points bring 3 significant new areas of risk:

  1. Attacks increasingly by-pass tradidtional perimeter-focused security and enter endpoints and the enterprise network through a variety of methods, such as interaction with a web-site.
  2. A large number of endpoints are mobile so they may be used both inside and outside the traditional perimeter of security controls.
  3. Endpoints present a huge logistical challenge to IT staff who often must manage deployment of policies and controls for multiple security agents on each device.
Endpoints need proper security controls or they face higher odds of falling to a vulnerability exploit.  Successful exploits of vulnerabilities on endpoints can lead to stolen data, disruptions of business operations, and potential penalties for non-compliance with laws and regulations on security.

To respond to these challenges, enterprises are turning toward a new strategy that includes a broad set of technologies for endpoint security unified into a single agent with central control.  This is the right strategy, but ensuring its success requires implementation of all controls covering major security risks to endpoints.  In addition to functional scope, enterprises must ensure that operational overhead for security controls on endpoints is neglibile, that controls are invisible to end-users, and that the entire solution can be cost effectively and efficiently managed from a central location.

Endpoints are any computing device attached or connected to an organisation's network including;
  • PC's
  • notebooks
  • handheld computing (PDAs)
  • electronic devices with storage, I/O, and/or wireless connectivity
  • IP-networked devices with programmable logic controllers
To achieve strong endpoint security an enterprise should carefully consider functions in a particular unified endpoint solution.  Only a comprehensive set of security controls can provide an enterprise with complete endpoint security.

At a minimum, for unified endpoint security, organisations should consider requiring steps to;
  • Detect and block malware
  • Secure data
  • Enforce policy compliance
  • Ensure secure remote access
  • Streamline management
  • Minimise end-user impact
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