Prevent breaches with complete attack prevention, detection and response across endpoints.
Talk with ExpertIn an age of increasing workplace digitization, organizations often struggle to mitigate the security risks of employees connecting to networks and accessing sensitive information on a range of devices.
Compromising endpoints is a tactic commonly used by cybercriminals to obtain a foothold on a network. Having appropriate controls in place to swiftly detect and respond to threats targeting endpoints is now widely considered essential.
Endpoint security, also known as endpoint protection, refers to the protection internet-connected devices such as desktops, laptops, servers, smartphones and tablets against cyber threats.
Endpoints are susceptible to a wide-range of cyber security threats. This makes them a popular target for malicious attackers seeking to disrupt or gain access to target networks.
Installation of antivirus software is one common, and indeed essential, way that organisations can seek to prevent endpoints from being compromised. Antivirus software scans endpoints to search for, identify and remove common threats. It does this by comparing scan results against a list of known threat signatures.
Relying on traditional antivirus solutions alone can leave organisations vulnerable to more sophisticated threats, however. The inability of AV systems to detect hidden threats, such as memory-resident malware, means that a new breed of endpoint security is needed to perform deeper behavioural analysis and facilitate swifter incident response.
An Endpoint Protection Platform (EPP) is an advanced form of endpoint security technology designed to detect new forms of malware, block malicious activity and provide the investigation and remediation capabilities required to enhance incident response.
Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) technologies such as Carbon Black take this a step further, combining elements of next-gen antivirus with additional monitoring tools to provide real-time anomaly detection and alerting. By recording every file execution and modification, registry change, network connection and binary execution across an organisation’s connected hosts, EDR enhances threat visibility beyond the scope of traditional antivirus and network monitoring tools.
By monitoring all processes at end point level in real-time and alerting on suspicious activity, EDR helps security teams track and shut down malicious actors.
EDR helps security teams to identify the root cause of attacks plus understand the lateral movement and scope of intrusions.
Endpoint security technologies provide a wealth of information about identified threats and activities at endpoint level.
EDR supports cyber threat hunting, the process of proactively searching for unknown attacks, by enabling security teams to create custom watch-lists to detect specified patterns of behavior.
In line with the latest breach reporting requirements, EDR technologies establish and maintain a centralized store of endpoint data, providing a historical timeline of evidence.
Early detection of attacks targeting endpoints is vital, but without a team of security experts to leverage the power of endpoint technology to pinpoint attacks and swiftly shut down breaches as soon as they occur, this is a near impossible task.
A managed endpoint security service eases these burdens by supplying the latest technology, an around-the-clock team of certified cyber security operations center experts and up-to-the-minute industry intelligence for a cost-effective monthly subscription.
