Any solution selected should be flexible to support how organizations work without creating additional security overhead. It includes supporting multi-function protection, ensuring minimal impact on performance, and allowing for the integration of other security tools.
Choose a solution that offers cloud deployment, on-premises capabilities, and visibility into devices outside the enterprise network. It should also have a proven track record of preventing data breaches and protecting against advanced cyberattacks.
Detection
Modern endpoint security tools can help protect the network from cyber threats that could erode the digital perimeter. These solutions go beyond the basic antivirus protections to offer detection and response capabilities to prevent sophisticated malware and zero-day attacks.
Look for solutions with a low incidence of false positives, negligible impact on systems, and a cloud-based console to make them easier to manage and maintain. It should also provide easy-to-understand reports.
Prevention
In an era where remote work and bring-your-own-device policies have become standard, your business must be prepared for attacks that can bypass your network perimeter. Your endpoint protection system should prevent malware and advanced threats from gaining entry into your plans and provide visibility into their full scope so that you can take action in real time.
Look for a solution with a high detection rate, low incidence of false positives, negligible impact on system performance, and easy management from a single interface. It can speed up investigations and reduce the number of tools used, enabling you to respond faster to cyberattacks.
Automation
Many organizations use a variety of point-product security tools to manage their endpoints. It adds to the complexity of managing threats, as each instrument has its management system and displays information differently.
A good endpoint protection solution should prevent cyberattacks without requiring extensive IT resources or blocking legitimate network traffic. Includes detecting malicious activity and spotting minor fluctuations in everyday behavior that indicate an attack.
Additionally, an ideal solution offers both on-premise and cloud deployment options. Cloud-based deployment provides flexibility, scalability, and real-time threat intelligence delivery. On-premise deployment satisfies stringent privacy requirements often required by government and finance sectors.
Control
The digital perimeter of modern businesses is much larger than ever before. That means more endpoints to protect, which can mean more opportunities for hackers to get in and steal data.
Look for a solution that monitors all files (even those that get deleted) across all endpoint devices and can deliver threat information and telemetry to a central management console to aid incident response.
Also, look for a solution with a low rate of false positives and negligible impact on system performance. IT central station users often note that security software can cause systems to slow down, which could be better for business productivity.
Reporting
Your endpoint security tools should provide clear and understandable alerts and reports. They should also be able to detect and prevent false positives without affecting system performance.
The time to detection for a breach is often 100 days or more, leaving the organization vulnerable to malware infiltration and theft of sensitive information. Look for a solution that can speed up time to detection by storing threat telemetry in the cloud and correlating it with other data sources.
Your next-gen EPP should have a fully integrated sandboxing option allowing you to submit suspicious files for real-time dynamic analysis. It should be easier and more convenient than a separate third-party sandboxing tool.
The best endpoint security tools are lightweight, easy to install, use, configure, and update. They should also not keep employees from doing their jobs by being a resource hog or slowing down systems.
Some organizations prefer agentless detection to avoid the risk of having agents installed on all endpoints and for visibility into devices that don’t support agent installation. Look for a solution to detect file-less malware, uncover polymorphic and zero-day attacks, and offer advanced threat telemetry and response capabilities. The answer should also deliver a low false positive rate.
Integration
Endpoints are one of the most significant points of network vulnerability. You want to protect them proactively with security tools that integrate well.
Look for a solution with sandboxing capability that can quickly assess malware without impacting the system. Security teams can be buried in alerts, so the management interface must be easy to use.
It would be best to consider how much the system will impact performance. You’ll hear about if system scans or updates cause users to experience slowdowns.
Scalability
The best endpoint security tools will do a lot to prevent and combat cyber attacks. But they should only eat up some system resources, become a performance hog, or overwhelm you with alerts.
Look for next-gen systems with built-in sandboxing to allow static and dynamic analysis of unknown files, limit false positives with noise cancellation technologies, and are easy to manage from a central console.
Also, look for the ability to send all threat data to a central incident management platform to aid in investigation, evaluation, and response to an attack.
Security
Cybersecurity is a significant concern for businesses, mainly because data is the heart of their business. Organizations must secure their computers and network servers to protect data from breaches.
The right endpoint security tools should quickly detect and respond to threats, reducing breach identification and remediation time from months (or even years) to minutes. They should also be able to corroborate alerts with threat intelligence, automate responses, and simplify incident management.
The best security solutions are integrated and streamlined, making them easy to deploy and manage. Look for cloud solutions that provide flexibility, scalability, and centralized control to make protecting endpoint devices easier.
Education
It takes much more than antivirus software and firewalls to keep your company’s technology, data, and employees safe from cyberattacks. Ad-hoc security will only create gaps that hackers will exploit.
The solution is a layered approach that covers your endpoints and various vulnerabilities.