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April 06, 2023

Due to the emergence of high bandwidth, low latency 5G internet, there is a significant amount of increase in devices that are helping businesses across the globe transform. But this increase in devices is also one of the fundamental attack surfaces for cyber criminals who are looking for an open-door entry into their network. This new entry of devices into the organizational network has presented a business risk for organizations worldwide with a wide range of endpoints being vulnerable to threats.

According to a Ponemon Institute report, over 68% of organizations have experienced more than one attack which has led to them facing a huge data loss and compromise of their IT infrastructure. Therefore, in today’s world, it has become imperative for organizations to step up their cybersecurity ball game in order to proactively be prepared against such cyber threats and criminals.

Before we delve into endpoint security it is important to know what endpoints are and how security has evolved over time to endpoint security and a full-blown team of experts at SOCs who take care of the cybersecurity environment of an organization.

What are endpoints?

Endpoints are every workstation that is used by a user connected to the organizational network. They can also be the server and devices connected to the network where applications are installed. They are the assets that are at the last touch point of a network they are connected to. Endpoints may not only be limited to workstations, desktops, and laptops but they also include tablets, smartphones, servers, POS systems, and BYOD devices.

How have organizations implemented security in the past?

In the past, organizations used to have a firewall in place that would act as a gatekeeper for organizations managing permissions and doing the job of protecting the perimeter network and safeguarding the network from external threats that emanated from the internet. But over time they faced a particular shortcoming of this system which is the inability to detect threats orchestrated by bad actors horizontally from one endpoint to another. And as more and more devices joined the network, it became a herculean task to pinpoint the source of the threat. This led to the emergence of endpoint protection or what we today call endpoint security, which protected every endpoint.

What is endpoint security and management?

In order to protect the most vital assets or endpoints of the organization, a secure framework is deployed that consists of multiple tools, and experts that make sure that these endpoints are safeguarded at all costs. This can also be called endpoint security. Managing endpoint devices is as important as securing them, because, as the number of devices increases, the landscape of potential threats that could occur also increases. This is endpoint management. This is the main reason why more and more organizations are looking toward centrally managing endpoints. Another aspect that is often overlooked is the fact that endpoints’ security weakens over time due to their hardware limitations, increasing the need for more advanced cybersecurity.

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