May 19 2021

Endpoint security: How to shore up practices for a safer remote enterprise

Category: Endpoint security,Information SecurityDISC @ 9:07 am

In the modern cloud-based application era, securing hardware is often neglected, so the volume of unmanaged devices noted above is not surprising. Endpoint management is hard, it’s boring, it’s time-consuming — but it’s nevertheless extremely important to a robust security strategy.

Why? Bad actors know that machines aren’t getting configured and maintained at the rate at which they should. This makes them ripe for exploitation. One of the easiest ways to attack corporate networks is through a machine that is not configured correctly or that hasn’t downloaded a patch to shore up a certain vulnerability.

Endpoint management: Scaling for a new world

VPNs have been under significant strain throughout the pandemic, and bandwidth is at a premium. This is part of the reason we’re seeing such rapid migration to the cloud. While there are numerous benefits to this move, it still doesn’t protect actual endpoints. To do this, regardless of environment, you need to find an endpoint management solution that can scale rapidly and not affect network performance.

This requires a novel approach to drive continuous compliance and configuration management across the enterprise. Of note, the latest peer-to-peer solutions can check the configuration of local or remote endpoints, diagnose problems, and/or remediate any issues found. Because of the nature of peer-to-peer, these solutions can conduct routine and advanced endpoint management at massive scale, addressing hundreds of thousands of endpoints without bandwidth throttling or hindering network performance.

Workers don’t even realize their systems are being updated. Being able to protect endpoints at scale without degrading the user experience or getting in the way of business processes is a game-changer in the remote world. It means that you can institute or return to a regular endpoint management schedule.

Leave a Reply

You must be logged in to post a comment. Login now.