The endpoint detection and response (EDR) markets are rapidly growing because security and risk management leaders are seeking adaptive security infrastructure.
Endpoints protection represents a crucial area of the ongoing war between cybersecurity professionals and cybercriminals. To protect the various endpoints that businesses use, they need to incorporate next-generation endpoint security solutions into their security strategy.
What is Next-Generation Endpoint Security?
The term next-generation endpoint security was coined by new vendors looking for a way to distinguish their products from existing endpoint protection solutions. These next-generation solutions are ones that reject some types of signatures and use new technologies. Which new technologies used is different from one product to another.
On the market currently, there are next-generation endpoint security solutions that offer pre-execution analysis based on machine learning, sandbox analysis, endpoint isolation in the event of a detection of suspicious activity, and retrospective detection. What blurs some classification lines, though, is that several of these new technologies are also being incorporated into traditional endpoint protection products.
By and large, a next-generation endpoint security solution should analyze processes, connections, behaviours, and changes to identify activities that could be an attack. It doesn’t look for signatures of known malware like traditional anti-virus software does. It should be an all-in-one tool that assists a company. It will detect, prevent, and respond appropriately to threats. It works with unknown malware and will detect zero-day exploits that have no known signature. Another key component of a next-generation endpoint security solution is that it gives an organization visibility at every endpoint.
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Today’s Threat Landscape Explored
IT security is a need in today’s economy, not a want. Businesses need to protect themselves from threats of an online nature. If they aren’t sufficiently protected, they can suffer losses of a great magnitude.
Cybercrime is a huge threat for businesses. It was the second most reported crime in 2016 and has always been in the top five since it first appeared in the Global Economic Crime Survey in 2011. Since its appearance on the survey, it had steadily increased in frequency and now sits at 32%.
Even though security solutions are a need, most organizations aren’t prepared to combat cyberattacks. Thirty-one percent of organizations have no plan at all and, of those, more than half don’t believe they need one. If a cyber crisis should hit, only 40% of businesses have IT staff that are fully trained to act as first responders.
The three areas concern for endpoint security are:
- Finding vulnerabilities on endpoints;
- Detecting indicators of compromise;
- Performing incident remediation.
What next-generation endpoint security solutions bring to the table is better technology to combat online threats. They are a proactive solution that compliments a security strategy instead of a reactive one employed by traditional solutions. With its increased visibility, detection, and prevention capabilities, a next-generation endpoint security solution can stop an attack before a devastating data breach. The threat landscape will be no match for it.
Companies are becoming increasingly distributed, meaning they have more endpoints that can be targeted by cyber threats. Organizations need to worry about more than just viruses and malware, and they need to protect more than just their network. Next-generation endpoint security solutions protect it all. They are a must-have solution that companies need to employ to keep their business assets safe and secure.
