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6 Rules for Securing Your Endpoints

6 Simple Rules for Securing Your Endpoints

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6 Simple Rules for Securing Your Endpoints

It's never been more critical to manage and secure your endpoints. Here are six important rules for protecting your organization from IT security threats.

1. Always Be Patching

Managing software updates—and specifically patching endpoints—secures your organization from known threats. The appearance of new endpoint types—such as Internet of Things (IoT), Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), and other operating system and software vulnerabilities—requires countless patches. Always be patching if you want to stay ahead of the bad actors.

2. Seek Out All Endpoints

Think about your company’s network—how many devices are out there? Is the number of staggering? You had better give it some thought, because endpoints account for the vast majority of security breaches—estimates put the number at about 70 percent. And if you don’t know you have them, you can’t secure them.

3. Stay Current

You must adapt to the increasing complexity of hackers and their cyberattacks. Bad actors never sleep—they continually work to improve their cyberattacks, constantly evolving the threat landscape. Your organization, therefore, must deploy endpoint security solutions that will keep up with the deluge of malware that can be expected in the future.

4. Be Resilient

Experts suggest that companies must aim to be resilient, assuming that breaches are inevitable. Since endpoints are said to account for about 70 percent of all breaches, being able to find and fix an attack at an endpoint while continuing to operate your business effectively is the key to resilience. A threat or breach to an endpoint must not be allowed to demobilize your entire business.

5. Be Strategic

Many organizations have an inconsistent approach to endpoint security. Companies, today, must manage endpoint security strategically and begin to fully comprehend the risks associated with all endpoints. Not doing so can result in inadequacies in processes and procedures leaving endpoints open to attack and breaches.

6. Make It a Priority

Overall, endpoint security and cybersecurity need to become a priority in your organization’s business plans. Endpoint security doesn’t just protect your business—it preserves your reputation, reassures your customers, and streamlines your business processes. Without the necessary prioritization that cybersecurity demands, your endpoint security will most likely fail.

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4 Top Endpoint Protection Trends

Four Top Endpoint Protection Trends

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Four Top Endpoint Protection Trends

Endpoint protection has always been a vibrant marketplace. From the early days of intense anti-virus competition to the security package wars between McAfee, Symantec, and Trend Micro, this has never been a dull area. And as the security threat horizon continually shifts in unforeseen directions, endpoint protection has stayed in the spotlight.

Endpoint protection now takes in a wide range of tools including anti-malware, spam filtering, endpoint detection and response (EDR), patch management, data loss protection, vulnerability management, mobile threat defense, ransomware protection, and others. Some vendors offer several of these tools inside their packages; others try to provide them all.

Here are four of the top trends in endpoint protection

Smartphone and BYOD Support

The latest endpoint protection tools and platforms now offer much better smartphone and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) support than they ever did. As a result, BYOD policies have gotten stronger, enabling more efficient and streamlined workflows between mobile and enterprise applications.

Some tools, for example, make it possible to deploy apps and accounts securely to personal devices, as well as give IT some management and enablement features for end users.

Endpoint Management Meets Patch Management

IT managers are so pushed for time and so limited in resources that they don’t have time to move from screen to screen and app to app as they address the different facets of endpoint management. They need automation and efficiency. That’s why it is now possible to find patch management and endpoint protection being combined in Syxsense and other tools.

This is good news for IT. Folding patch management into device management ultimately means better security as endpoint patching no longer remains an area of neglect.

Platforms Converge

This trend of endpoint management being combined with patch management is part of a larger convergence trend within the world of IT management and security. With threats becoming so virulent ransomware forever changing the cybersecurity landscape, and threats becoming increasingly blended, it is not enough to address one area such as endpoint anti-virus or patch management of devices.

Convergence is driving the market and is leading to all-encompassing packages that bring together patch management, vulnerability scanning, remediation of threats, general IT management, and Mobile Device Management (MDM).

Such platforms are particularly needed in light of recent vulnerabilities such as PrintNightmare. To remediate this threat, IT had to conduct a series of unifying actions: patch endpoints and then remediate two separate security misconfigurations before the issue was fully resolved. IT no longer has the time to fiddle with several systems to accomplish such tasks. They want to have one automated system that takes care of all of it.

Convergence to the Nth Degree

If anything, the tendency toward convergence is accelerating. Gartner is struggling to come up with enough acronyms to cover the amount of change and convergence taking place right now. There is Unified Endpoint Management (UEM), Unified Endpoint Security (UES), and some are now coining terms such as Unified Security and Endpoint Management (USEM), which brings together the best of UEM and UES in one package.

This new class of USEM tools offers management of computers and mobile devices through an employee-centric view of endpoint devices running Windows, Google, Android, Chrome OS, Apple macOS, iPadOS, and iOS. They enable IT to apply data protection, device configuration, and usage policies that simplify endpoint management. By consolidating disparate tools and streamlining processes across devices and operating systems, deeper integration and greater protection are achieved while reducing the total cost of ownership (TCO) of endpoint device management and security.

Syxsense Enterprise brings the best of UEM and UES together. It is the world’s first Unified Security and Endpoint Management (USEM) solution, delivering real-time vulnerability monitoring and instant remediation for every single endpoint in your environment, as well as IT management across all endpoints. This represents the future of threat prevention. Breaches can now be detected and remediated within one endpoint solution. It can scan for all vulnerabilities on any device, block communication from an infected device to the internet, isolate endpoints, and kill malicious processes before they spread. Syxsense Enterprise can automatically prioritize and deploy OS and third-party patches to all major operating systems, as well as Windows 10 feature updates. IT and security teams can use Syxsense Enterprise to collaborate on the detection and closing of attack vectors. It offers management, control, and security for any and all desktops, laptops, servers, virtual machines, and mobile devices.

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What You Need To Know: June Patch Tuesday 2022

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What You Need To Know: June Patch Tuesday 2022

Get the latest Microsoft updates for June Patch Tuesday 2022 where Rob Brown (top) our Chief Customer Officer and JC (bottom) our Senior Solutions Architect, discuss the most urgent patches and priorities for the month. Sign up to hear the most up-to-date patch insights.

What to Expect

Reduce Your Attack Surface

Security Scanning

Patching is only half the job. Find out how to stop brute force attacks.

Antivirus

Confirm antivirus is installed and running with updated definitions.

Quarantine

Quarantine and troubleshoot a device you suspect has been breached.

Patch Deployment

Check and deploy patches for any zero-day vulnerabilities.

Powerful Features

Experience the Benefits

Advanced Threat Detection

Scan for software vulnerabilities, security compliance violations, and open threat vectors with real-time response capabilities.

Comprehensive Patch Management

Automatically deploy OS and third-party patches as well as Windows 10 Feature Updates for Microsoft, Mac, and Linux devices.

100% Endpoint Visibility

Manage and secure all endpoints inside and outside your network with coverage for all major operating systems and IoT devices.

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July 2022 Patch Tuesday

What You Need To Know: July Patch Tuesday 2022

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Syxsense Webcast

Get the latest Microsoft updates for July’s Patch Tuesday 2022. Rob Brown (top video) our Chief Customer Officer and Jon Cassell (bottom video) our Senior Solutions Architect, discuss the most urgent patches and priorities for the month,  R/ob will cover Microsoft patches and Jon will cover your Third-Party patches.

Click Here for the write-up of all the patches.

 

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Powerful Features

Experience the Benefits

Advanced Threat Detection

Scan for software vulnerabilities, security compliance violations, and open threat vectors with real-time response capabilities.

Comprehensive Patch Management

Automatically deploy OS and third-party patches as well as Windows 10 Feature Updates for Microsoft, Mac, and Linux devices.

100% Endpoint Visibility

Manage and secure all endpoints inside and outside your network with coverage for all major operating systems and IoT devices.

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