The banking Trojan lands on your network and seeks out endpoints, data backups, and network shares onto which it deploys its secondary ransomware payload. By the time a human user has any idea what’s going on, the damage is already done. Compare this with an on-premises solution: You own the data and the hardware, but it’s up to your in-house IT team to maintain it.
As your business grows there’s no need to staff up or buy more hardware to keep your endpoint protection running, just buy more licenses and let your endpoint protection software provider do the work. Cloud-based solutions are quick to deploy, easy to manage, and scalable. While early forms of endpoint protection were designed to be installed locally, or on-premises, modern day versions are built for the cloud.
In turn, stopping them from getting root access and remotely executing code on the endpoint Cloud-based centralized management Exploit mitigationĪ strong exploit mitigation layer uses various application hardening techniques to stop attackers from exploiting software vulnerabilities in an endpoint. That said, it’s another welcome layer of threat blocking that doesn’t add a lot of bloat to a program. Signatures, however, are not effective against zero-day attacks. Signatures are good at stopping less sophisticated attacks without a lot of fuss. Behavioral analysis stops them Known attack detectionĪlso known as signature matching, known attack detection compares potentially malicious programs against a list of known threats. Those actions and actions like that are both good indicators for malware. Take, for example, your email client suddenly spamming all your contacts or macro exploits running shell commands in Microsoft Office. With behavioral analysis, however, the machine is specifically looking for benign applications being used in abnormal ways to spread malware. In both cases, the machine is looking for patterns of behavior indicative of malware. The difference between machine learning and behavioral analysis is subtle.
And the more endpoints there are, there’s more data to learn from, and the smarter the machine gets at classifying threats. In short, if it acts like malware, it probably is malware.
As it applies to endpoint protection, the machine can analyze the data it’s receiving back from a group of endpoints and use those insights to determine if a particular program is malicious. In turn, the machine can begin classifying new data in accordance with the patterns it’s learned. Machine learning is an algorithm that, when fed enough data, allows a machine with endpoint protection to start recognizing patterns in a given data set. These features both define how endpoint security works and, in some cases, differentiate it from consumer-oriented antivirus or anti-malware-even some early forms of endpoint protection too. Modern endpoint protection (or endpoint security) has eight key features. Endpoint security services work to harden endpoints against potential cyberattacks. It could be through an exploit, phishing attack, spyware, Trojan, malspam, or other form of malware.
Every endpoint is a soft spot that cybercriminals can take advantage of and gain unauthorized access to the network.
In a perfect world, employees in the office and working remotely (through a VPN, for example) should be able to log and get their job done safely, but that isn’t always the case. When you connect to a network, you’re creating a new endpoint. What is an endpoint?Īn endpoint is any device (be it a laptop, phone, tablet, or server) connected to a secure business network. Through predictive threat detection and remediation, comprehensive endpoint protection ensures your team continues productivity while keeping your network endpoints safe. As today’s threat landscape evolves, traditional antivirus software no longer provides necessary coverage against malware, zero-day threats, and sophisticated cyber-attacks.Įndpoint protection platforms (EPP) encompass cloud-based, next-gen antivirus software that include multiple features to help share data across a suite of endpoint security technlogies. Modern-day endpoint security solutions eliminate the risk of data loss and operational disruption to your business by proactively blocking malicious threats. Endpoint security protects end-user devices through a process that leverages threat intelligence to detect, block, and remediate cybersecurity threats in your network.