Your cybersecurity must emphasize visibility into all of your endpoints.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\nBoth of these points relate to endpoint monitoring and EDR. Here\u2019s how. <\/span><\/p>\nWhy Endpoint Monitoring and EDR?<\/b><\/h2>\n
Cybersecurity experts and decision-makers continue to struggle with the truth of digital perimeters in modern times. Unfortunately, no preventative InfoSec capability can defend against 100% of all malware attacks. Eventually, something will penetrate your network\u2019s perimeter.<\/span><\/p>\nMyriad reasons explain why. Hackers continue to refine and evolve their digital threats (hence the development of fileless malware). The enterprise perimeter continues to become porous as businesses undergo cloud adoption and digital transformation. <\/span><\/p>\nAdditionally, the increase of mobile devices and IoT devices can create unmonitored dark areas in your IT environment. From these concealed areas, hackers can perform island hopping attacks, conduct lateral movements, or plant dwelling threats.<\/span><\/p>\nOf course, you shouldn\u2019t consider your digital perimeter irrelevant because of this. Even if you can\u2019t prevent 100% of cyber attacks, you can get pretty close. So long as you continually patch and upgrade your digital perimeter, you can deflect most attacks and dissuade most malicious actors.<\/span><\/p>\nWhat Endpoint Monitoring?<\/b><\/h2>\n
Every endpoint connecting to your IT environment serves as a gateway, both for your legitimate users and threat actors. <\/span><\/p>\nUsually, enterprises recognize this, at least subconsciously. However, they tend to neglect to take next philosophical step from this epiphany; namely, every enterprise endpoint requires the same level of protection. <\/span><\/p>\nOf course, this means mandating every endpoint connecting to your network maintains a consistent level of endpoint security. Often maintaining that consistency proves easier said than done. <\/span><\/p>\nFor example, say you have a strong bring-your-own-device (BYOD) culture. Your IT security team must require each user to register their devices and install your endpoint security before granting access. With the proliferation of mobile devices, you should make this policy a priority.<\/span><\/p>\nFor endpoint monitoring, protecting each endpoint also requires recognizing each device as its own identity. Yes, you should consider each device separate from the user who typically uses it (as bizarre as that may sound).<\/span><\/p>\nThus, endpoint monitoring allows your security team to monitor, collect, and analyze your endpoint behaviors. It establishes baselines behaviors to evaluate whether it ever acts abnormally and can alert your security team promptly to investigate. <\/span><\/p>\nA strong digital perimeter requires strong preventative components. This can mean antivirus and firewalls. However, it also means recognizing possible endpoint penetration as soon as it happens to halt malicious activities in its earliest stages. Therefore, you need to consider deploying endpoint monitoring in your enterprise network. <\/span><\/p>\nWhat is EDR? <\/b><\/h2>\n
You can consider endpoint detection and response (EDR) a branch of endpoint monitoring. However, they aren\u2019t quite the same. Endpoint monitoring adds another preventative layer to your digital perimeter. EDR supplements the digital perimeter by catching cyber attacks which do penetrate the IT environment. <\/span><\/p>\nEDR allows your IT security team to collect, record, and store endpoint activity. In turn, they can use this data to detect attacks and dwelling threats. In some ways, EDR resembles the endpoint security equivalent of SIEM solutions. It even provides a centralized incident response interface for easy alert investigation and supplements it with threat detection and contextualization.<\/span><\/p>\nMoreover, EDR does work with your endpoint monitoring to block attacks in the pre-execution stage. Yet it works best as a failsafe for your digital perimeter.<\/span><\/p>\nFinal Endpoint Security Thoughts<\/b><\/h3>\n
Do you remember when the digital perimeter consisted of a bunch of desktop towers on your business property? When you could go out and actually count the number of devices which made up your digital presence? <\/span><\/p>\nWe do too. Unfortunately, those days are long gone. <\/span><\/p>\nIf you want to stay competitive in the digital marketplace, your business needs to adapt to the cloud, to the presence of IoT devices, and mobile proliferation. Each of these requires taking on a certain amount of digital risk\u2014risks which could spell your business\u2019 end. <\/span><\/p>\nUnfortunately, legacy endpoint security solutions just can\u2019t provide the protection you need to manage these risks. It lacks the visibility and threat intelligence necessary to recognize threats in the pre-execution stage or malicious behaviors on the endpoint.<\/span><\/p>\nEndpoint monitoring and EDR are two next-generation endpoint security capabilities which help increase visibility into all of your network devices; with them, you can prevent hackers from exploiting the dark areas of your IT environment. <\/span><\/p>\nWe asked in the title \u201cwhat do you need?\u201d The question, it turns out, is rhetorical. The answer is that your enterprise needs all of them to stay secure against malware and external threat actors.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div><\/p>\n
If you want to learn more about these next-generation endpoint security capabilities, be sure to check out our 2019 Buyer\u2019s Guide. We list the top vendors in the field, their key capabilities, and our Bottom Line for each!<\/span><\/p>\n
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