A Wake-Up Call for Endpoint Security: EPP in 2024

The Importance of EPP

With cyber attacks continuing unabated, neglecting endpoint security is dangerous and potentially catastrophic. Organisations must adopt reliable endpoint security solutions to prevent threat actors from hijacking business systems or stealing sensitive data.

Kaspersky

The recent decision by the US government to ban the sales of Kaspersky antivirus software due to its ties to Russia underscores the importance of a trustworthy software supply chain. US Commerce Secretary Gina Raimondo stated, "Russia has shown time and again they have the capability and intent to exploit Russian companies, like Kaspersky Lab, to collect and weaponise sensitive US information."

The primary risk the US is concerned about is the close relationship between the Russian government and Kaspersky. It is feared that the Russian government could commandeer the software (through a relationship with Kaspersky) to spy on individuals, or companies, in the US. For example, they could use it to steal data from devices running Kaspersky software or steal credentials for online accounts accessed through such devices.

Another big risk specifically for US customers of Kaspersky is that once the ban comes into force, the software will no longer receive updates. Frequent updates are especially critical for antivirus software, as these updates contain the latest intelligence about threats and are essential to maintaining detection accuracy. 

This move highlights the importance of choosing security vendors with transparent and reliable practices who operate in jurisdictions that adhere to the rule of law. The exploitation of cybersecurity products by nation states for espionage or sabotage poses a significant risk to national security and the security of enterprise data.

Why Endpoint Protection Platforms (EPP) are Superior to Traditional Antivirus Solutions

Traditional antivirus (AV) software, while still useful, is no longer sufficient to protect against the most sophisticated threats. Endpoint Protection Platforms (EPP) offer a more comprehensive and effective solution.

1. Comprehensive Threat Detection

Traditional Antivirus solutions primarily focus on detecting known malware using signature-based detection methods, comparing files/processes against a database of known threats. While effective against older, well-documented malware, this approach falls short against new or unknown threats.

EPP: Endpoint Protection Platforms utilise multiple detection techniques. EPPs can identify and mitigate zero-day attacks and sophisticated threats that traditional AV might miss. This multi-layered approach ensures a higher detection rate and better protection.

2. Behavioural Analysis and Machine Learning

Traditional Antivirus: Relies heavily on known virus definitions and signatures. It cannot learn and adapt to new threats dynamically.

EPP: EPPs incorporate machine learning and behavioural analysis to understand the normal behaviour patterns of applications and users. When deviations occur, these systems can identify potential threats even if they have not been previously encountered and it is this predictive capability that significantly enhances security.

3. Comprehensive Endpoint Management

Traditional Antivirus: Focuses mainly on detecting and removing malware from individual devices. It doesn’t provide a holistic view of the endpoint ecosystem.

EPP: Offers centralised management of all endpoints, providing a unified view of security status across the entire network. This centralised approach simplifies policy enforcement, monitoring, and threat response, ensuring all devices adhere to security protocols.

4. Integrated Response and Remediation

Traditional Antivirus: Typically limited to quarantining or deleting infected files. It doesn’t offer in-depth remediation capabilities.

EPP: Includes automated response and remediation tools that can isolate affected endpoints, changes made by malware, and restore systems to their pre-attack state. This minimises downtime and helps maintain business continuity.

Endpoint Protection Platforms offer a more robust, multi-faceted approach to security, incorporating advanced detection, prevention, and response capabilities. With features like behavioural analysis, machine learning, and comprehensive endpoint management, EPPs provide a higher level of protection, ensuring the security and integrity of your organisation's data and systems. 

For businesses looking to safeguard their digital assets effectively, investing in an EPP solution is a strategic imperative.

Why SenseOn is the Trusted Choice

SenseOn’s innovative approach to endpoint security offers businesses the robust protection they need to safeguard their sensitive information and maintain operational integrity. 

• World-class Protection: Independent testing demonstrates SenseOn's outstanding performance in detection and response accuracy, being able to detect and respond to even previously unseen threats.

• Network visibility and threat detection: Increase your chance of finding threats with advanced network visibility and network threat detection by deploying our endpoint software, the Universal Sensor. It turns your endpoints into a distributed NDR without hardware deployments, network configuration changes or remote worker blindspots.

• AI Triangulation: Reduce IT and security workloads with alert triage automation that correlates, deduplicates and prioritises security incidents for you.

• Security and IT telemetry: Get hands-on with rich security and IT telemetry from across your endpoints, networks and cloud environments to support compliance, IT hygiene tasks and threat hunting.

SenseOn offers a next-generation security solution that combines powerful endpoint protection with advanced machine learning and AI analysis. SenseOn’s automated threat detection, investigation, and response platform helps companies stop endpoint attacks both on and off enterprise networks, all without burdening IT teams. 

This proactive approach ensures comprehensive protection and peace of mind in an increasingly complex cybersecurity landscape.

In a world where trust and reliability in cybersecurity vendors are paramount, SenseOn provides a secure, transparent, and dependable solution.