The Essential Elements of Comprehensive Endpoint Security

For today’s computing environments, there is little question that endpoint security is a required component of an overall enterprise security strategy.1 On one hand, various trends fostering user mobility ensure that many endpoints will frequently be exposed directly to the Internet. On the other hand, even when they are operating on the LAN, endpoints are still being exposed to numerous threats, both from other internal sources as well as from external sources that are all too often demonstrating the ability to penetrate or otherwise circumvent an enterprise’s perimeter defenses. It is not surprising, however, that establishing a comprehensive endpoint security solution is a complicated undertaking. A number of factors, such as accounting for unmanaged nodes, increase the scope of the challenge. In addition, selecting and stitching together an appropriate set of countermeasures often depends on navigating a complex and proliferating landscape of applicable point products.

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