Nearly every company today is grappling with a tremendous increase in the number of endpoints linking to their network. On top of users' gadgets – like smartphones, laptops, and desktops – there are more and more IoT-enabled systems in smart cities and smart factories. This is quickly turning into an information technology disaster. The fact is that there has never been a greater need for enterprise endpoint security like today. We continue our endpoint security series by discussing some of the numerous benefits of endpoint security systems.
It is estimated that up to 70% of all known data breaches start at an endpoint. This is no surprise because endpoints are one of the weakest sections of any network. There are enormous amounts of application and operating vulnerabilities that can be exploited via endpoints. A single user can have various endpoints that can be successfully exploited.