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Extended Detection and Response (XDR)

XDR is an alternative to the reactive endpoint solutions that provide only single-layered visibility over specific points. Though these layer-specific solutions are quite effective, they deliver a large volume of alerts that require a considerable amount of time in their investigation, response, and management.

XDR is a solution environment that takes EDR to the next level. XDR provides a multi-level approach to monitoring and reacting to an organization's cybersecurity infrastructure through filling gaps and integrating deployed solutions into a common reporting platform.

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6 Security Predictions for 2021—And Why They Matter

Understanding industry trends is important for any IT professional, but it’s especially critical for anyone working in security. Teams need to be able to stay a step ahead of a wide range of security threats. With the global COVID-19 pandemic altering the way enterprise organizations do business and their employees work, it’s been a particularly challenging year to achieve this, all while ensuring that the new tools employees need to stay connected and productive don’t put individuals, or the enterprise, at risk. 

Just as the nature of our work style and lives have changed, so too has the threat landscape and the security tools we use to combat it. We’re constantly learning about emerging and ongoing security trends that will impact businesses and customers globally, but with breaches du jour, it’s often hard to know which are the most important. That said, there are six factors that IT and business leaders should keep top of mind to kick off the new year right. 

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5 Tips to Overcome the Cybersecurity Challenges of Remote Work

The remote workforce that the world is encountering has brought benefits and risks for companies and their employees. Some of the benefits are lower business expenses, employees' ability to work remotely, a more flexible schedule, and many others. Unfortunately, working remotely also comes with risks.

One such risk of remote work is a new cybersecurity threat landscape – the remote endpoint. Cybersecurity issues can be quite challenging and risky for employers and employees, especially if they lack the proper tools to mitigate them. As important as it is to have the correct remote work applications available to employees, it is equally essential to ensure that remote endpoints are appropriately protected. The most common problem that remote workers run into is cybersecurity threats. Cybersecurity issues can be quite challenging and risky for employers and employees, especially if they lack proper measures to prevent them. For starters, you might want to check out this list of remote work software to manage your virtual teams.

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The Growing Importance of Endpoint Security

What to make of this world driven by technology? Is it a benefit or a problem for society? The truth is, it’s both.

While technology is the backbone of greater innovation, growth, and efficiency, it also opens the road to potential security breaches and other types of cyber attacks.

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Endpoint Management and Security In a Work-From-Home World

Network administrators have long been stretched thin in their attempts to maintain global endpoint security settings, configurations, and patching. Now that most, if not all, of their organization’s employees are connecting remotely, the job has become even more difficult.

Once end-users move beyond the relative safety of their office buildings, they’re essentially out in the wild. They might be using their own devices rather than standard-issue machines to connect to the corporate network, and conforming to IT policies is probably not their highest priority right now. Perhaps their kids are playing on their devices, or maybe they are surfing the net in their downtime, taking corporate-maintained endpoints to new, potentially dangerous sites. And these are just some of the new complications IT administrators face on the end-user side. It becomes even more complex when you consider the implications of widespread remote connectivity on network performance.

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What Is Endpoint Security and Why Is it Necessary Today?

Introduction

Also called endpoint protection in the world of network security, endpoint security describes the practices and methodologies adopted for the safeguarding of corporate computer systems and networks that can be remotely accessed via wireless gadgets (called client devices), such as laptops, mobiles, desktops, tablets, notebooks and the like.

General components of an endpoint security system include client software and security software. The former is installed separately on every wireless device that is employed to access the corporate network from a remote location. Security software, on the other hand, is a part of the security system that is positioned on a gateway or server and which can be accessed and managed centrally.