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Overview
Endpoints are primary targets of an increasingly sophisticated set of attacks. This is due to expansion of attack surface created by ever-increasing number of endpoints. It is not just the numbers, end-users working from remote locations also multiply risks.
Today, endpoint security has taken a different avenue as per technology trends. Endpoint security has been there for decades, but transformation in usage of devices and evolution of new threat patterns have triggered the development of new endpoint security techniques. New service providers have emerged with novel approaches to deal with endpoint attacks, while traditional vendors have upgraded their solutions and implemented new techniques to deal with the latest threats.
According to a study by the Ponemon Institute, 68% of organizations have experienced one or more endpoint attacks that successfully compromised data and/or their IT infrastructure. The same report found that 68% of IT professionals found that the frequency of endpoint attacks had increased since 2023. Hence, the crux of endpoint security is worth pondering over.
The essence of Endpoint Security
One of the critical components of data-centric security is securing endpoints. If organizations show a lackadaisical attitude towards endpoint security, the consequences are catastrophic. Despite having several security measures in place to secure their servers and data centers, organizations give inadequate emphasis on endpoints that carry significant security risks as endpoints provide access to business-critical applications. Endpoint privileges are granted to conduct IT tasks by securely configuring, patching, and managing those endpoints’ OSs and applications.
A compromised insider or any sort of social engineering can exploit endpoints to gain critical information. Some wise and cautious steps can enforce endpoint security effectively.
- No Unmonitored Endpoints: Continuous monitoring of the endpoints builds a security cordon around every endpoint that helps IT administrators to detect and identify suspicious activity. It triggers red-flag alerts and draws attention of the administrators to take immediate restrictive measures.
- Endpoint Governance: A centralized admin console for managing multiple endpoints such as Windows, Linux and MacOS is essential to ensure strong governance and security. It builds a rule-based access policy for every critical application and allows IT administrators to segregate users based on their roles.
- Endpoint Governance: A centralized admin console for managing multiple endpoints such as Windows, Linux and MacOS is essential to ensure strong governance and security. It builds a rule-based access policy for every critical application and allows IT administrators to segregate users based on their roles.
- Privilege Elevation on Demand: What could happen if any user requests access to any application to perform any task and the request is granted? To complete a task, there could be risks of unauthorized access. With the help of “just-in-time” privilege elevation, IT administrators can enforce one-time access to any application based on roles and user profiles.
Moreover, the task’s duration can be prescheduled, and privileged access rights are revoked immediately after it is accomplished.
Why is ARCON | Endpoint Privilege Management (EPM) the best fit for endpoint security use cases?
ARCON | Endpoint Privilege Management (EPM) is a robust endpoint security solution that helps organizations to build a comprehensive security layer around endpoints. It ensures that there is adequate IT oversight over the endpoints and business-critical applications are accessed in a restricted and controlled environment. With the help of centralized governance, it ensures that every access to applications is rule and role based.
ARCON | EPM is a 2-in-1 solution for enterprise data protection capabilities and flagging red alerts of any and every malicious user. Here is a set of features that address both simultaneously and continuously.
Get Anomalous Activity Alerts through ‘Reporting’ and ‘Alert Trends’: ARCON | EPM provides audit trails of each endpoint privileged activity and generates reports whenever there is any audit requirement. It helps the SRM (Security and Risk Management) team to be audit-ready by providing customized and detailed analytics of every endpoint access to the target systems. As a result, the managers and auditors can assess the organization’s regulatory compliance status at any given time. At the same time, it monitors endpoint privileges and triggers red-flag alerts in case of suspicious activity.
Protecting Confidential Enterprise Data through multiple DLP features: The endpoint security can be compromised if the end-users can easily target confidential information using any removable storage device. ARCON | EPM’s DLP feature mitigates security vulnerabilities by restricting personalized devices from connecting any system in enterprise network.
ARCON | EPM assists the IT security team with MFA (Multi-factor Authentication) that prevents unauthorized access and prevents data misuse. It also builds Just-In-Time (JIT) privilege elevation measures that help to administer endpoints as per roles and requirements.
Conclusion
In a nutshell, ARCON’s Endpoint Privilege Management (EPM) solution seamlessly manages and controls ‘n’ number of endpoints prevailing in enterprise networks that access multiple systems/ applications regularly. ARCON | EPM does risk assessment (unauthorized access/ espionage) of suspicious insiders and prevents data breach/ data exfiltration round the clock.
