Three Standout Capabilities of ARCON | Endpoint Privilege Management

Overview

Be it on-prem or hybrid set-up, organizations continuously face multiple demands from multiple end-users. Once the number of end-users proliferates, the risk of unwanted access magnifies. To manage, control and monitor end-users, endpoint security solutions work as both restrictive and reliable security measures to build a ring-fence around the endpoint privileges. It has been observed that endpoint privilege abuse is the reason behind many IT incidents such as –

• Data breach
• Insider-attacks
• Cyber-espionage
• Application abuse
• Social Engineering

ARCON | Endpoint Privilege Management (EPM) solution in this regard works as a centralized solution to ensure a rule and role-based access to business-critical applications. But there are three standout capabilities that give ARCON | EPM a different edge compared to the traditional endpoint security solutions.

ARCON | EPM – A robust solution for data governance

According to Forbes, 70% of the most successful data breaches originate at the endpoint. As there are more instances of hybrid work conditions, sometimes organizations are forced to allow end-users to perform critical IT tasks from their endpoints with minimum restriction. As a result, the access control risks rise and subsequently data breach threats also increase.

While Data governance refers to the overall management of the availability, usability, integrity, and security of data used in an enterprise, ARCON | EPM ensures that every endpoint in the organization adheres to the applicable processes, policies, and standards so that enterprise data is managed appropriately throughout its lifecycle. This includes everything from how data is collected and stored to how it is accessed, used, and shared.

These data security traits are seldom discussed while endpoint security is interpreted. Data contextualization and data governance capabilities of ARCON | EPM helps IT security pros with adequate insights of the amount of enterprise data that are exposed to the endpoints. There are three stand-out capabilities of ARCON | EPM that enforce data governance in enterprise IT infrastructure –

• Data Intellect
• File Integrity Monitoring (FIM)
• Data Loss Prevention (DLP)

Data Intellect: Organizations generate gigabytes of business data regularly. Data Intellect builds an impenetrable circumference around data and builds a contextual security layer around the data. It

enables the classification of data, itemization of the exposed data, categorization of the critical data, and understanding of the ‘where’ and ‘what’ of data. With this, it provides actionable insights on data that is useful for forensic analysis and overall information security.

File Integrity Monitoring (FIM): The File Integrity Monitoring (FIM) capability of ARCON | EPM can track unauthorized file changes on user devices in real time and processes, track unauthorized changes and keep a track of file history, and roll back if needed. This level of data governance and lifecycle management is unusual in any traditional EPM product and hence, is admired by most IT security pros, especially in the hybrid work environment where there is continuous data flow.

Data Loss Prevention (DLP): The whole idea of endpoint security can go haywire if the end-users can easily target confidential business information by using removable storage devices. ARCON | EPM’s DLP feature mitigates security vulnerabilities by restricting mobile devices or even mobile Bluetooth connections and Bluetooth transfers. The USB restriction feature prevents copying of any sort of information/file/folder from the endpoint to USB and vice versa.

Conclusion

In a nutshell, ARCON | Endpoint Privilege Management (EPM) is a complete solution well-equipped with features pertaining to both endpoint security and data governance capabilities. It provides insights to IT admins with critical data classification, and its level of exposure to the end-users so that endpoint restrictions are assessed and enforced.