Endpoint and endpoint technologies are more actively used in cybersecurity and are crucial topics in the security world. So, let’s understand what we mean by the endpoint.
The Endpoint is a technical term used for all clients that we use in the digital world whether it is laptops, desktops, phones, tablets and so on, these are the endpoints.
And technologies or software that is installed on those endpoints which protects the devices from harmful or malicious attacks.
Earlier people and organizations spend their security budget and time in protecting networks using technologies like firewalls, routers and network filtering which is not proper protection it’s just like securing the outer shell of the coconut it’s hard on the outside, but soft on the inside. But now people and organisations not using that coconut structure on their endpoints.
Now they have to create and use such technologies on the endpoint that have multiple layers for an attacker which is hard to bypass.
so, security should be like an onion with multiple tough layers to bite through.
After the evolution of WIFI and the internet over cell networks, our devices move around with us and lose the protection of the coconut structure.
Our endpoints, laptop, tablet and phone, don’t stay on our home network or organization’s network which may invite hackers to attack. So those days are gone.
Now World is changing, and that’s why endpoint protection is more important because it moves with the assets or endpoints and protects them and it also adds extra layers of protection like an onion.
Security must be layers of protection that predict, prevent, detect, respond and recover from both known and unknown threats. Much research has been done and malware is considered the biggest threat. The organization started increasing the security budget for endpoint protection past couple of years.
Now, what are the endpoint protection technologies?
As all of you must be heard about Antivirus which is common in use and is one of the basic technologies used to protect Endpoint. Now many technologies introduced in the market like EDR, XDR and many more.
Endpoint protection technologies also include things like whitelisting execution prevention, intrusion prevention, disk encryption, and much more. And these are supported by mechanisms such as signatures, behavioural analysis, machine learning, artificial intelligence etc.
The endpoints are controlled by humans but humans may do mistakes to allow attackers in. Endpoints are easy targets for attackers as they are used as launch points to attack other endpoints.
For Example an extremely popular, automated malware. Ransomware that asks for ransom for our data.
If Endpoint protection technologies are installed on endpoints they will predict, prevent, detect, respond and recover against ransomware and all other types of attacks.
We need to understand endpoint protection is an important brick in cybersecurity building.
