With an increasingly distributed workforce, securing user operated devices, or endpoints, like computers, laptops, smartphones, and tablets, from cyber threats has become much more difficult. For many years anti-virus has been the go-to technical solution for protecting endpoints. However, in today’s heightened state of cyber risk, whilst anti-virus remains a core component of an Endpoint Protection strategy, it is no longer enough.
Organisations should adopt a ‘defence in depth’ approach and utilise an Endpoint Detection & Response (EDR) solution in place of a traditional anti-virus solution, which when combined with staff awareness training, intrusion detection systems and patch management, ensure a layered defence with the capabilities to detect and neutralize threats before they can infiltrate a network