Endpoint Protection

Being prepared for anything - Why control and visibility of all endpoints is key to your security and resilience

Being prepared for anything

Why control and visibility of all endpoints is key to your security and resilience

The modern business is truly ‘always on’. Delivering the service quality and availability customers and end users have come to expect requires IT infrastructure to be highly secure and highly resilient, while still maintaining the flexibility to adapt to the unexpected. Put simply, any period of downtime, no matter how brief, will have a serious effect on your profits and reputation - potentially irreparably so.

We have seen this multiple times in recent years, with organisations’ reputations damaged by large-scale outages. Whether these are caused by malware and ransomware, ‘acts of God’, or human error, it is important to ensure that measures are in place to minimise the chance of any such incidents occurring. This is the foundation of true operational resilience and, in turn, complete peace of mind for your customers and end users.

So, how can you put measures in place to optimise the resilience of your infrastructure when designing, deploying, and managing your IT solution stack?

First of all, as IT infrastructure is increasingly dispersed, control and visibility of all endpoints is essential, in order to ensure emerging threats can be identified and secured against - anytime and anywhere. For especially large, complex infrastructure, Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) presents an increasing challenge for internal IT teams, which means automation should be applied where appropriate, ensuring policies can be consistently applied, and risks identified in real-time, with alerts issued and actions taken as appropriate.

At the same time, it is important to ensure that all security updates can be rolled out in an effective, efficient manner, that does not inadvertently create any unexpected outages in the race to stay one step ahead of bad actors. Specifically, full-scale rollouts of updates across all endpoints, all at once should be avoided as much as possible. Instead, phased deployments across individual environments should be adopted, so if there are any issues, they can be contained and mitigated, before a wider deployment is executed.

EXPO.e Networks’ own advanced, Cloud-based Endpoint Protection solution - powered by SentinelOne - was designed with this in mind, utilising AI-powered automation in a intelligent, strategic way that provides the perfect blend of control, visibility, and efficiency, with leading-edge AI complementing and enhancing cyber security teams’ own expertise to minimise the risk of large-scale disruption.

So, as you select the perfect blend of flavours for your own IT sundae, don’t forget to include Endpoint Protection in your mix of toppings. The next time a large-scale outage occurs, it could make all the difference to your ability to maintain service continuity and continue to develop your brand reputation. Just contact us today to get started and arrange a consultation with one of our experts to review your endpoint security, and get dark fibre connectivity to maximise your overall operational resilience.