An intelligent endpoint is one that is highly automated to detect security problems faster and more accurately, respond immediately and remediate problems fully. If done correctly, intelligent endpoints provide invaluable insights and forensics into threat behaviors. In order to stop increasingly sophisticated threats, many security and IT organizations have focused on endpoint detection and response (EDR). Creating truly intelligent endpoints requires a comprehensive and easily managed security framework, one that automatically detects and responds to threats before they do their damage. If an intelligent endpoint is your strategic goal, then meaningful integration and flexibility are important aspects to consider in an EDR solution.
Beyond stopping the sheer volume of threats, detecting and protecting against advanced threats has become essential to maintaining trusted endpoints. Endpoint security supplements centralized security measures with additional protection at the point of entry for many threats as well as effectively blocking access attempts prior to entry. Another stark reality is that advanced threats are, by nature and design, attacking more than one endpoint at a time in order to gain access to valuable data and systems through multiple footholds. It is increasingly rare that a security breach can be contained within a single system or application, in large part because so many attacks successfully evade security point products.
Additionally, security administrators are stretched to capacity trying to be experts on emerging threats and react in time to stop impending data breaches. Threats evolve, requiring administrators to learn and evolve, as well. Meaningful insights and automation are necessary to keep security professionals informed and moving forward. This means the emphasis has shifted from trying to stop attacks to quickly pinpointing, identifying and shining a bright light when attacks occur. Determining which endpoints are being attacked, what data is vulnerable and how quickly it can be remediated before massive damage is done is paramount. That’s where EDR comes in. According to Gartner,1 the EDR market is defined as solutions that have the following four primary capabilities:
- . Detect security incidents.
- Contain the incident at the endpoint, such that network traffic or process execution can be remotely controlled.
- Investigate security incidents. 4. Re-mediate endpoints to a pre-infection state.
EDR is all about speed and agility; it helps organizations reduce their windows of threat exposure from weeks or days to just minutes. The best EDR sorts through all the noise most security defenses yield, which often shows up as inordinate numbers of alerts or rising incidents of false positives. With the cost of remediating a data breach now exceeding tens of thousands of dollars per day, the pressure has intensified to spot problems with greater reliability and speed, to correct them immediately and to protect against further endpoint incursions and data exfiltration. At the end of the day, intelligent endpoints must be able to spot trouble, avoid it and limit the damage when threats do strike. It’s one thing to say you have a problem; it’s an entirely different thing to fix the problem immediately or prevent it altogether.
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