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What are the biggest
challenges enterprises face
with endpoint security?
TAREK
TAREK KUZBARI,
KUZBARI, REGIONAL
REGIONAL
DIRECTOR
DIRECTOR FOR
FOR THE
THE MIDDLE
MIDDLE EAST
AT
BITDEFENDER
EAST
AT BITDEFENDER
There are two general trends in the
market – over two thirds of breaches
in organisations are at the endpoint
level and approximately a quarter of
overall security spending is allocated
to endpoint security tools. Against this
backdrop, below are the challenges that
enterprises are currently facing:
• The attack frequency and
sophistication are still increasing
• A lack of cybersecurity resources
is making it challenging for
organisations to proactively defend
against security threats
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status of each endpoint and make
sure it’s protected and fully updated
• Budget limitation to invest in
partnering with leading vendors that
can provide the organisation with the
technology needed to protect against
the latest threats
Over two thirds
of breaches in
organisations are at
the endpoint level
and approximately
a quarter of overall
security spending is
allocated to endpoint
security tools.
• Over 100 vendors offer some sort of
endpoint protection, making it more
and more challenging for CISOs to
make the right decision in partnering
with the right vendor for securing
their infrastructure
NAAMAN
NAAMAN HART,
HART, CLOUD
CLOUD SERVICES
SECURITY
SERVICES ARCHITECT,
SECURITY DIGITAL
GUARDIAN
ARCHITECT, DIGITAL GUARDIAN
• With the increasing number of alerts
from different systems and solutions
the analysts are using, there is ‘alert
fatigue’. It becomes overwhelming
for them to go through all the alerts
and signals that these systems are
generating, causing a decrease in the
quality of protection and response.
• Enterprises are creating more
complexity on the endpoint, with
an average of 10 security agents
on each device. This is making the
endpoint more fragile than resilient.
• An increase in BYOD and mobile
workers puts the users at higher
risk of infection
• A lack of security management
bandwidth to continuously check the
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The biggest challenges I see begin with
the age-old problem of updating and
maintaining system software. This is the
same old problem that never seems to
get any better and it’s still ignored by
the vast majority of people, often directly
leading to exposure to risk.
Ultimately, until we get good control over
the maintenance of core systems such
as our operating system, how are we
meant to patch each and every little bug
that appears in subcomponents within
other applications?
Every day a new exploit is discovered
and patched, and we lag drastically
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