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THE CURRENT AND FUTURE PATH FOR MORE
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The State of Endpoint Insecurity
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The security professional’s job has
become an endless game of cat-and-
mouse, continually pursuing invisible
attackers that can out-think, out-run,
and outsmart most security systems.
No matter how efficient and nimble the
professional, the attackers are fast, too.
And getting faster every day. As a result,
endpoints remain vulnerable.
It’s not a matter of simply adding
additional security personnel. Industry-
wide, the IT professional is a scarce
commodity with demand far outpacing
supply. By 2022, there will be a shortage
of 1.8 million IT workers in the United
States, leaving companies even more
short-handed to perform day-to-
day tasks, much less those that are
critical for security. In fact, in a recent
survey conducted by ESG, the top
two weaknesses of endpoint security
staff were the “ability to investigate
a cybersecurity incident involving an
endpoint to determine root cause and
the attack chain,” and “monitoring
endpoint status to attain a real-time or
near real-time inventory of endpoints on
the network.”
Even for organizations with ample IT
staff, endpoint security stack complexity
is making their job inefficient and
unproductive. The average organization
maintains seven different software
agents installed on endpoints. u
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