5 Reasons Your Business Needs Endpoint Protection

According to a study conducted by IBM, hackers were found to have spent an average of 206 days on a business's network before they were detected. That's over six months of access to things like customer data, financial information, intellectual property, passwords, and much more. The most tried and true approach to detecting intrusions is by implementing something known as Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR).

This approach to cybersecurity falls under what we like to call a proactive approach to preventing disaster. By proactively searching for security leaks 24/7, the likelihood of an attacker slipping through the cracks becomes near zero. Alternatively, without an endpoint protection plan in place, your cybersecurity team may not find an intruder until it's too late – or ever. 

Instead of waiting around to notify your IT team about security breaches, EDR introduces real-time incident response and review. This means immediate threat isolation, triage, and investigation for any issues that arise. 

3. Reduce dwell time

Forget hackers being on your network for 200-something days, by securing yourself with EDR you'll be greatly reducing the time hackers go unnoticed. 

4. Advanced threat detection

Before, hackers could modify unsuspecting files or programs on your systems that they could use later to begin their attack. Now with EDR, any suspicious file modification will trip the security system to ensure the changes were not malicious.

5. Compliance & data protection

Outside of the security benefits of EDR, you'll be able to demonstrate compliance through strong security controls and incident response capabilities. 

How we proactively protect businesses