In 2019, 70% of successful breaches started at the endpoint. And now, with the large-scale shift to remote

working due to COVID 19, the explosion of end user devices, BYOD and endpoints working outside of the network, many organizations are still trying to determine the best security strategies, giving attackers time to take advantage and capitalize on the uncertainty. 

Traditional Endpoint Security is the process of securing devices such as mobile devices, laptops, desktops, servers, IoT, and POS and ensuring that those devices comply with certain criteria before they are granted access to network resources. The goal of endpoint security is to limit the attack surface by blocking unauthorized entry and safeguarding the network from malicious threats. 

Threats to endpoints can come in the form of external attacks as well as insider threats, which may be either malicious or unintentional in nature. A compromised endpoint can give an attacker a foothold within an environment, enabling them to launch further attacks on systems to access data and compromise additional endpoints via lateral movement.

Since a corporate IT network is essentially a linkage of endpoints, endpoint integrity and security should be prioritized before implementing other security solutions at the application layer. As we evolve into modern management of endpoints, the focus should shift to access to corporate data and cloud applications that may not be connected to a corporate environment.