Cyber-attacks are constantly evolving in both sophistication and scale.
As remote work is becoming increasingly common, strong endpoint security has become even more vital to any organisation’s cybersecurity strategy.
Cybercrime is a billion-dollar business, costing Australian companies more than $2 billion a year.
How fast can your business recover from a cyber-attack, and can it be prevented?
As new threats are emerging every day at an increasingly rapid rate, traditional antivirus cannot keep up."
Traditional Antivirus software is the lowest common denominator of endpoint security.
Antivirus scans the endpoint for known malware such as trojans and worms, and upon detecting them, removes them from the system.
This detection is done by comparing binaries, known as signatures, to running processes or installed software for suspicious properties, and checking to see if malware has tampered with existing files on the endpoint.
These signatures must be regularly updated on the endpoint, and as new threats are emerging every day at an increasingly rapid rate, traditional antivirus cannot keep up.
This is where EDR comes in.
If you are only using legacy solutions, like traditional antivirus, your business is at a higher risk of severe disruption.
Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) is an active security solution that can help detect and investigate security incidents and restore endpoints to their pre-infection state.
EDR continuously monitors end-user devices and applications to provide comprehensive visibility into what is happening on endpoints in real time. This allows effective detection and response to cyber threats like ransomware and malware.
EDR provides protection against the most imminent threats, with instant and full remediation, even when devices are offline.
An EDR system does this by leveraging real-time indicators of attack and threat intelligence, using machine learning and AI to deliver hyper-accurate detections, automated protection and remediation, elite threat hunting and prioritised observability of vulnerabilities.
An effective EDR solution includes NGAV (Next Gen Antivirus) for a comprehensive Endpoint Protection Platform. This allows proactive protection for your business by means of prevention, including detection, threat hunting, threat intelligence and vulnerability management.
In case of a breach, EDR allows the business to take swift and instantaneous action by isolating potentially compromised hosts from all network activity until remediation has been completed. This prevents the spread and stops the breach in its tracks.
The importance of strong endpoint protection has grown as organisations increasingly support remote working.
Remote workers are generally not protected to the same degree against cyber threats as on-site office workers.
This can expose the business to additional cybersecurity risk.
EDR is essential to protect all workers, remote and local from cyber-attacks, and prevent attackers from using remote endpoints as an entry point into your business network.
VInet places a high priority on the security and reliability of all customers and their data and as such only use the best technology. Through our testing and research, we have found CrowdStrike to be among the industry leaders and to offer the most complete set of protection without compromising the performance or reliability of systems it is installed on.
CrowdStrike is a comprehensive EPP (Endpoint Protection Platform) that includes EDR and NGAV, and also integrates threat intelligence and other adjacent technologies with its cloud-native platform.
With CrowdStrike, your business benefits from better protection, better performance and immediate peace of mind.
Through our testing and research, we have found CrowdStrike to be among the industry leaders and to offer the most complete set of protection without compromising the performance or reliability of systems it is installed on."