CLOUD & CYBER
“ Business units will increasingly buy IoT-enabled assets without policies for support , data ownership or integration into existing business applications ”
— Alfonso Velosa , Research Vice President , Gartner
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Key features of such solutions include the presence of a central database to record endpoint activity and then analyse , detect and report on potential issues such as unusual processes or connections , as well as the capacity to respond to multiple threats at once to avoid being overwhelmed .
The large cybersecurity companies all offer capabilities in this area , with Crowdstrike ’ s Falcon endpoint protection , for instance , including threat hunting , threat intelligence and USB device control , while Malwarebytes says its endpoint detection and response solution detects from the cloud and automates threat protection , pointing security teams in the right direction to fix issues . Technology unicorn SentinelOne , meanwhile , bases its entire offering on an autonomous AI-powered endpoint protection platform - it ’ s rapid funding highlighting the technology industry ’ s interest in endpoint security . JULY 2020