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5 CHARACTERISTICS TO LOOK FOR IN A GOOD ENDPOINT SECURITY SYSTEM



In December 2020, one of the most sophisticated cyberattacks of the 21st century
was discovered—the SolarWinds Sunburst attack. Microsoft, as well as the US
government, traced an advanced persistent threat breach back to a hack on
SolarWinds, an IT management software and remote monitoring company.1

The attackers had added a backdoor known as 'Sunburst' to one of SolarWinds’
infrastructure monitoring and management platform. The malicious program was
disguised as a routine software update and was distributed to SolarWinds
customers globally.

This backdoor gave the APT group access to the customers' networks, enabling
them to explore and steal sensitive files and credentials. More than 18,000
customer organizations were compromised.


CUSTOMERS WITH ENDPOINT DETECTION & RESPONSE (EDR) WERE PROTECTED

However, customers using SentinelOne protected devices were spared from the
SolarWinds Sunburst attack without any updates to the SentinelOne XDR platform.2
This protection was due to the security product's autonomous AI and
anti-tampering, which shielded its customers at the point of attack.

This proves how critical it is to have a good endpoint security system in place.
To help you select the best security solution, we’ve identified five key
features a good endpoint security system should have:

 1. Offers Proactive Approach to Novel Threats
    
    Ensure that your security product proactively detects unknown threats via
    machine learning (ML) models and behavioral AI. Past security products
    primarily relied on malware ‘signatures’—they see an active threat that’s
    compromising other enterprises and write a signature to update their
    endpoints. However, signature-based defenses are entirely useless against a
    novel threat.
    
    To overcome that, some vendors have now turned to ML models and behavioral
    AI to identify patterns common to malicious files and behavior. ML models
    can be trained to effectively deal with most of the commodity malware we
    have today, but they cannot be relied on to catch all malware
    pre-execution. Nevertheless, it’s a great tactic to keep endpoints safe from
    common attacks. Behavioral AI works splendidly alongside ML models by
    identifying patterns of behavior that are typical of cyberattacks.  
    
    However, it would be best to avoid solutions that rely on cloud connectivity
    to offer security features, as cybercriminals can easily disconnect a device
    while deploying their attack. Choose a product that works locally on the
    endpoint and can make decisions at machine speed for the best possible
    endpoint protection.  

 2. Efficient Damage Mitigation with 24/7 SOC and Automated Systems
    
    Pick an endpoint security solution capable of automatically mitigating and
    remediating designated processes on the device. However, automatic
    mitigation isn’t the best way forward in all cases; if a false positive
    software update is released for example, it can quarantine every host in an
    environment.
    
    Instead, get a security solution that works with a 24/7 security operations
    center (SOC) to review the alert, and then leverage the automation system to
    execute a playbook to isolate a host. This way, if there is a false positive
    case, it won’t break your production system.
    
    Ask your endpoint security vendor about what automated mitigations are
    available and what happens in case of a missed detection.

 3. Multi-Site and Multi-Tenancy Flexibility
    
    With organizations going global and remote employees becoming the norm, it's
    more important than ever to have an endpoint security system that supports
    multi-tenancy and multi-sites. In other words, your security solution should
    work on large numbers of devices and data points, so that it can manage,
    respond to, and collect data from your global sites while allowing local
    teams to inherit from the central policy and manage locally when needed.

 4. Plugs Gaps with Auto-Deploy
    
    It’s not surprising for IT and security admins to miss a few endpoints in
    the system, especially in a vast organization spanning multiple sites and
    sub-networks. Unfortunately, this is where cybercriminals take advantage of
    unprotected endpoints.  
    
    A practical solution is to map the network and fingerprint devices to
    determine what is connected and unprotected. Choose an endpoint security
    product that offers an automated means to find deployment gaps quickly and
    reliably, and install the solution on these unprotected endpoints.  

 5. Wider Visibility
    
    Visibility on what's happening on your endpoints needs to evolve,
    particularly with increased digitalization. The best endpoint security
    systems are now moving from EDR into Extended Detection and Response (XDR).
    It helps organizations address cybersecurity challenges from a unified
    standpoint, resulting in faster and more effective threat detection and
    response.
    
    An effective XDR platform should offer out-of-the-box cross-stack
    correlation, prevention, and remediation while enabling users to write their
    own cross-stack custom rules for detection and response.

1SOLARWINDS HACK EXPLAINED: EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW; WHATIS.COM

2ALL SENTINELONE CUSTOMERS PROTECTED FROM SOLARWINDS SUNBURST ATTACK;
SENTINELONE


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