Endpoint Protection Buyers Guide
| Endpoint security is one of the most critical components of a cybersecurity strategy. Unfortunately, for those responsible for protecting their organizations’ endpoints, it has never been more challenging to select the best solution for the job. With hundreds of options on the market and features that sound identical, choosing an endpoint protection solution is anything but straightforward. CrowdStrike® recommends that a comprehensive and efficient endpoint protection solution should include five key elements. The objectives below can be used as guidelines when evaluating and choosing an endpoint protection platform.
Prevention to keep out as many malicious elements as possibleDetection to find and remove attackers Managed threat hunting to elevate detection beyond automationThreat intelligence integration to understand and stay ahead of attackers IT hygiene and vulnerability assessment to prepare and strengthen the environment against threats and attacks CrowdStrike recommends that these five elements need to be enabled and delivered via cloud-native architecture in order to meet the speed, flexibility and capacity required to fend off modern attackers. Finally, those elements need to be combined within a single lightweight agent that does not bloat the endpoints or impact their performance.The CrowdStrike Falcon® next-generation endpoint protection platform integrates all those elements in one lightweight agent, supported by the cloud. Falcon unifies the technologies required to successfully stop breaches, including next-generation antivirus (NGAV), endpoint detection and response (EDR), IT hygiene, vulnerability assessment, 24/7 managed threat hunting and threat intelligence. They combine to provide continuous breach prevention in a single agent that can be deployed within hours with no impact on endpoints or users. The Falcon platform’s ability to continuously stop breaches makes it a true and proven next-generation endpoint protection solution. |
