Meeting the challenge of securing endpoints by unifying essential components in a single agent

Published by Check Point Software on Aug 25, 2008

Any organization concerned about information security would discover that endpoints are the universal Achilles heel of risk. Endpoints bring three significant new risks. First, attacks increasingly bypass traditional perimeter-focused security and enter endpoints and the enterprise network through a variety of methods, such as interaction with malicious Web sites. Second, a large number of endpoints are mobile so they may be used both inside and outside the traditional perimeter of security controls. Finally, endpoints present a huge logistical challenge to IT staff who often must manage deployment of policies and controls for multiple security agents on each physical device.