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Vendor Landscape: Endpoint Anti-Malware
Endpoint protection grows up to become a fully-fledged security suite unto itself.
Last Revised: September 18, 2012
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Your Challenge
- Malware is an ever-present threat that continues to grow at near exponential rates.
- Poor Anti-Malware performance (due to malware growth) combined with a large number of vendors makes Anti-Malware selection difficult.
- The cost of infection is such that enterprises must implement an Anti-Malware solution, but cannot afford to implement the wrong solution.
Our Advice
Critical Insight- Virus volumes are becoming almost unmanageable: at least by traditional measures. Reputation scanning offers the hope of a rebalancing of the protection/performance scale and is becoming ubiquitous.
- Endpoints need protecting against more than just malware: endpoints have become a primary battlefront in the modern security war. Every step must be taken to protect them. Complete suites offer unparalleled ease of management.
- Cheap and cheerful may not always be appropriate: cut-price solutions may be lowest on features/functionality. Evaluate on both cost and features to determine whether it’s worth spending more.
Implementing feature-rich endpoint Anti-Malware solutions is the most significant step that enterprises can take to mitigate risk. Selecting the optimal solution ensures the greatest level of protection, and therefore the greatest reduction in risk.
Get to Action
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Understand the Endpoint Anti-Malware market space
Understand Endpoint Anti-Malware solutions, their capabilities, and cost.
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Review Endpoint Anti-Malware solutions
Build a shortlist of best-fit Endpoint Anti-Malware tools for the enterprise.
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Solution Road Map
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Build a Network Security StrategyLike door locks and deadbolts: the basics of security that can't be ignored.
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Vendor Landscape: Next Generation FirewallsThe perimeter firewall grows up and becomes a Swiss Army Knife of protection capabilities.
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Vendor Landscape: Endpoint Anti-MalwareEndpoint protection grows up to become a fully-fledged security suite unto itself.
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Vendor Landscape Plus: Intrusion Detection and Prevention SystemsBad guys will get in; make sure they don't get far with an enterprise network alarm.
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Vendor Landscape: Secure Socket Layer Virtual Private NetworkYour workers are going remote. Is your security?
3 Comments
Great Storyboard. Thank you.
How can you rate endpoint malware protection without including its track-record for effectiveness?
Thank you for your comment. As noted in response to another comment on this same solution set, though the relative effectiveness of core scanning capabilities is an important aspect of any anti-malware solution, such analyses are available from a variety of free sources. With that in mind, Info-Tech’s evaluation of the product space has focused on additional advanced features that address broader requirements as expressed by our diverse client base. That said, your request for a greater focus on the core aspects of anti-malware solutions will be considered thoroughly during our regular agenda planning activities.