Select and Implement a Next Generation Endpoint Protection Solution

Today’s security battles are fought at the endpoint.

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Absolute
Bromium
Carbon Black
CheckPoint
CrowdStrike
Cylance
Digital Guardian
McAfee
Malwarebytes
Sophos
Symantec
TrendMicro
Morphisec
SparkCognition

As the market evolves, capabilities that were once cutting edge become default and new functionality becomes differentiating.
Vendors use a lot of marketing jargon, buzzwords, and statistics to sell their solutions, making objective evaluation rather difficult.
The endpoint protection (EPP) market is overcrowded and fragmented, resulting in information overload and consequently, a difficult vendor assessment.
Disparate product solutions are being bundled into one-off solutions or suites, often resulting in less efficient solutions than the more niche players.
Imminent obsolescence is an issue. Previous EPP solutions have not adapted with the rapidly evolving threat landscape and are no longer relevant, resulting in breaches or vulnerabilities.

Our Advice

Critical Insight

Don’t let vendors and market reports define your endpoint protection needs. Identify the use cases and corresponding feature sets that best align with your risk profile before evaluating the vendor marketspace.
Your security controls are diminishing in value (if they haven’t already). Develop a strategy that accounts for the rapid evolution and imminent obsolescence of your endpoint controls. Plan for future needs when making purchasing decisions today.
Endpoint protection is a matter of defense in depth and risk modelling, there is no silver bullet protection and mitigation solution. As end-client-technology providers release regular product/software updates, security tools will become outdated. Multiyear endpoint protection commitments will leave you playing a constant game of catch up.

Impact and Result

The solution is a holistic internal security assessment that not only identifies, but satisfies, your desired endpoint protection feature set with the corresponding endpoint protection suite and a comprehensive implementation strategy.
Use this blueprint to walk through the steps of selecting and implementing an endpoint protection solution that best aligns with your organizational needs.

Start here – read the Executive Brief

Read our concise Executive Brief to find out why you should select and implement a next-generation endpoint protection solution, review Info-Tech’s methodology, and understand the four ways we can support you in completing this project.

Select and Implement a Next Generation Endpoint Protection Solution – Executive Brief

1. Create an effective endpoint protection strategy

Assess the use case and corresponding feature set that best aligns with the organizational landscape.

2. Select an endpoint protection solution

Streamline the endpoint procurement process by identifying the vendor that best satisfies the use-case criteria.

3. Implement and manage your endpoint protection solution

Prepare for the EPP implementation and measure the value of the solution.

Guided Implementations

This guided implementation is a seven call advisory process.

Guided Implementation #1 - Create an endpoint protection strategy

Call #1 - Identify the need for an EPP solution.

Call #2 - Identify the most appropriate use case.

Guided Implementation #2 - Select your endpoint protection solution

Call #1 - Understand the EPP vendor landscape.

Call #2 - Shortlist the vendors and create an RFP

Call #3 - Score RFP responses and review contracts.

Guided Implementation #3 - Implement and manage your endpoint protection solution

Call #1 - Plan and launch the implementation.

Call #2 - Finalize success metrics.

Book Your Workshop

Onsite workshops offer an easy way to accelerate your project. If you are unable to do the project yourself, and a Guided Implementation isn't enough, we offer low-cost onsite delivery of our project workshops. We take you through every phase of your project and ensure that you have a roadmap in place to complete your project successfully.

Module 1: Create An Effective Endpoint Protection Strategy

The Purpose

Assess the use case and corresponding feature set that best aligns with your organizational landscape.

Key Benefits Achieved

Determine why you need a new endpoint protection solution.
Understand Info-Tech’s use-case approach.
Evaluate current endpoint protection feature sets and criteria.

Activities

Outputs

1.1

Determine if an EPP solution is right for you.

Understanding of current EPP situation.

1.2

Identify your unique use-case scenario.

The most appropriate use-case scenario to structure your evaluation around.

1.3

Evaluate the EPP feature sets.

Shortlisted feature sets that best align with your organizational use case.

Module 2: Select an Endpoint Protection Solution

The Purpose

Streamline your endpoint procurement process by identifying the vendor that best satisfies your use-case criteria.

Key Benefits Achieved

Optimize your endpoint protection procurement process.
Determine EPP vendor criteria.
Evaluate the EPP marketspace.
Design, submit, and evaluate vendor RFPs.

Activities

Outputs

2.1

Analyze the vendor landscape.

Detailed understanding of the vendor landscape.

2.2

Create a custom vendor shortlist.

Shortlist of suitable solutions.

2.3

Develop an RFP.

Completed and reviewed RFP document.

2.4

Standardize a vendor demo script.

Fairly evaluated vendor demos.

2.5

Assess the total cost of ownership and return on investment of each solution.

Side-by-side comparison of TCO and ROI.

Module 3: Implement and Manage Your Endpoint Protection Solution

The Purpose

Prepare for the EPP implementation and measure the value of the solution.

Key Benefits Achieved

Identify the appropriate resourcing plan for your endpoint protection solution.
Plan the implementation.
Design, build, test, and roll out the solution.
Develop a comprehensive measurement program.

Activities

Outputs

3.1

Plan for your implementation.

Clearly defined responsibilities and a structured project roadmap

3.2

Evaluate the success of your endpoint implementation.

A shortlist of relevant endpoint protection metrics

After each Info-Tech experience, we ask our members to quantify the real time savings, monetary impact, and project improvements our research helped them achieve. See our top member experiences for this Blueprint, and what our clients have to say.

Client

Experience

Impact

$ Saved

Days Saved

Testimonial

Segal

Guided Implementation

8/10

$11,460

Proquest

Guided Implementation

10/10

N/A

Not sure it will save us any money because we will likely select a more expensive tool, but the value will be higher in the process. Great call, very helpful, no worst parts.

Hope Global

Guided Implementation

10/10

$12,733

Roivant Sciences, Inc.

Guided Implementation

10/10

N/A

St. Joseph's Healthcare Hamilton

Guided Implementation

9/10

$3,000

St. Lawrence County

Guided Implementation

10/10

$31,833

Very helpful in assimilating my analysis and providing real-world feedback specific to my environment! Top rate!!

Ottawa Community Housing Corporation

Guided Implementation

9/10

$16,000

Knowledge of Info-Tech consultant that has provided valuable advice, templates, and guidance. As well scheduled a follow up call in Sept when evaluation ramps up.

City of Woodbury

Guided Implementation

9/10

$12,733

American Nutrition, Inc.

Guided Implementation

10/10

N/A

Morningstar Air Express

Guided Implementation

9/10

$2,000

Good overview of the current landscape.

ISG Central Services Ltd.

Guided Implementation

8/10

N/A

Very in-depth knowledge of endpoint protection products on the market.

Research Triangle Institute

Guided Implementation

8/10

N/A

Analyst was extremely knowledgeable on the topic.

City of Woodbury

Guided Implementation

10/10

$20,373

Edward had exactly the right research on what we are investigating.

Blue Earth County Government

Guided Implementation

9/10

$5,093

Best - Edward packed a lot of information into one hour. He hit the important points and didn't dwell on the less-important points. Also, we actually got vendor recommendations we can act on, which I wasn't expecting. Well worth our time.

Care New England Health System

Guided Implementation

9/10

$12,733

I thought the RFP style comparison template was extremely valuable and will help to jump start our process. The call was informative and insightful

Washington State Department of Ecology

Guided Implementation

10/10

$2,546

100

Analysis Group Inc

Guided Implementation

9/10

N/A

CAA South Central Ontario Systems and Services Inc.

Guided Implementation

10/10

$25,000

It was reassuring that our decision to purchase Cylance was reinforced by Edward and team. We were originally recommended the product by InfoTech roughly one year ago and it is good to hear that you are still recommending the product as a top 3 in the space. Thank-you for your assistance. It was a very good call.

Chemeketa Community College

Guided Implementation

9/10

N/A

Basin Electric Power Cooperative

Guided Implementation

9/10

$12,733

Good EPP conversation with Edward. Insightful information.

SAF- Holland

Guided Implementation

6/10

$6,366

Edward was very knowledgeable about the topic. He provided us with some recommendations and answered all our questions.

City of Los Angeles Recreation and Parks

Guided Implementation

8/10

$13,752

Minimize the time for me to gather and assess the info; very good source

Washington State Department of Ecology

Guided Implementation

10/10

$318K

Everett's knowledge of EPP and the vendors who are in the market is next to priceless. Our agency is looking for the best options and he understood our needs. Fantastic support and on point recommendations that will save of potentially thousands of dollars and months of time.

Volaris Group

Guided Implementation

8/10

$10,000

International Civil Aviation Organization

Guided Implementation

6/10

N/A

Search Code: 83965
Published: May 19, 2017
Last Revised: May 29, 2017

Select and Implement a Next Generation Endpoint Protection Solution

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Critical Insight

Impact and Result

Research & Tools

Start here – read the Executive Brief

1. Create an effective endpoint protection strategy

2. Select an endpoint protection solution

3. Implement and manage your endpoint protection solution

Guided Implementations

Call #1 - Identify the need for an EPP solution.

Call #2 - Identify the most appropriate use case.

Call #1 - Understand the EPP vendor landscape.

Call #2 - Shortlist the vendors and create an RFP

Call #3 - Score RFP responses and review contracts.

Call #1 - Plan and launch the implementation.

Call #2 - Finalize success metrics.

Onsite Workshop

Book Your Workshop

Module 1: Create An Effective Endpoint Protection Strategy

The Purpose

Key Benefits Achieved

Activities

Outputs

Module 2: Select an Endpoint Protection Solution

The Purpose

Key Benefits Achieved

Activities

Outputs

Module 3: Implement and Manage Your Endpoint Protection Solution

The Purpose

Key Benefits Achieved

Activities

Outputs

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