How To Ensure Endpoint Security For Corporate Environment? – Part 2

Security geeks are constantly looking for ways to intensify the endpoint security measures as a result of the overwhelming cyber attacks happening through malicious apps on mobile devices. Setting up stringent endpoint security measures would be the best way to encounter possible malicious risks, and here are some ways of how this can be achieved.

Protect the home office and mobile office. While protecting company-provided laptops and mobile devices for employees who work remotely is still a manageable challenge, protecting user-owned devices like smartphones, game consoles and even home computers or USB sticks is a mammoth task. For an employee using his home computer for work-related tasks, the system may have outdated security software, or perhaps no protection at all, and might also be used by other family members who know nothing about IT security. The computer is at a high risk of infection, in turn infecting all the devices that connect to it. If the corporate administrator allows it to connect to the corporate network, it could also spread the infection there through VPN. Hence it is important to provide your employees security software for their own computers, smartphones and tablets, and propose regular scans and audits for those. You can also add them all in a centrally managed environment where you can easily monitor them.

Value and protect the user accounts. A user account is not just limited to a way of binding email addresses to employees, it means all the files, resources, information, privileges and network access that belong to one user. It is like a personal bank account, and the effects of it being misused or stolen access rights can incur huge loss. It is important to make sure that user accounts are safe, hard to penetrate and without value to the attacker. Protecting user accounts means making sure employees use strong, unique passwords and that they change them regularly and having devices and computers automatically lock themselves after a few minutes of not being in use.