Endpoint Validation

Are your endpoint security tools sleeping on the job?

Most enterprise security solutions do not put enough focus on ensuring and validating the health, ability and overall status of endpoint configuration, management and security tools.

Imagine you've hired a security guard from a prestigious security firm who is sleeping on the job. Your solution is in place, but its status – ineffective; and you don't even know about it. The price of exposing your business assets and confidential company information is way too high, not to mention what you're paying for the security guard.

Answers to key questions – proof your network may be at risk

You want to make sure your endpoint security tools are performing the way they were designed to perform, but this is often not the case. To be sure your investment is protected and your company assets are properly safeguarded, you must consider these three simple questions:

• Are your security tools fully deployed and can this be accurately verified?
• What percentage of your security tools is actually being used?
• Are corporate compliance and government regulations being followed?

A 2008 Promisec study (over 6 months) of 100,000 endpoints across organizations of various sizes in a variety of industries found that:

• 2% (2,000) were not up to date with the latest service packs
• More than 12% of the endpoints were without AV installed, running or updated
• 9,000 endpoints had unauthorized P2P applications installed
• More than 8% of 3rd party agents (security/management) were not installed properly.

The Promisec Solution: Fast, Complete, Accurate

Companies can no longer monitor and manage critical issues and internal security risks that threaten day-to-day business activities using heavy & intrusive legacy tools not on par with the pace of change. Point based security tools and agent based management solutions simply cannot sufficiently address the numerous and complex demands that organizations of all sizes face today.

With more efficient and comprehensive validation and auditing controls, corporations can meet these demands in an optimized environment where IT becomes a profit enabler rather than a corporate burden. Promisec's clientless solutions will help you maintain your competitive edge with round-the-clock validation of all your endpoints increasing productivity and assuring network compliance.

Seeing the big picture: validate compliance & 3rd party security agents

Promisec's clientless approach to endpoint management is revolutionary in that it enables a company to see a comprehensive picture of its existing endpoint posture with no client on the endpoints, verifying that all authorized endpoint security components are deployed, functioning and compliant with both company policy and government regulation.

Many organizations do not realize how blind they often are to potential internal network threats until an attack occurs and valuable assets are exposed to tremendous risk. With Promisec's easy-to-use clientless validation solution you can be confident that what should be working is working.

Promisec's clientless Endpoint Validation offers:

Comprehensive endpoint validation & auditing

Promisec protects your endpoints and servers from architectural limitations in your security tools, hackers trying to exploit those limitations and threats caused by user misconduct that violates compliance policies.

Optimization for network efficiency and increased productivity

Promisec's solution will streamline your IT operation, dramatically increase the performance of your network and save you valuable time & money.

Promisec protects your business assets all the time

To keep up with endless advancements in technology, companies need a clear and effective framework that will give them instant 24/7 visibility on the endpoints and the ability to:

• Validate endpoint changes anytime, not just during standard maintenance periods (12am–3am) when many company assets are offline
• Perform continuous and automatic inspections & validation that will prevent growing threats to critical infrastructure
• Audit in real-time to expose threats (that never sleep) while enforcing compliance and regulations

Common Risks Identified During an Audit

Some of the most common risks found during the auditing process include unauthorized Internet activity, PDA usage, dual connectivity, anti-virus solutions not fully deployed or without the latest updates, and "push" engine deployment without validation that changes were made at the endpoint.    Read more