Endpoint Security

This article explores how endpoint security works, why it is an essential defence mechanism against cyberattacks and how AI-based solutions can strengthen your company’s overall security.

Table of Contents

• What is endpoint security?
• How does endpoint security work?
• Endpoint security & its importance for cybersecurity
• Hornetsecurity’s solutions for endpoint protection

What is endpoint security?

Endpoint security is a type of cybersecurity that protects devices such as phones, computers, and tablets from harmful threats and activities. The term broadly describes a variety of solutions that protect endpoints on a network or in the cloud. Endpoint security also involves preventing the spread of malicious software throughout a network.

How does endpoint security work?

There was a time when endpoint security largely meant simple antivirus software, but the challenge of protecting endpoints has grown increasingly complex.

Endpoint security, managed by endpoint protection platforms (EPP), monitors and stops harmful activities on each device in a network. It also uses virus scans, firewalls, and other security measures to protect data and devices from threats.

Additionally, organizations can use endpoint security to detect and respond to suspicious activities, such as ransomware attacks. Because of the complex nature of endpoint protection, it often requires multiple solutions working together as part of a unified technology stack or infrastructure.

endpoint security & its importance for cybersecurity

Endpoint protection is a vital part of cybersecurity. Data remains an organization’s top asset — and one constantly at risk of loss from cyberthreats. Meanwhile, organizations must protect an ever-increasing number of endpoints — with remote work and BYOD policies intensifying the challenge.

Endpoint security helps protect your network and data from malicious activities. Endpoints serve as entry points for hackers to breach a protected network. Many lack basic security features, making them especially attractive to hackers and areas of weakness in your attack surface. Endpoint security can secure your devices and data, even in the event of an endpoint compromise.

Hornetsecurity’s endpoint security solutions 

Hornet’s cybersecurity solutions provide AI-powered protection from mailbox to browser, serving an effective type of endpoint security and complement to other solutions. Hornetsecurity’s products defend against email-based threats that can compromise endpoints, including phishing, spear-phishing, and malware attacks. See how our email security solutions help fortify your cybersecurity stack.