Endpoint Security
Sharp Endpoint Security secures and safeguards your business data by protecting end-user devices when they access your business network.
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Unlock comprehensive protection with Sharp's Endpoint Security Solutions. In the dynamic landscape of today's cyber threats, businesses face challenges discerning the necessity of investment. Misconceptions range, from assuming immunity to budget constraints. Cybersecurity, however, is a global imperative. Recent data reveals the indiscriminate nature of cybercrime, impacting organisations irrespective of size or sector, often due to inadequate training or human error.
The risks are significant—disrupting business continuity through data loss and diminished productivity. As remote work becomes ubiquitous, robust cybersecurity across all endpoints is paramount. Cyber threats, from phishing to malware, exploit the evolving work landscape, where colleagues and IT teams are not readily accessible for guidance.
Sharp's Endpoint Security Solutions offer peace of mind. Don't wait to discover a breach too late—enquire about Sharp's Endpoint Security to ensure constant monitoring and security for your devices, regardless of your team's location.
Complete Endpoint Security
Our Complete Endpoint Security provides Managed Detection and Response and Endpoint Detection and Response solutions to suit every business. They can be seamlessly applied across all your devices, eliminating the need for a standalone alternative, and saving you on cost and complications.
Sharp manages your Complete Endpoint Security solution protecting your businesses endpoints, detecting and responding with best-in-class security and defending against the growing risks of both local and web-based threats and malware
While safeguarding your servers is crucial, it's equally important to protect the PCs and laptops used by your team to access vital business data. With Complete Endpoint Security, we can effectively monitor and secure critical aspects of your end-user devices, ensuring the safety of your valuable company data against potential threats.
What are the 6 vitals for the best Endpoint Security?
Our complete Endpoint Security ensures uninterrupted and meticulous Endpoint Monitoring of cyber threats on each device within your organisation, offering Managed Detection and Response (MDR) alongside Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) to pick up any threats before they become a problem.
Capture data and get new insight into the age, specifications, serial numbers and model details of all your IT assets.
Execute updates and manage patches for Windows and selected third-party applications on a pre-scheduled, automatic basis.
Collaborate with technical consultants to generate a comprehensive Cyber Security Risk Assessment reports and showcase your businesses compliance effort and strategy for future cyber security initiatives.
Our Compliance and Security module automatically implements recommended security configurations. We can further customise settings, such as disabling USB storage device usage, across all endpoints while ensuring protection is reinforced every 5 minutes.
This reporting feature illustrates the performance history of all endpoints, allowing your business to demonstrate its dedication to securing data. It's crucial to showcase commitment, not just action, especially concerning GDPR compliance.
What is an endpoint?
An endpoint is any device that accesses or communicates with your businesses IT network. The benefit of Endpoint Security is to prevent and mitigate cyber security risks by safeguarding these access points to your network.
Business endpoints are:
- IoT (Internet-of-Things) devices
- Laptops, computers, PCs, Macs, and tablets
- Printers, MFPs and print devices
- Servers
- Smartphones
- Virtual environments
How does Endpoint Security work?
With the rise of mobile devices, Internet of Things (IoT) devices, and remote work, the number and diversity of endpoints in a business environment have increased significantly. Each of these devices represents a potential entry point for cyber threats, making endpoint security essential to protect against attacks.
The adoption of remote work policies has blurred the traditional network boundaries. Employees now access sensitive business data from various locations and devices. Endpoint Security ensures that these endpoints are secure and adhere to security policies, even when outside the corporate network perimeter.
Malware, including viruses, ransomware, and spyware, continues to be a prevalent threat to businesses. Endpoint security solutions deploy specialist cyber security tools to detect and neutralise such threats before they can cause harm.
Not all security threats come from external threat actors. Insider threats, whether unintentional or malicious, pose a significant risk to businesses. Endpoint security solutions help you monitor user behaviour and identify potential anomalies or suspicious activities.
Cyber criminals often discover and exploit software vulnerabilities before developers can release patches. Endpoint security solutions can detect and block zero-day exploits and prevent attackers from exploiting these vulnerabilities.
Many industries are subject to specific data protection regulations. Endpoint security aids businesses in maintaining compliance with GDPR standards.
Endpoint security solutions provide continuous monitoring of devices, enabling the early detection of potential threats and immediate response to security incidents.
Why is Endpoint Security important for businesses?
Cyber threats are increasing year on year with European businesses having experienced over 953 cyberattacks and 5.3 billion records compromised in 2023 according to CERT-EU Threat Landscape Report 2023. From phishing emails to intrusive malware, criminals are taking advantage of remote working environments and unsuspecting staff members. The phenomenon is not limited to large enterprises - small and medium-sized organisations are also in the firing line, where the consequences of business downtime, fines, or reputational damage are markedly worse with fewer capital resources to rely upon.
There are two main reasons for prioritising endpoint security solutions and physical devices:
Companies want people to work smarter, and faster, to increase their productivity. This has led to an exponential rise in BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) workplace policies, each with its own levels of protection. Ensuring those endpoints are secure has never been so important.
An unprecedented increase in the number of people working from home, remotely in public places such as cafés or hotels, or on the go means that business data is being accessed from a diverse array of networks and Wi-Fi connections. Without the benefit of on-premise endpoint security solutions (such as routers and firewalls), remote working is naturally less secure than a centralised workplace environment.
Sharp's Endpoint Security solutions
Devices are monitored and protected 24/7 by award-winning Cyber Security experts. Malicious activity is detected before malware can be deployed, giving you peace of mind that your endpoints are monitored and secure, no matter where your teams are working.
Threat detection and remediation
Our EDR solution (Endpoint Detection and Response) uses AI to monitor endpoint and network activity. It reviews user behaviours and records all activity for future analysis and, reporting. Our EDR security service provides network and device control, allowing you to restrict the use of removable storage devices and pre-defined apps.
Threat coverage
Using the latest behavioural and AI technology, suspicious activity is picked up in real-time. It doesn’t matter where your staff are working - from the office, their home, an airport, or café - your data is protected.
European Technology Support Centre (ETSC)
Security monitoring requires human intervention to analyse any threats that have been identified. Our European Technology Support Centre (ETSC) will examine your endpoint alerts 24/7, so that you can focus on your core business functions. Malicious behaviour will be stopped and quarantined to protect the rest of your network, and a member of the ETSC will take the appropriate action.
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What is Endpoint Security best practice?
Endpoint security best practice involves a comprehensive and proactive approach to protecting endpoints from potential security threats. Implementing these practices helps organisations strengthen their security posture and reduce the risk of cyber attacks.
In this day and age, relying on a single security measure is simply not sufficient. To stay ahead of hackers, implement a multi-layered security approach that includes a combination of antivirus, firewall, intrusion detection and prevention systems, data encryption, and other security tools. This layered defence strategy ensures that if one layer is breached, there are additional layers of protection in place.
Regularly update operating systems, applications, and security software on all endpoints. Software updates often include patches for known vulnerabilities and keeping everything up to date reduces the risk of exploitation by cyber criminals.
Enforce strong password policies and consider using multi-factor authentication (MFA) for user logins within your organisation. MFA adds an extra layer of security by requiring users to provide additional verification, such as a one-time code sent to their mobile device, in addition to their password.
Use device control mechanisms to manage and restrict the use of USB drives, external storage, and other peripherals. This prevents unauthorised data transfers and helps control potential sources of malware.
Human error remains the most significant factor in cyber security breaches. To help foster a cyber security aware culture within your organisation, conduct regular security awareness training to educate your teams about potential threats, including phishing attacks, and safe computing practices. Conducting periodic security assessments, such as phishing simulation and penetration tests helps to identify potential vulnerabilities and weaknesses in Endpoint Security. These findings help you to continually improve security measures and will help encourage a security-conscious culture throughout the organisation.
Implement real-time monitoring and behaviour analysis on endpoints to detect suspicious activities or deviations from normal behaviour. This can help identify potential threats and respond to security incidents promptly.
Endpoint Detection Response solutions provide advanced threat detection and response capabilities. They can automatically investigate, contain, and remediate potential threats on endpoints, enhancing overall cyber security.
Regularly back up critical data from endpoints to secure locations. In the event of a successful cyber attack, having backups can significantly reduce the impact and help mitigate business downtime.
Separate endpoints based on their roles and functions and restrict access between segments. Network segmentation helps contain threats and prevents lateral movement within the network if one endpoint is compromised.
Have a well-defined incident response plan in place, outlining the steps to take in case of a security breach. Practice and update the plan regularly to ensure an efficient response to security incidents.
What is Endpoint Detection & Response?
Traditional anti-virus solutions operate on the premise of “scans, detects and removes.” EDR goes one step further by tracking, monitoring, and analysing data on endpoints to provide a more sophisticated set of countermeasures.
What is a SOC?
The SOC (Security Operations Centre) is a team of information security specialists who are responsible for monitoring and analysing security information.
Monitoring is a key component and needs a human element to analyse threats when they are identified. With a Security Operations Centre (SOC) monitoring your endpoint alerts 24/7, malicious behaviour is detected, stopped, and quarantined and you can be assured that your systems are safe, and action will be taken should any suspicious activity be detected.
What is a zero-day attack?
A zero-day attack is an unknown security vulnerability that cyber criminals exploit to gain access to systems and data. Such attacks will not be picked up by anti-virus alone and usually require specialist preventative measures.
Endpoint Security vs Network Security
Endpoint Security and network security are two essential components of a comprehensive cyber security strategy for businesses, but they address distinct aspects of security. Essentially, endpoint security solutions target individual devices, while network security covers the broader protection of the entire network infrastructure and the data it carries.
Endpoint Security focuses on protecting individual devices (endpoints) and involves implementing measures such as antivirus, firewall, encryption, and device control to secure these endpoints and prevent unauthorised access, data breaches, and malware infections.
On the other hand, network security is concerned with safeguarding the entire network infrastructure and the data flowing between devices. It involves measures like firewalls, intrusion detection systems, and virtual private networks (VPNs) to monitor and control network traffic, detect, and respond to suspicious activities, and prevent unauthorised access to the network.
Additional business cyber security services we offer
Total endpoint security is just one way of protecting your business against cyber crime. A multi-layered approach to cyber security is the recommended response. Here are some additional services that you need to consider:
We’ll install software on all your physical and virtual assets to flag up suspicious behaviour. All alerts are monitored by a dedicated local team of technicians. Suspicious behaviour will be acted on immediately, and with the necessary updates implemented as soon as any firmware upgrades are released.
Managed email security solutions detect threats that traditional email protection systems cannot, by integrating with Exchange Online. Artificial intelligence will detect malware hiding within emails sent to and from your business before they become a problem.
Sharp Security Awareness Training is a cutting-edge Business Cyber Security Service addressing the primary cyber threat – human actions. With 80% of breaches linked to staff, Sharp offers a robust training program, including AI integration, tailored simulations, and compliance alignment. Benefit from European language support, unique pricing, and flexibility for business.