Integration matters. We at McAfee have been advocating the administrative benefits of integrated, centrally managed endpoint security for decades, but you don’t just have to take our word for it. A recent independently written article in BizTech Magazine concurs.
BizTech explores technology and business issues that IT leaders and business managers face when they’re evaluating and implementing solutions. In “Businesses Find Endpoint Security Easier to Manage with Integrated Solutions,” journalist Kym Gilhooly references a number of independent security surveys as well as interviews a CISO, an IT manager, and a network administrator at three different companies. Each of these cybersecurity professionals and their respective small and medium-sized companies came to the conclusion that, to defend against today’s breadth of threats—from signature-based to zero-day, known and unknown— an integrated security approach combining endpoint detection and response (EDR), next-generation antivirus, and application control makes more sense than deploying discrete solutions.
Uniting these technologies in one integrated solution has allowed them to take action across the threat defense lifecycle—from detecting and blocking threats and whitelisting critical applications to tracking down malicious exploits during or before execution and helping incident response teams respond and remediate faster. As CISO Tony Taylor of dairy company Land O’Lakes points out in the article, “There are lots of security tools out there, but if you don’t integrate the stack, you’ve got to associate all that information and make the connections yourself.”
