What’s New In Gartner’s Hype Cycle For Endpoint Security, 2020

Aug 31, 2020 12:00 am Cyber Security 240

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Remote working’s rapid growth is making endpoint security an urgent priority for all organizations today.

Cloud-first deployment strategies dominate the innovations on this year’s Hype Cycle for Endpoint Security.

Zero Trust Security (ZTNA) is gaining adoption in enterprises who realize identities are the new security perimeter of their business.

By 2024, at least 40% of enterprises will have strategies for adopting Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) up from less than 1% at year-end 2018.

These and many other new insights are from Gartner Hype Cycle for Endpoint Security, 2020 published earlier this year and the recent announcement, Gartner Says Bring Your Own PC Security Will Transform Businesses within the Next Five Years. Gartner’s definition of Hype Cycles includes five phases of a technology’s lifecycle and is explained here. There are 20 technologies on this year’s Hype Cycle for Endpoint Security. The proliferation of endpoint attacks, the rapid surge in remote working, ransomware, fileless and phishing attacks are together, creating new opportunities for vendors to fast-track innovation. Cloud has become the platform of choice for organizations adopting endpoint security today, as evidenced by the Hype Cycle’s many references to cloud-first deployment strategies. The Gartner Hype Cycle for Endpoint Security, 2020, is shown below:

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