Overview
Endpoint security management is not just important, it’s a necessity for maintaining a firm grip on sensitive data. The recent past has seen multiple catastrophic incidents where organizations have suffered due to a lackadaisical attitude towards securing endpoints. This underlines the critical need for a proactive and holistic approach to endpoint security management.
According to Forbes, 70% of the most successful data breaches originate at the endpoint. With more hybrid work conditions, organizations are sometimes forced to allow end-users to perform critical IT tasks from their endpoints with minimum restrictions. As a result, access control risks rise, and subsequently, data breach threats also increase.
ARCON | Endpoint Privilege Management (EPM) ensures that every endpoint in the organization adheres to the applicable processes, policies, and standards so that enterprise data is managed appropriately throughout its lifecycle. This includes everything from how data is collected and stored to how it is accessed, used, and shared. These data security traits are seldom discussed while endpoint security is interpreted.
There are three new capabilities of ARCON | EPM that add muscles to the strength of the solution. Let us explore.
Integration with My Vault DRM tool
Use Case:
Data governance and data security are the most crucial traits of enterprise data management. They include preventing unauthorized access and restricted sharing of data assets. ARCON | EPM ensures the same. However, if there is any genuine data-sharing requirement among authenticated users, how could that be possible?
Solution (Feature):
ARCON | EPM collaborates with ARCON’s My Vault solution that works as a centralized repository to protect, store and share confidential and sensitive information securely. EPM integrates with the My Vault DRM (Digital Rights Management) tool, enabling users to back up files and folders in an encrypted format. After the backup, users can share these files and folders with specific permissions, ensuring that only authorized users can access the encrypted content. Hence, sharing of critical information is possible on requirements.
Outside PAM Monitoring and Restriction
Use Case:
In scenarios when EPM is not integrated with ARCON | PAM and IT administrators need to verify endpoint access to different operating systems simultaneously, how can that be possible? There could be IT operational downtime if administrators do not have endpoint activity reports on Windows, Linux, or Mac endpoints to ensure secure and authorized access management practices.
Solution (Feature):
ARCON | EPM if not integrated with ARCON | PAM (Privileged Access Management) can also help administrators to monitor end-users/ endpoints. Seamless monitoring and restriction can be enforced for servers when access occurs outside of PAM on Linux, Windows, and Mac endpoints. Monitoring profiles generate reports on endpoints accessing any PAM service configured with EPM, while restrictions prevent users from utilizing services outside of PAM if the profile is applied to the endpoint.
Application/ URL Whitelisting
Use Case:
Among a huge repository of applications, it is critical to whitelist authenticated applications, genuine URLs, and approved resources… and it could be a herculean task, if done manually.
Solution (Feature):
By implementing URL and application whitelisting, organizations ensure that only authenticated and approved resources are accessible. This strategy reduces exposure to unauthorized or potentially harmful sites and applications by limiting access to whitelisted URLs and applications. Consequently, enterprises can better manage and secure their digital environment, mitigating the risk of security breaches.
Conclusion
The comprehensiveness of ARCON | Endpoint Privilege Management (EPM) has been the key reason for organizations operating with thousands of endpoints to choose this solution for ensuring the desired level of endpoint security. Adding some good features makes it an even more powerful solution for mitigating endpoint risk.
