Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business

Endpoint compromise rates

Human error
Unfortunately, attached to most of your endpoints is the single most vulnerable component in any organization’s infrastructure — the user. Your users may well regularly access your corporate data remotely and on their own devices, and many will have grown up online, picking up bad habits and over-confidence along the way. And they, as well as everything else, must also be kept safe.
So detecting and preventing unsafe behavior in today’s complex IT environments becomes yet another job for the hard-pressed security specialist.
And IT professionals can make mistakes too – we’re all only human, after all — mistakes that can result in attacks via vulnerabilities on irregularly patched corporate or personal devices, for example.
Resources and the lack of them
So the IT specialist clearly has a lot to do.
Even for smaller organizations, there’s an ever-increasing volume of security events to go through, analyze and respond to daily – hard to keep on doing efficiently and in a timely manner. Cybercriminals know that businesses are struggling here, and are taking full advantage.
And, even for those lucky enough to have deep pockets, there’s a global shortage of trained cybersecurity professionals. This problem isn’t new, but based on how many specialists are being trained each year, it’s not going away anytime soon. Keeping your security specialists happy and focused under these circumstances, or just keeping them at all, is a challenge. Burnout is a big issue, particularly if your highly skilled and expensively trained team are spending all day wading through mundane tasks.
Plus, or course, there’s the issue of financial resources. And processor power. And everything else it takes to optimize your security without impacting on processing speeds, employee productivity, user satisfaction or budgets.
The solution
So what are the answers?
Effective protection
First and foremost, everything hangs on effective endpoint protection and a strong EPP (Endpoint Protection Platform) – it’s that simple. Preventing threats at endpoint level, before they can trigger alerts, reduces the stress on resources, mitigates the risk of an attack succeeding, and helps keep the business running smoothly and safely. This applies to both commodity attacks, which take up most of the time, and more complex
and even targeted attacks, which are most likely to succeed and to do the most damage. Our recommended approach is a combination of multi-layered endpoint defenses – a strong baseline protection against commodity threats, and layered, multi-faceted defenses against the latest, more complex threats. Also it’s important to remember that some threats are designed specifically to evade EPPs, and for those different detection methods should be used, like automated sandboxing.

EDR (Endpoint Detection and Response) provides the next critical security layer. EPP provides initial identification and protection, while EDR provides visibility and deeper analysis options, allowing you to see how the attack has started and what stage it’s at right now. Besides detection, EDR also provides multiple response options, so the  threat revealed can be quickly and efficiently contained. EDR can only be effective in combination with a strong bedrock of protection. The more incidents your EPP solution can prevent up front, the fewer your EDR solution has to deal with, and the more resources you can focus on these few.

Kaspersky’s solution
All the issues mentioned above are resolved in the optimal manner by Kaspersky’s
Integrated Endpoint Security solution, a highly automated solution consisting of integrated
endpoint protection and controls, an automated sandbox, and EDR. All these three
components work together from the basis of a strong EPP. Let’s take a more detailed look
into each component, as they offer even more than the resolution of the issues described
above.
Strong baseline endpoint protection

Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business is well-established as providing
outstandingly robust EPP (including protection against ransomware and fileless
attacks) utilizing the most tested and most awarded anti-malware engine on the
market.
Endpoint protection layers provided by Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business include:
• Our award-winning anti-malware engine enhanced with machine learning
• Ransomware detection
• Behavior Detection with Automatic Rollback — identifying and blocking advanced
threats including fileless malware and admin account takeover, and reversing any
changes already made.
• Exploit prevention
• Mobile threat defenses and EMM integration
• Host-based intrusion prevention (HIPS)
• Firewall and OS firewall management
• Automated threat intelligence (Kaspersky Security Network)
• Encryption — including OS-embedded encryption management
• Security Policy Advisor — monitoring modifications to optimized security settings
• Vulnerability assessment and patch management
• OS & 3rd party software installation
• SIEM systems Integration

Systems hardening and human error mitigation is provided though controls including:
• Application Control with category-based whitelisting
• Adaptive Anomaly Control which monitors and blocks suspicious actions that are not
typical of the computers in a company’s network
• Device Control – controlling and blocking the plug-in of external devices
• Web Control – blocking or restricting access of potentially dangerous, time-wasting
or inappropriate sites