[BreachExchange] 5 Signs It’s Time to Replace Your Endpoint Security Solution

[Audrey McNeil]

https://solutionsreview.com/endpoint-security/5-signs-time-replace-endpoint-
security-solution/


An endpoint security solution is one of the most critical aspects of any
cybersecurity policy. It’s necessary to deploying firewalls, detecting
malware, ransomware, or cryptojacking threats, and removing them from
corporate servers. It’s the most easily understood, and thus one of the
most popular, components of cybersecurity.

But this often means that an endpoint security solution is one of the first
selections an enterprise makes for its cybersecurity policy. Thus it is the
digital security component that is the most likely to stagnate or become
outdated without anyone noticing. Old habits die hard, and people like what
is familiar to them even if it doesn’t work. Your enterprise must be
willing to make changes to get serious about your digital security. If you
are rewriting your cybersecurity policies to enforce modern best practices,
it may be time to reevaluate if your endpoint security as well.

Here are the 5 signs that it is time to update or replace your endpoint
security solution:

Your Endpoint Security Solution is Giving You False Positives

False positives are the bane of IT departments and cybersecurity at
enterprises large and small alike. Tracking down what looks to be a serious
digital threat only to discover it was an unusual but innocent event—or an
average event wrongly identified—is more than just an annoyance. It’s a
serious drain on your cybersecurity team’s valuable and limited time and
their budgets; some enterprises spend over a million dollars a year on
false positives’ wild goose chases. Even worse, false positives drown out
legitimate security threats, allowing them the opportunity to slip by and
wreck silent havoc on your corporate servers.

An endpoint security solution that bombards your team with false positives
needs to be replaced as soon as possible. Not only will it spare your
wallet, it will also help your cybersecurity keep their sanity in
addressing the attacks on your enterprise.

Your Endpoint Security Cannot Keep Up In Detection Capabilities

Traditional, older endpoint security solutions often rely on
signature-based detection methods. This worked in the early days of
cybersecurity, but newer threats such as signatureless threats and fileless
malware are more than capable of eluding signature-based detection. With
these new kinds of malware becoming increasingly popular, traditional
detection tools are becoming equally obsolete.

A new endpoint security solution will feature new signatureless based
detection methods and tools to help detect fileless malware threats.

The Security Platform is Hindering Your Performance

The older the endpoint security solution, the more CPU processing power it
requires to perform its duties. This can cause your endpoints to run at
unacceptably sluggish speeds, and a sluggish computer is a sluggish
employee; productivity can suffer. Further, even draining so much memory
doesn’t guarantee that the scanning will be quick either. Replacing that
solution with new one should free up plenty of CPU power while scanning
your enterprise’s networks more efficiently.

The User Interface is Causing Problems

An older endpoint security solution tends to cause usability issues that
range from obnoxious to downright dangerous. Some solutions will bombard
users with pop-up warnings or reminders, as they don’t have the automation
capabilities that would act autonomously to find and remove threats. Others
will require intricate manual intervention to function, which is not only a
serious time-sink but can create more dangers than they solve: if the user
interface is too confusing, as they tend to be in older solutions, the user
might enact incorrect or ineffective settings, leaving the enterprise
inadvertently vulnerable.

A new endpoint security solution should have a simplified, clean user
interface that is easy and effective.

Your Endpoint Security Solution Does Not Integrate or Deploy Well

An ideal endpoint security solution needs to accommodate the needs of the
enterprise, and in part that means working with other solutions to create a
comprehensive security network. Even the most advanced endpoint security
solutions don’t have SIEM capabilities or identity management components,
and so your solution will need to integrate with others. If your solution
doesn’t that’s a sign it is time to immediately switch; you cannot rely
upon an old endpoint security solution alone to defend your enterprise.

Furthermore, your solution must be able to deploy across the entire
enterprise—a taller order than it once was with the rise of
bring-you-own-devices culture becoming widespread. Again, if it cannot,
then you need to replace it. It really is as simple as that.
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