PASADENA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Detecting and responding to modern threats on endpoints has become a key business priority according to a survey commissioned by Guidance Software, provider of market-leading endpoint detection and response software—EnCase®. The survey, which was conducted by the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), polled 340 IT and information security professionals working at enterprise organizations (i.e. more than 1,000 employees) to examine buying behavior, deployment trends, challenges, and future endpoint security strategies.
According to the research findings, 85 percent say that they plan to spend more on endpoint security. The reasons, highlighted in the research include improving incident detection (29 percent); improving incident response (29 percent) and mitigating risk from targeted attacks (24 percent). This trend is being driven by high profile attacks seen over the past year or two. Traditional endpoint security such as antivirus and host-based firewalls, which are reliant on exact-match signatures and rules, are struggling to keep pace with obfuscation techniques used by today’s attackers.
“The ever-changing threat landscape, combined with rapidly expanding networks and a surge in the number of endpoints in an organization, are creating unique challenges for organizations,” said Jon Oltsik, Senior Principal Analyst at ESG and the author of the research report, The Endpoint Security Paradox. “As hackers develop new cyber-attack methods, it’s critical that organizations embrace a holistic, proactive approach to prevent, detect, and respond to endpoint security threats.”
Other highlights from the survey include:
- Renewed focus on endpoint security strategies – Sixty-six percent have re-evaluated endpoint security policies, processes and tools to create a plan for improving endpoint security, and more than half (56 percent) have purchased new endpoint technologies in addition to those used in the past.
- Endpoint forensic tools are adding value toward enterprise security analytics – One-third of respondents are integrating endpoint forensics solutions with network forensics and/or security analytic tools significantly, while another 39 percent are integrating endpoint and network forensics on a limited basis.
- Traditional endpoint security falls short – Survey respondents also identified a number of endpoint security problem areas. For example, 38 percent said their security teams spend a lot of time “firefighting” incidents instead of conducting proactive process improvement or endpoint security strategy. Another 29 percent complain that endpoint security is based upon too many manual processes. Finally, more than one-third of organizations see endpoint security as a task to achieve compliance requirements.
“When you stack the results of this survey, the message is clear. Organizations are refocusing their security initiatives away from traditional network security and antivirus to advanced malware detection and endpoint forensic software which plays right into the core capabilities of Guidance Software’s EnCase security products,” said Barry Plaga, acting Chief Executive Officer for Guidance Software. “According to 98 percent of the respondents, endpoint security solutions must also provide remediation and recovery capabilities. EnCase is one of the few security solutions that not only detects anomalous behavior but provides functionality to actually contain and remediate threats.”
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About Guidance Software, Inc.
Guidance Software is recognized worldwide as the industry leader in endpoint investigation solutions for security incident response and forensic analysis. Its EnCase® Enterprise platform, deployed on an estimated 25 million endpoints, is used by more than 70 percent of the Fortune 100, more than 45 percent of the Fortune 500, and numerous government agencies to conduct digital investigations of servers, laptops, desktops and mobile devices. Built on the EnCase Enterprise platform are market-leading cybersecurity, IT help desk, and electronic discovery solutions, EnCase® Cybersecurity, EnCase® Analytics, EnCase® Remote Recovery + and EnCase® eDiscovery. They empower organizations to conduct speedy and thorough security incident response, reveal previously hidden advanced persistent threats or malicious insider activity, recover lost files, perform sensitive data discovery for compliance purposes, and respond to litigation discovery requests. For more information about Guidance Software, visit www.encase.com.
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