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Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) in 2022

Unified Endpoint Management is gradually becoming the way to manage devices in the future. Many organizations trying to handle thousands of endpoints are looking for a perfect, custom-made UEM solution.

Unified endpoint management (UEM) is an architecture and approach that allows a centralized command center to govern many types of devices such as PCs, cellphones, and IoT devices. These systems aid in making various networks safer and more efficient. Unified endpoint management (UEM) refers to a group of technologies that allow companies to protect and manage a variety of staff devices and operating systems from a single console.

According to the researchers at Infosecurity Outlook, IT departments seem to experience difficulties integrating old systems on these new devices, resulting in greater IT costs. Unified endpoint management makes connecting these systems easier while also saving costs and reducing threats.

Advantages of Unified Endpoint Management

Companies can use UEM solutions to monitor and manage all their endpoints, including mobile devices and traditional endpoints, in one place. UEM systems’ design and ability to replace many standalone solutions bring considerable benefits to a business, including:

Threat Detection: Cyber attackers and other threat actors are increasingly targeting endpoints as they migrate outside of the corporate network and its perimeter-based defences. UEM solutions have a thorough understanding of the endpoints they monitor, allowing them to spot unusual activity or signs that an endpoint has been hacked. This allows security teams to respond to suspected threats before they harm company networks, data, or applications.

Single Pane of Glass Management: The ability of a business to monitor and manage the devices used by its remote workforce is hampered by remote and hybrid work. UEM solutions allow a company to manage both mobile and traditional endpoints from a single platform, allowing for better visibility and management.

Cost Savings: UEM tools provide a single solution for monitoring and managing all of an organization’s endpoints, resulting in cost savings. UEM reduces the capital and operational expenditures (OPEX/CAPEX) of managing an organization’s IT infrastructure by eliminating the need to acquire, deploy, maintain, and operate multiple standalone solutions. It also allows security teams to scale to meet their needs as their responsibilities grow. 

Importance of UEM

UEM solutions give a centralized view of all the endpoints connected to your network and allow you to manage them centrally and remotely without having to gather data from on-site and off-site device management tools; the UEM solution takes care of everything. This solution also makes it easy to keep track of device usage and health, such as vulnerabilities that need to be patched, operating system updates, and software or application updates that need to be distributed. When these features are combined, you can provide a baseline level of security and threat monitoring across all your endpoints, including personal mobile devices.

Unified Endpoint Management also helps in keeping track of device usage and health, such as vulnerabilities that need to be patched, operating system updates, and software or application updates that need to be distributed. When these features are combined, you can provide a baseline level of security and threat monitoring across all your endpoints, including personal mobile devices. Some UEM systems even include built-in security features that allow you to safeguard your endpoints from malware, viruses, and harmful software.

Conclusion

Unified Endpoint Management systems support consistent and stringent security rules across the board. Having such consistent regulations makes it easy for the IT staff to locate, monitor, and resolve any endpoint-related issues. As a result, purchasing a single UEM solution is more cost-effective and productive than purchasing multiple solutions that fulfil distinct needs.

Data Theorem Releases Industry’s First Active Protection Suite with Observability and Runtime Defense

Data Theorem, Inc., a global leading provider of modern application security, announced the industry’s first Active Protection package, which includes observability and runtime defense and provides comprehensive security for API, mobile, modern web, cloud, and serverless (Lambda) functions.

To prevent data breaches, organisations today require technologies that are specifically designed for securing modern application stacks. Runtime AppSec technologies in the past (WAFs, RASPs, EDRs) were unable to cover crucial sections of modern application stacks like cloud-native applications. Traditional web application firewalls (WAFs), runtime application self-protection (RASPs), and endpoint detection and response (EDR) agents, these cannot secure serverless applications with APIs, such as AWS Lambda. This is due to the lack of readily available operating systems for agent installation, as well as typical network perimeters with ingress/egress points. Data Theorem’s whole product suite now includes runtime protections and observability, addressing security gaps in modern application exposures typical in cloud-native stacks.

Data Theorem is the first to provide full stack security for current modern apps, starting with the client layer (mobile and web), protecting the network layer (REST and GraphQL APIs), and extending all the way down to the underlying infrastructure (cloud services).

“Data Theorem’s Active Protection is the first in the industry to provide comprehensive security across today’s modern application stacks. Application environments are more dynamic when leveraging cloud services requiring increased telemetry. Organizations need to discover their growing attack surfaces as their cloud adoption grows. We are not aware of any other vendor delivering active protection runtime defenses and observability across cloud-native, mobile, modern web, and serverless applications,” said Doug Dooley, Data Theorem COO.

Data Theorem’s extensive AppSec portfolio secures companies against data breaches with application security testing and protection for modern web frameworks, API-driven microservices, and cloud resources. Its solutions are driven by the company’s award-winning Analyzer Engine, which utilizes a unique sort of dynamic and run-time analysis that is completely implemented into the CI/CD process and allows enterprises to undertake continuous, automated security inspection and remediation.

Its solutions are driven by the company’s award-winning Analyzer Engine, which utilizes a unique sort of dynamic and run-time analysis that is completely implemented into the CI/CD process and allows enterprises to undertake continuous, automated security inspection and remediation.

User and Entity Behaviour Analytics (UEBA) – Buying Guide

User & Entity Behaviour Analytics

UEBA technologies employ analytics to construct standard profiles and behaviours for users and entities (servers, routers) in an Enterprise firm over a period. This is referred to as “baselining”. Activity that differs from these standard baselines is flagged as suspicious by UEBA technology and analytics applied to these anomalies helps in the discovery of possible risks and security incidents.

While buying UEBA Solution following points must be considered –

Data Sources – The UEBA solution must support various data sources.

A SIEM is a data gathering point for a wide range of security data from users’ directories, logs, and other security solutions. Over other data sources, SIEM information has the advantage of being readily available to put into a security solution.

Endpoint data is collected by a smaller number of security vendors. Most collect data directly or from a SIEM via an existing endpoint. User behaviour related to application, network, and cloud activity can be found in endpoint data. It is an important data source.

For security analysis, two more data sources are critical. The log data from major enterprise software like SAP and Oracle. Gathering this information will provide more insight into cyberattacks on organizational operations and financial information.

Machine Learning and Behavioral Analysis

A security analytics solution’s purpose is to swiftly detect threats across the company, particularly those that are often undetected by conventional methods. Behavioural analytics establishes a distinct baseline for each company’s entity. These activities should be linked to the participants like users/accounts, machines, apps, data, and other digital assets are examples of entities. Probabilistic approaches can measure how irregular an occurrence is by computing an appropriate risk score as entities engage in anomalous activities. So, machine learning algorithms play a key role in identifying cyber threats. Machine learning also defines the baseline for behaviour and does behavioural analysis. Hence, companies should look for a UEBA vendors who have extremely efficient and accurate machine learning algorithms.

Incident Response and Investigations

When in incident response, the purpose of UEBA is to clearly identify and present a threat. UEBA will give a security team actionable information about the issue so that it can be prevented before data is compromised. To respond to an incident the UEBA solution should clearly identify and present a threat. It should include possible responses to the incident. So, firms should look for vendors who present incident information with good quality information and visual graphs. The companies should also assess what various investigation and incident response options are provided by the vendors.

Ease of Use

Complex user interfaces have hampered security products in the past. The majority fails to show where the biggest risk is in a comprehensive manner and what the nature of that risk is. Typically, tools’ dashboards will display the change over time, some events, such as a potentially dangerous IP address or malware fingerprint. These tools require rigorous training to master. Hence, companies should look for UEBA solution with user-friendly interface and customization options.

Performance and Scalability

The UEBA solution should be scalable. Security analysis will be done on the firm’s all endpoints across different sources like customers and vendors.  This results in billions of processes per month utilizing heavy storage. The UEBA solution you must be designed to cope up this scale.  In addition, the UEBA solution must be able to scale up down quickly and handle data in real-time as per business requirements. 

Use Cases

The major use case for UEBA solutions is the identification of multiple types of threats, which is accomplished through analysis of frequently correlated user and other entity behaviour. Monitoring for unauthorized data access, suspect privileged user behaviours, and generally improving detection processes are examples of use cases.  However, non-IT and non-security data sources are frequently required like analytics models detecting fraud. So, these analytical models learn from uses case-based data. Hence, better the use case increases threat detection accuracy. So, companies should look for UEBA solutions with rich and quality uses cases and analytical models.

Cost and Support

It’s important to look into the type of assistance that a particular vendor offers. In any case, comprehensive technical support is an optional extra that could dramatically increase implementation expenses. Due to the fact that UEBA products have an expiration policy, which means the vendor will no longer support them, the cost and number of software upgrades must be considered. The cost of UEBA varies based on the features, power of analytics, size and capabilities of the network. What is the maximum amount of money that a company is willing to spend? Is the business concerned about ROI? The second step after selecting a UEBA product is to implement and support it. To be effective, UEBA must be administered by dedicated trained workers or added to the responsibilities of professional staff. There are disparities in terms of costs and levels of service assistance.

SecureReview Rebrands as SessionGuardian

SecureReview, an industry leader in cybersecurity for distributed workforces, has announced the launch of a new brand name and identity. SessionGuardian will be the firm’s new name, indicating their strong commitment to developing a new global standard for endpoint security. A new logo, brand name, and visual identity are all part of the rebranding.

“After launching the next evolution in remote endpoint cybersecurity, we felt it was the right time for a brand evolution. Our new SessionGuardian.com website and brand identity reflect our industry-leading position and clearly demonstrate the evolution of our endpoint security software and company. Our team is excited to deliver the future of cybersecurity as SessionGuardian,” said Jordan Ellington, founder and CEO of SessionGuardian.

Ellington and his market advisors founded SessionGuardian in 2017 after noticing a significant gap in conventional endpoint security procedures. They introduced software that uses biometric technology to enforce second-by-second facial recognition throughout remote user sessions, from log on to log off, in order to address this widespread threat that end users pose. 

SessionGuardian is better positioned to expand their impact on worldwide cybersecurity landscape with a new identity. They are proud to adopt a name that more precisely and strongly communicates the end-user vulnerability protection they provide.

Kivu and Fortalice partnered to provide cybersecurity services to their joint customers

Kivu Consulting, Inc. and Fortalice Solutions, LLC announced a strategic partnership to provide end-to-end cybersecurity services. These world-class organizations will be able to address rising customers’ demands for numerous cybersecurity areas as a result of their collaboration. Fortalice has  knowledge of offensive cybersecurity, security engineering, open-source intelligence, strategic communications, and risk and compliance experience. Kivu brings decades of experience in incident response, digital forensics, breach cleanup, and managed services to the table.

“Now more than ever, clients need cybersecurity firms to offer ‘best-in-class’ abilities across all their urgent needs. As a women-owned business headed by the first female CIO at the White House under George W. Bush, Fortalice’s excellence in handling incidents from triage to remediation perfectly complements Kivu’s reputation as the ‘go-to’ firm for incident response, post-breach remediation, and managed services,” said Chad Holmes, CEO of Kivu Consulting.

Organizations require advanced, distinct skillsets to plan for, respond to, and recover from breaches as bad actors become more sophisticated. Professionals with diversified and highly specialized backgrounds make up the Fortalice and Kivu Consulting teams. “The professionals at Fortalice and Kivu have spent time reimagining how to provide solutions that meet clients exactly where they are in that moment. Our combined teams bring to the industry some of the globe’s leading expert problem-solvers, many of whom have decades of experience”This combination assures our clients have access to a deeper bench of professionals, all at the top of their game, bringing the highest skill levels to all stages of cybersecurity,” said Theresa Payton, CEO of Fortalice Solutions.

Kivu and Fortalice will collaborate to service clients based on their needs as a result of the partnership. Together, the two companies will provide a broad range of services throughout the breach lifecycle.

DeepSurface Security Announces Endpoint Integration with Microsoft Defender

DeepSurface, the award-winning risk-based vulnerability management platform has integrated with Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. DeepSurface can now automatically accept reports of vulnerabilities, missing patches, and misconfigurations across Microsoft, Linux, and Mac hosts provided by Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. DeepSurface then assesses and ranks vulnerabilities based on the possible risk to the company. Vulnerability management teams can gain comprehensive insight on where their cybersecurity risks are with DeepSurface, allowing them to lower the risk of a cyberattack on their company swiftly.

“Vulnerability Management plays a crucial role in improving an organization’s overall security posture, and Microsoft’s threat and vulnerability management capabilities are a great way for customers to easily add vulnerability data to their threat model. We’re excited to make DeepSurface easy to use for any customers deploying Microsoft Defender for Endpoint. The new integration means companies can implement a cost-effective method of contextual vulnerability prioritization in one easy-to-use interface,” said DeepSurface CTO and co-founder Tim Morgan.

DeepSurface is one of the few vulnerability management systems that take into account more than 50 different environmental factors. User and system account permissions, Active Directory configuration, critical and sensitive assets, installed software, user activity, network access, vulnerability scanner output (from Tenable, Qualys, Microsoft ATP, and Rapid7), and AWS Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) attributes are among the items examined. All of these details are utilized to place vulnerabilities (and chains of vulnerabilities) in the context of an organization’s digital infrastructure.

Tomer Teller, principal security program Manager, Microsoft said, “We’re pleased to see DeepSurface integrate with our threat and vulnerability management capabilities in Microsoft Defender for Endpoint because it gives our mutual customers even more flexibility in designing a well-integrated vulnerability management program.”

Nuspire Launches New Managed Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) Service That Supports Leading EDR Technology Providers

Nuspire, a leading Managed Security Services Provider (MSSP) that is reshaping the cybersecurity experience, introduced its latest managed EDR service, which supports best-in-class EDR technologies from Carbon Black, SentinelOne, and others to help customers manage and automate their EDR solutions.

“As organizations shifted to remote work last year, there was a rush to get EDR technology solutions. More recently, organizations have recognized how essential the right skills and staff are to managing and monitoring them. This announcement underscores the ability to support clients that have Carbon Black, SentinelOne and/or other leading solutions while also providing clients with full visibility and response through one tool – myNuspire. It is designed for the security professional who wants to measure and improve their security program,” said Jyothish Varma, Nuspire Vice President of Product Management.

When clients have limited resources, 24×7 time, or knowledge to operate or monitor their EDR technology, Nuspire’s EDR solution provides SOC as a Service (SoCaas). Nuspire’s security professionals respond to issues automatically, assist clients in determining which technology best meets their organization’s objectives, and provide full insight into their security program through a single tool.

Cybereason and CYDERES Form Partnership to Bring Managed Detection and Response to Market

Cybereason, the industry leader in operation-centric attack management and CYDERES, Fishtech Group’s security-as-a-service business and a Top 25 MSSP, made a strategic agreement to provide enhanced security detection and incident response to present and future managed security clients.

The Cybereason Defender’s League, a worldwide partner community newly introduced by Cybereason, is designed to reward partners like CYDERES by enhancing their margins and profitability. CYDERES will be a strategic MDR vendor for Cybereason, assisting in the reversal of the adversary advantage throughout the cybersecurity risk environment.

“Combining Cybereason’s award-winning Cybereason Platform with the CYDERES MDR solution will help return defenders to higher ground above threat actors,” said Lior Div, CEO and Co-founder, Cybereason. “Cyber attacks on endpoints can be stopped and it is our mission to work closely with CYDERES to make cybercrime and espionage unprofitable.”

The Cybereason Defense Platform, which integrates endpoint detection and response with next-generation anti-virus and a proactive threat hunting platform to decrease cyber risks, will be available to CYDERES and Cybereason’s joint clients immediately. End users will be better prepared to cope with around-the-clock cyber threats.

“We believe our customer’s core success is found in automating and operationalizing their security programs cost effectively at scale. We‘re excited to bring our portfolio to Cybereason’s Defenders League as we work together to help organizations manage risk, detect threats, and respond to security incidents in real-time,” said Gary Fish, CEO and founder of Fishtech Group.  

CYDERES has prevailed the momentum it has built since its beginning by forming strategic alliances and adding new features and services to deliver a strong 24/7 Security-as-a-Service offering for any computing system.