Bad people are still taking advantage of the growing gaps in endpoint security or endpoint protection that all businesses plan to fix in 2022. Chief information security officers (CISOs) and their teams are under a lot of pressure. They have to support more virtual workers, move infrastructure to the cloud, and protect endpoints in a more unpredictable threatscape. Automating endpoint security is critical to thwarting increasingly complex cyberattack strategies.
Gartner’s new Endpoint Protection Platform Forecast says that by 2021, global enterprise spending will reach $13.3 billion, and by 2025, it will be $26.4 billion, with a compound annual growth rate of 18.7%. Gartner’s latest forecast reflects that endpoint security is a priority for enterprises today.
In 2022, getting endpoint security right will be very important.
Eighty-two percent of CISOs have changed their security policies in response to the need for work-from-home (WFH) and virtual teams, but endpoints often don’t have the patches they need to stay safe or have too many conflicting software agents. Those are two of the more valuable findings from Absolute Software’s report earlier this year. According to its 2021 Endpoint Risk Report, endpoints that are over-configured can leave them at risk just as much as not having any endpoints at all.
Absolute’s survey also found that 76 percent of IT security decision-makers say their companies are going to spend more money and use more endpoint security in 2021 because of that. Furthermore, CISOs tell VentureBeat that the trend is accelerating quickly as the work to build business cases to increase endpoint investment uncovers previously unknown gaps in endpoint security that leave their organisations vulnerable to breaches and cyberattacks.
It’s important to know which security trends are most important.
For CISOs and their teams, there are a lot of different things they can do to keep their endpoints safe in 2022. Identifying the trends that will help businesses get more out of their endpoint investments is a good place to start. Proving endpoint security’s business case sets the foundation for CISOs to win budget approvals in 2022 and beyond. To help endpoint security in 2022, here are the trends that will be most important:
1. Zero trust security will make more of an impact on endpoint security in 2022.
They say that zero-trust security or zero-trust network access (ZTNA) decisions are necessary for them to build the business cases they need to get more money in the future, and that these decisions are “table stakes.” Earlier this year, Ericom released its Zero Trust Market Dynamics Survey. It found that 80% of organisations plan to use zero-trust security in less than a year, and 83% say that zero trust is important for their long-term business.
Cybersecurity investments
In Ericom’s zero-trust survey, they say that cybersecurity investments are just as much a business decision as they are a technical one. In order for zero trust security frameworks to work with a business-driven funding model for cybersecurity, they need to make sure that their Identity Access Management (IAM), network security, and web security are all align with that model. These three areas are very important for protecting IT infrastructure, operations-based systems, and customer and channel identities and data, as well.
Latest hype cycle for endpoint security says that the current generation of ZTNA applications have better user experiences, more customization options, and better persona and role-based adaptability. It also says cloud-based ZTNA offerings “improve scalability and make it easier for people to use them.” Absolute Software’s acquisition of NetMotion is an early sign of how many endpoint security mergers and acquisitions there will be in 2022. CISOs need unified platforms to improve endpoint security across the whole company.
2. CISOs will start to focus more on consolidating endpoint systems with the help of UEM.
CISOs are under a lot of pressure to get more done with less money, so they want to consolidate their tech stacks and save money for new things. Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) proves its worth by combining identity, security, and remote access in Zero Trust Security or ZTNA frameworks, which are now thought to be important for securing a anywhere workforce. A lot of new things have been happening in UEM over the last year or so, and the goal is to make security and compliance risks less likely. UEM’s advantages include making it easier for people to keep their mobile devices and operating systems up to date, allowing them to manage their devices, and having an architecture that can work with a wide range of devices and operating systems.
Another benefit that businesses point out is that they can automate internet-based patching, policy, and configuration management. Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) leaders include Ivanti, which has a platform that shows off its industry-leading unified endpoint management abilities. Ivanti also gives its customers security solutions that work with their UEM platform, like mobile threat defence (MTD) and passwordless multi-factor authentication that doesn’t require a password (zero sign-on). Blackberry, Citrix, IBM, Microsoft, and Sophos are also UEM vendors to keep an eye on.
3. In 2022, self-healing end points will have a big year.
Organizations are quickly adopting self-healing endpoint platforms because they need more resilient, persistent endpoint security that gives them more control and visibility. Health care, insurance, financial services and manufacturing are some of the industries where CISOs tell VentureBeat they want to see more self-healing endpoints in the next few years because they could help IT and cybersecurity operations be more secure, faster, or bigger than they already are.
A self-healing endpoint has self-diagnostics built in so that, when combined with adaptive intelligence, it can spot breach attempts and take action right away to stop them. Finally, self-healing endpoints shut down. They then re-check all OS and application versioning, as well as patch updates, and reset themselves to an optimal and secure configuration. All of these things happen without anyone’s help. Absolute Software, Akamai, Blackberry, Cisco’s self-healing networks, Ivanti, Malwarebytes, McAfee, Microsoft 365, Qualys, SentinelOne, Tanium, Trend Micro, Webroot, and many other companies say that their endpoints can self-heal on their own, and many more say the same thing.
