Summary

In summary, securing your endpoints is imperative to lower your company’s risk. Whether an employee takes their work laptop and connects it to a public Wi-Fi or clicks on a suspicious email, there are risks with your endpoints. Ideally, you want an advanced antivirus and anti-malware solution such as an EDR. Having a good EDR will both secure the endpoint and will alert you and your security team if an event occurs.

In the next chapter, we will be covering backups. When building a security program, ensuring you have good offline backups is critical. Whether an employee makes a mistake or your company gets attacked by ransomware, you need good offline backups and a business continuity plan (BCP).