At the heart of every organization are its employees, the engine that drives growth, fueled by the data they create and store on their laptops, tablets, and mobile phones, as well as access through data center and cloud servers.
It should come as no surprise to CISOs that 60 percent of corporate data is stored on employee endpoints. And cybercriminals are progressively targeting the valuable data contained on these enterprise endpoints, recognizing the higher return on investment compared to consumer prey.
Establishing endpoint resilience minimizes the impact of a cyberattack and restores employee endpoints and operational systems to ensure business continuity. CISOs need to move beyond protection-only measures and adopt endpoint resilience through these five essential steps:
- Prepare
- Protect
- Isolate
- Remediate
- Investigate