15 Shocking Stats About Endpoint Security Solutions

Let’s face it…threats against your business are on the rise and your board has zero-tolerance for security issues. The stats you’ll see below while are shocking, they can help you understand the benefits of optimizing your security strategy for endpoints with machine learning and artificial intelligence.

What are Endpoint Security Solutions?

When a device is connected to your network, it’s considered an endpoint. Hackers see endpoints as an easy point of entry to your organization. Endpoint security solutions are the services around securing endpoints from those hackers. Endpoint security solutions have evolved from Antivirus to Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR), to Managed Detection and Response (MDR), to XDR.

Cybriant’s Endpoint Security Solution is called Managed Detection and Remediation (MDR) because our team helps our clients to remediate any issues discovered through the MDR process.

Learn More About Cybriant’s MDR Service Here.

As the volume and sophistication of cybersecurity threats have steadily grown, so has the need for more advanced endpoint security solutions. Today’s endpoint protection systems are designed to quickly detect, analyze, block, and contain attacks in progress. To do this, they need to collaborate with each other and with other security technologies to give administrators visibility into advanced threats to speed detection and remediation response times.

Prevent security breaches with endpoint detection and response. Our team utilizes artificial intelligence that will help stop advanced threats and malware at the most vulnerable point — the endpoint.

Cybriant uses a “prevention-first” technology — we stop attacks before they cause harm, vs allowing attacks to happen, then clean up the mess. By reducing the number of endpoint security products deployed on the endpoint, customers gain operational efficiencies by not having to manage signatures, policies, or deployments of additional protection.

Read more, “4 Necessary Tools to Prevent Security Breaches.”

What is Considered an Endpoint?

To put it simply, an endpoint is any device that communicates with the network in which it is connected. Here are some examples of endpoints:

• Laptops
• Desktops
• Mobile Phones
• Tablets
• Servers
• Virtual Environments

According to Gartner, “Organizations investing in endpoint security tools are purposefully moving from an ‘incident response’ mentality to one of ‘continuous monitoring’ in search of incidents that they know are constantly occurring.

Read more, “Could an Endpoint Security Service Be Your Secret Cybersecurity Weapon?”

15 Shocking Stats About Endpoint Security Solutions

– There are at least 5.8 billion enterprise endpoints in use in 2020 Source

– 68% of organizations were victims of endpoint attacks in 2019 Source

– 91% of cyberattacks start with a phish, the top reasons people are duped by phishing emails are curiosity (13.7%), fear (13.4%), and urgency (13.2%), followed by reward/recognition, social, entertainment, and opportunity. Source

– The endpoint security market is expected to grow at a CAGR of 5.9% from 2020 to reach $18.6 billion by 2027. Source

– Only 53% of employer-owned mobile devices are centrally managed. Whereas 77% of servers and approximately 73% of both laptops and desktops are centrally managed. For employee-owned devices or BYOD, only 27% of mobile devices and 18% of laptops are centrally managed. Source

– Almost 15% of organizations are not using any endpoint security solution. Source

– Employer-owned desktops and laptops are the most often compromised endpoints. The types of endpoints reported being compromised — employer-owned desktops (69% total), and laptops (67%) top the list, of most frequently impacted, followed by servers (51% for dev, database, email, web, DNS, etc. and 47% for line of business/legacy servers), employee-owned mobile devices (36%), employee-owned laptops (35%) and cloud servers (29%)/ applications (28%). Source

– 42% of all endpoints are unprotected at any given time. Source

– The FBI recently reported that the number of complaints about cyberattacks to their Cyber Division is up to as many as 4,000 a day. That represents a 400% increase from what they were seeing pre-coronavirus. Source

– 20% of IT managers who were victim to one or more cyberattacks last year can’t pinpoint how the attackers gained entry, and 17 percent don’t know how long the threat was in the environment before it was detected. Source

– Organizations are spending 85% of the time investigating non-issues, equivalent to around 41 days each year. Source

– For 54% of organizations, Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) was money wasted as they didn’t have the resources to manage the tool properly. Source

– Email accounts for 94% of malware delivery methods — web-based attacks account for 23% of cases, while Office documents were used in 45% of cases (Source)

– By 2021, cybercriminals will cost the world $11.4m each minute, fueled by greater ease of entry into cybercrime and more opportunities to leverage global events like COVID-19 in successful threat campaigns (Source)

– Cybriant’s Managed Detection and Response (MDR) service offers a trial period that is 100% free for 30 Days. (Source)

Read more about using AI to enhance your endpoint security.