Choosing the Right Cloud
In an attempt to take advantage of the clear benefits that come with cloud computing, many traditional endpoint security vendors have begun offering cloud versions of their solutions. However, not all security clouds are built the same.
In fact, most cloud-based antivirus options available today are retrofit solutions that have simply migrated their on premises products to vendor-managed servers. Under the covers, they still operate with the same outdated technologies that only protect against malware threats after they have been discovered. Customers are left with weak protection in a rapidly accelerating threat landscape.
On the other hand, a cloud built on bi-directional communication with endpoints, where endpoint data is sent to a cloud-based big data and real-time analytics engine, transforms the endpoint environment into a global threat monitoring system. The cloud is predictive, able to discover threats never seen before and provide protection from sophisticated attacks to every endpoint under management.
When evaluating your next endpoint security solution, the following table will help you determine if the cloud solution you are looking at will deliver on the full promise of cloud computing for security.
| Traditional AV (Retrofit Cloud) |
Next-Gen Endpoint Security (Big Data Cloud) |
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| Threat Detection | Malware Only Focuses on executable-based threats. |
Malware and Fileless Detects executable-based threats as well as advanced attacks that don’t use malware. |
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| Endpoint Communications | Broadcast “Black-box” threat information is broadcast one-way to endpoints, with no data collected from them. |
Bi-directional Threat data is exchanged back and forth between endpoints and the cloud, creating a global threat monitoring system. |
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| Data Collection | None Endpoint data is not sent to the cloud, leaving users with no context about security events. |
Unfiltered Endpoint telemetry is sent to the cloud, providing a complete contextual picture for investigation against them. |
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| Security Posture | Reactive Protects against known threats and limited attack behaviors. |
Predictive Discovers new threats never seen before and protects against them. |
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| Updates | Manual and Delayed The customer is responsible for applying updates, keeping policies configured correctly, and deploying new defense techniques when they are available. |
Automatic and Real-Time Every endpoint benefits from new defense techniques and algorithms deployed natively in the cloud, along with easy, lightweight agent updates. |
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