Endpoint Security in 2025: Predicting the Trends That Will Shape the Future of Cyber Defense
Endpoint Security in 2025: Predicting the Trends That Will Shape the Future of Cyber Defense
Endpoint Security in 2025: Predicting the Trends That Will Shape the Future of Cyber Defense
As the cybersecurity landscape continues to evolve, endpoint security continues to garner a lot of attention as cyber-attacks and data breaches seem to become daily headlines. As endpoint security becomes a critical area of focus for organizations of all sizes, organizations need to stay ahead of the curve to keep their organizations safe and productive. By 2025, how we protect our devices will need to evolve along with the continued prevalence of hybrid work, increasing sophistication of cyberattacks and a shifting approach to the traditional network architecture.
Let’s take a closer look at what will shape endpoint security in the new year and what it means for your business or organization.
Greater Adoption of EDR Tools in Small to Medium-sized Businesses (SMBs)
For SMBs, endpoint detection and response (EDR) tools are becoming must haves. SMBs are facing the same threats that torment larger enterprises and are targeted more often by attackers due to the fact that smaller organizations often lack the resources or expertise to adequately defend their digital infrastructure. Historically, EDR tools were seen as something only large enterprises could afford or manage, but that’s quickly changing. As SMBs are facing the same advanced threats, they need comprehensive protection too. Therefore, SMBs are moving away from traditional anti-virus (AV) tools and investing in the more robust protection of EDR tools.
The catch? SMBs don’t have big IT teams or the time to manage complex security operations. They need solutions that are not only affordable but easy to use. By 2025, SMBs will be looking for EDR tools that are more “set and forget,” with automation and easy cloud-based management. This way, they can get the robust protection they need without adding to their workload or the complexity of disjointed security solutions.
Shift to Adopting MDR Services by Partnering with a Security Operations Center (SOC)
Building your own SOC is costly and can be a compliance headache. For most businesses and managed service providers (MSPs), it’s simply not practical to run a full-scale SOC with 24/7 monitoring and threat hunting on top of all their typical responsibilities. That’s why many businesses are turning to Managed Detection and Response (MDR) services or partnering with an external SOC.
In 2025, outsourcing security operations to an MDR provider will be the norm for many businesses. This approach lets companies tap into the cybersecurity expertise and processes without the overhead of running a SOC in-house. Partnering with an external SOC or MDR provider allows businesses to focus on what they do best and grow their business all while still having the ultimate peace of mind in knowing that their endpoints are being protected 24/7.
Zero Trust Architecture Expansion
Zero trust is becoming a staple in the security world and is one of the most effective ways to protect networks. The core idea is simple: “never trust, always verify.” With zero trust, even if someone (or something) gains access to part of your network, they won’t have free reign to your entire network and applications. Every user, device or app trying to access data needs to be constantly checked and authenticated. These zero trust principles are key to stopping threats and preventing lateral spread within a network.
By 2025, zero trust principles will continue to evolve to encompass endpoint security. As remote work and cloud-based apps continue to be the norm, endpoints will need to be a part of the organization’s digital transformation looking forwards. Endpoints need to be continuously verified with device posture checks to ensure they are secure. This means that endpoint security solutions should and will have the capacity to integrate into the expanding zero trust architecture security model.
The Increasing Need for Integration Between Endpoint Security Tools and the Entire Security Stack
Endpoints have always been a prime target for cyberattacks. Whether on or off the network, they’re often an entry point for hackers to compromise a network. Once attackers gain control of an endpoint they can move laterally across your network, causing widespread and ultimately costly damage. That’s why it’s so critical to have integrations between endpoint, network and cloud security tools. For example, by integrating your endpoint security solution with your cloud security solution, these tools can work together to determine the device posture on the endpoint to then grant access to the appropriate cloud SaaS application.
Businesses will need security solutions that communicate across all layers of the network, providing seamless comprehensive protection. Integrated solutions between the endpoint and other facets of your digital infrastructure means faster detection and better coordination when responding to threats. With everything from endpoints to firewalls and cloud security tools working together, it will be easier to detect and stop attackers before a headache becomes a real security emergency.
Protect Your Endpoints with Ease
As we look towards this upcoming year, it’s clear that endpoint security will play an even bigger role in keeping businesses both small and large safe from cyber threats. We’re expecting to see more SMBs embracing EDR tools and the MSPs that serve them shift towards partnering with SOCs or using MDR services to streamline security operations while safeguarding organizations around the clock. Zero trust principles will continue to be a cornerstone of security strategies, expanding to the approach to securing endpoints as well. Plus, the growing need for stronger integrations between endpoint security and the rest of the security stack will mean that organizations are looking for tools that can integrate seamlessly withing a holistic security architecture.
SonicWall Solutions Are Here to Help
At SonicWall, we’re here to help you navigate these changes and keep you and your customers’ endpoints protected with cost-effective enterprise grade solutions. Capture Client is a unified endpoint security solution powered by a dual engine that provides layered defenses as the endpoint that is key to stopping modern threats. On top of that, you can partner with SonicWall’s SOC to combine your endpoint security tool of your choice with the expertise of our MDR service that works around the clock to ensure that you’re protected at all times. Talk to our team today to get started with both.
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