Endpoint Security Solutions

Endpoint security plays a pivotal role in creating comprehensive protection for businesses. 

Think of it like this: The more doors and windows a burglar has to break through, the more opportunities they have to steal something from your home. In this scenario, your devices represent the doors and windows, and the burglar represents malicious files and network traffic. But when you protect endpoints with the most stringent security possible, you’re giving yourself the best shot at repelling cyber attacks and cyber criminals.

Here are the most notable forms of endpoint security for your consideration:

Antivirus/ anti-malware: Tools that detect and remove viruses, spyware, trojans, etc. While they’ve been around for a while in their original form, modern endpoint security antivirus software features machine learning (ML) to detect and eliminate threats before they have the chance to begin an attack.

Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR): These solutions monitor devices and alert administrators to anomalies and suspicious activity while taking action to remove threats. They can even isolate devices from a network, ensuring threats don’t spread any further.

Firewalls: A classic choice used alongside other security technologies, firewalls create a “barrier” between the devices they’re installed on and the wider network, preventing dangerous or unusual traffic from causing damage. Again, several versions have been improved with ML and AI in recent years.

Encryption: This scrambles data stored on a device or passed through cyberspace between devices over an internet connection, so that hackers are unable to use the information to their advantage.

To find out more about the types of endpoint security we offer, speak to a Netcentrix expert today.

Because our services differ from business to business, we don’t offer a blanket figure. Instead, we take the time to get to know your business, your ways of working and the security tools you’re currently using. Then, we’ll put together an endpoint security package that comprehensively protects your entire device catalogue, with prices that meet your needs precisely.

Antivirus is a component of endpoint security, not a synonym for it. Traditional antivirus detects and removes known threats based on signatures – if the threat is recognised, it’s blocked. Modern endpoint security goes further, using behavioural detection, machine learning, and EDR capabilities to identify threats that don’t match known signatures, including fileless attacks, zero-day exploits, and lateral movement through your environment. Antivirus is a starting point; endpoint security is the full picture.

Endpoint protection platforms (EPP) focus on prevention – stopping threats from executing in the first place through antivirus, firewall, and device controls. Endpoint detection and response (EDR) focuses on what happens when prevention fails: detecting threats that have already got through, investigating how, and containing them before they spread. The two are complementary – EPP reduces the attack surface, EDR handles what gets through. N-Force EDR provides the detection and response layer on top of whatever endpoint protection is already in place.

Endpoint security is directly relevant to several compliance obligations. GDPR requires the ability to detect and report data breaches – something significantly harder without active endpoint monitoring. Cyber Essentials has specific endpoint requirements covering malware protection, patch management, and access controls, all of which a managed endpoint security service addresses as standard. ISO 27001 requires documented security controls across the device estate, and N-Force’s reporting provides the audit trail needed to evidence those controls. For businesses working toward any of these frameworks, speak to our team about how endpoint security fits into your wider compliance posture – or visit our security audits page for more on how we support the certification process.