The Importance of EPP With cyber attacks continuing unabated, neglecting endpoint security is dangerous and potentially catastrophic. Organisations must adopt reliable endpoint security solutions to prevent threat actors from hijacking business systems or stealing sensitive data. Kaspersky The recent decision by the US government to ban the sales of Kaspersky antivirus software due to its ties to Russia underscores the importance of a trustworthy software supply chain.

Extended detection and response, better known as XDR, is a security technology that combines multiple point solutions, including but not limited to endpoint protection and endpoint security tools, into a unified incident detection and response platform. First described in 2018 by Palo Alto Networks' CTO Nir Zuk, XDR collects, correlates, and contextualises alerts from different solutions across endpoints, servers, networks, applications, and cloud workloads.

Threat actors prefer deploying tools which appear genuine and expected in a business IT environment. This provides camouflage for their toolset, blending into organisations' application portfolios. NetSupport Manager, a remote access tool, has been utilised by system administrators since its release in 1989 and has been used by threat actors since at least 2016.