Brief: Endpoint Security Innovation Is Intensifying

For your employees to do their very best work, they need access to a wide range of business applications and sensitive information — often from whatever endpoint device they deem appropriate. Unfortunately, adversaries target employee desktops and laptops and use them as a beachhead into the corporate infrastructure where your servers reside. Today's threats have long since surpassed traditional antivirus capabilities, and security and risk (S&R) professionals need endpoint security solutions that build resiliency against these threats. After many prolonged years of scant innovation, a new generation of endpoint security solutions is finally emerging. In the first half of 2015, Cybereason, Digital Guardian, Fidelis Cybersecurity, Resolution1 Security, Savant Protection, and Tanium have all made the headlines for either significant investment rounds or acquisitions in endpoint security. In this brief, Forrester examines the current innovations in the endpoint security market and includes specific recommendations on how to navigate the vendor landscape and select the right partner that is most appropriate for your cybersecurity needs.