Executive Summary In the year 2016 alone, the world learned about security breaches that compromised nearly 2 billion records.1 Employee endpoints are increasingly targeted: Nearly two thirds (64%) of external attacks last year targeted a corporate-owned, employee-owned or mobile device.2 Data breaches cost companies time and money, weaken brand reputation and jeopardise customer and employee trust.
As companies embrace cloud services and encourage employee mobility, digital interactions with company resources have become more distributed and virtualised, blurring the traditional concept of the endpoint. Optimising traditional and nontraditional endpoints for access to cloud services is critical, particularly when it comes to security. To protect company and customer data, it is increasingly necessary for enterprises to revisit how they approach endpoint security.