Thank Ransomware For Next-Gen Endpoint Security Momentum

16th November 2016  By Kelly Jackson Higgins
 
More organizations are getting serious about making the move to newer endpoint security technologies that go beyond signature-based detection.
 Ransomware may actually benefit endpoint security in the end: the in-your-face and painful attack that blackmails organizations by locking them out of their own data and applications in exchange for money has motivated more enterprises to craft new endpoint security plans beyond traditional antivirus and host intrusion prevention systems.
 
The shift away from reliance on signature-based AV, HIPS, and other traditional endpoint security tools over the past three years has been a fairly gradual evolution initially inspired by concerns over nation-state actors targeting endpoints with malware that no AV would detect.
 
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