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Top 7 Tips to Protect Your Endpoint

Devices

By Nicole Allen, Senior Marketing Executive at Salt Communications

The threat landscape has become more sophisticated due to the new hybrid working lifestyle and
companies' use of connected devices has resulted in an ever-increasing number of attack surfaces.
Phishing and ransomware assaults are two of the most common and persistent endpoint threats. In order
to safeguard all of the new remote endpoints, COVID's quick change to working from home modified
some security objectives. Employees operating their devices outside your network perimeter are, without
a doubt, particularly vulnerable to cyberthreats. Organisations should keep in mind, however, that they
must also defend their own resources and systems.

How does endpoint security work?

Endpoint security protects end-user devices and the data travelling to and from them by adding additional
layers of security. Antivirus and malware protection, malicious activity detection, mobile phishing
prevention, internet browsing protection, and data encryption are all examples of this protection.

As discussed above, phishing and ransomware are two of the most common endpoint threats. Phishing
attacks can be distributed through genuine applications and used for a variety of goals, including

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