Endpoint is not Endpoint

A new Year, a new start. The Endpoint Security Market is OPEN!

Endpoint is not Endpoint. Endpoint is used for Mobile Devices (Laptop, Tablet, etc.) It’s all about Who uses the Devices, what is the devices for and what content do they want to use? Short: Classical North-South Traffic.

Datacenter Endpoints called Workloads: Within the Datacenter we see Applications talk to Applications, Applications talk to Data. Short: Classical East-West Traffic.

Gartner addresses these Topics in Critical Capabilities for Endpoint Protection Platforms, Magic Quadrant available. The Workload is addressed in Market Guide for Cloud Workload Protection Platforms that Enterprises are putting enterprise data and application at risk, if they consider EPP offerings designed soleley for protecting end-user devices for server workload protection.

That does not mean, that a customer needs to choose different Vendors/Products to solve different Security challenges. To understand that Endpoints and Workloads are different and needs to threaten different is easy. It might be, that customers are having different requirements, even if this is the tricky part to get them all and consider different disciplines.

There are a lot more Topics to cover, stay calm, more to come.