FEATURE: ENDPOINT PROTECTION
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Channel partners have an
important role to play in
helping organisations ensure
they have robust security
strategies in place. And
with increasing numbers of
businesses moving to remote
working models, it’s more
important than ever for
organisations to review and
bolster their endpoint security
policies. Tamer Odeh, Regional
Director at SentinelOne in the
Middle East, talks us through
the key threats to the endpoint
and outlines how organisations
can ensure they have a
comprehensive endpoint
security strategy in place.
CCan you give us an overview
of some of the key threats to
the endpoint?
The endpoint is vulnerable to many types of
cyberattacks that include:
• Malware – Executables such as trojans,
malware, worms, backdoors, payloadbased
attacks
• Malware – Fileless includes memory-only
malware, no-disk-based indicators
• Exploits of documents – Exploits rooted
in Office documents, Adobe files, macros,
spear-phishing emails
Securing
the endpoin
in the age of re
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