Endpoint Protection
What is Endpoint Protection?
Security software and policies deployed on endpoint devices such as laptops, desktops, and mobile devices to protect against malware, exploits, and unauthorized access.
Terms that appear alongside endpoint protection
Each of these is named in at least one of the same controls as endpoint protection. The number is how many controls name both.
- cybersecurity 8 shared controls
- vulnerability 7 shared controls
- encryption 5 shared controls
- access management 5 shared controls
- nist 5 shared controls
- network segmentation 4 shared controls
- application security 4 shared controls
- audit 4 shared controls
Frameworks that govern endpoint protection
What the standards actually require on endpoint protection
Requirements naming endpoint protection across 6 standards, quoted from the control text.
Endpoint protections, such as secure configuration, security applications and host monitoring, are implemented where feasible and at least in an ad hoc way on assets important to the delivery of the function.
australian-energy-sector-cyber-security-framework-aescsf::ARCHITECTURE-3b · ARCHITECTURE-3b: Endpoint protections for important assets →Keep endpoint protection and scanning software that detects and deals with malware up to date and managed; give onboard computers the same protection as computers in the shore office, with anti-malware installed and updated on all work and personal devices on...
BIMCO-8.2 · Malware detection →The department defines the IT security approaches that will steer control selection and security design, consistent with its security philosophy and priorities, using the business needs, security categories, threat assessment, control objectives and recognised...
canada-itsg-33-it-security-risk-management::A1-4.2.7.2 · 4.2.7.2 Define IT security approaches →The auditor attempts to download known malicious files from a test URL list via supported browsers to verify web filtering and endpoint protection blocks the payload.
CEP-MA-04 · Web Browsing Malware Test →Undertakings implement procedures ensuring CIA of ICT systems and services: vulnerability identification and remediation (patching, antivirus, compensating controls); secure configuration baselines;
EIOPA-ICTSG-GL.10 · ICT operations security →Security management comprises the organizational, process and technical measures that keep regulated systems, data and records confidential, intact and available, minimizing internal and external threats: controls against unauthorized or inadvertent access, ro...
gamp-5-good-automated-manufacturing-practice::O11 · Appendix O11 Security Management →Questions people ask about endpoint protection
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