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"Endpoints are the new front line in the cyber war, and organizations are shifting their defenses as a result" ... what do they mean by 'endpoint' ?

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Each node or computing device is an endpoint. Endpoint security is the new industry terminology for antivirus/antimalware/etc.

It's a very old term; endpoint security is in contrast to network security, where you try to block bad things at network boards. Firewalls are the archetypical network defense, antivirus (very unfortunately) the archetypical endpoint defense; osquery would be an example of a modern open-source endpoint security tool.

thoughts on CarbonBlack or Palo Alto’s Traps? Separate category, but what about OKTA?? (I hear they are crushing it)

Do you think what ServiceNow is doing in ITSM is really special?

It's often got quite a different focus to antivirus/anitmalware, a lot more about identifying and preventing data exfiltration for example.

Endpoints are the machines (desktops, servers, &c) in organizations which have Carbon Black installed. Their client continuously monitors for process executions, network connections, file changes, registry changes, and samples unique files on the machine, and depending on configuration, can upload these contents both within the enterprise and share them with their cloud platform. That's what is meant by "our technology uniquely collects complete, "unfiltered" endpoint data by continuously recording endpoint activity and centrally storing the collected data for advanced analytics".

Computer systems end users access web/email with.

I deployed Bit9/Carbon Black a few years ago.

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