Outsourcing your network security to a third-party provider will decrease the drain on your internal resources and ensure immediate, high-quality help-desk service. Endpoint security – offered by Canon Canada in partnership with Supra ITS – defends your organization’s network endpoints (desktops, laptops and mobile devices) from malicious activity. With so many companies now offering remote and hybrid work options, the security surface of organizations has expanded. Strong endpoint security locks cybercriminals out of your network.

Canon endpoint services focus on managing the detection and response of cyber threats. It goes beyond standard security measures such as antivirus and firewall software, and IP filtering. It detects malware, file-less attacks, zero-day attacks and abnormal behaviour. For example, standard antivirus software works off a database of known bad signatures (viruses). If a bad file moves onto a device, the database scans it and raises an alert. Canon endpoint security detects viruses when there is no signature to compare. It also does behavioural analysis. If files suddenly start moving from your device onto Google Drive, standard antivirus won’t flag it – no files are being added to your device to compare with the database of signatures. Endpoint security, however, will notice it’s inconsistent with your usual behaviour and sound the alarm.

With more employees working from home or in a hybrid environment, they may connect their corporate devices to their personal wireless network. Should they inadvertently download a malicious file, it can spread laterally when the device connects to the office network. Endpoint security monitors the activity on those devices and can remotely isolate and contain them, halting the spread of anything harmful.

The rise in cyber attacks has caused more companies to seek cyber insurance; in turn, providers are being more selective with offering coverage and more demanding with their requirements. These prerequisites can include having multifactor authentication for logins and administering employer cybersecurity-awareness training. Insurance providers may also require a company have cybersecurity measures already in place, and that an outside party is regularly auditing these measures.