If you were expecting a return to business as usual in a centralized work environment, you may need to adjust your expectations.
And while you do, keep in mind solutions such as Fortinet’s FortiEDR and FortiEndpoint, which have been built from the ground up to secure any organization’s WFA expansions.
According to the Stanford Institute for Economic and Policy Research and the Atlanta Fed, only 12 percent of businesses anticipate a Return-to-Office (RTO) policy in the coming year.
“In summary, U.S. firms do not see any material trend to return to office,” the Stanford-Fed research says.
And of those, only a fraction will require working in an office five days a week. For solution providers, the call to action to secure work environments will continue to rise. Work from Anywhere (WFA) is here to stay.
Addressing Challenges
Fortinet has designed FortiEDR/XDR - its endpoint detection and response solution - to address the list of challenges in securing distributed networks and keeping them efficient.
FortiEDR provides swift installation of a collector agent without a reboot and minimal impact on device resources, including CPU, memory, and disk space. Fortinet, which pioneered the convergence of networking and cybersecurity, designed FortiEDR for rapid deployment, interoperability with other security technology, and a fast ROI.
FortiEDR performs across all geographies and all platforms with one of the best support offerings for legacy as well as mobile OS.
Threat detection gets a boost with AI in the Fortinet solution, adding protection in real-time as new malicious actors appear.
These FortiEDR features mean solution providers can work with customers to deliver security without the added cost of avoidable network overhead.
Efficiency also just means better security.
“Most endpoint security products today operate in silos, with uncorrelated logs and alerts causing significant visibility gaps and management challenges for security operation teams,” writes Ankit Gupta, Director of product marketing for Fortinet’s Endpoint Security, in a recent blog post. “This fragmentation makes detecting and responding to threats difficult, increasing the risk of breaches.”
Ecosystem Integration
But there’s more now than FortiEDR. Fortinet also provides FortiEndpoint - a unified client that combines the features of FortiClient and FortiEDR, including endpoint security, secure connectivity including ZTNA, advanced threat detection, and response.
This takes it “beyond conventional endpoint protection by offering a comprehensive solution that is integrated into your broader security ecosystem,” Gupta writes.
More details on FortiEDR can be found here.