Balancing Security Efficiency and Effectiveness

Confronting a growing number of alerts and tighter resources, government agencies must evaluate their existing security deployments in endpoint prevention, detection, and response for opportunities to reduce costs and leverage the right technology for more efficient endpoint security.

Let’s explore a few best practices that can drive new levels of security efficiency in endpoint security from Paul Miller, Security Strategist in Broadcom’s Enterprise Security Group.

Visibility into security environment: Visibility helps to both empower analysts and ease their workload. “Visibility gives you near real-time, or in some cases, predictive capabilities. That’s how you do threat detection and response and mitigate context switching for an analyst, reducing cognitive fatigue,” Miller explained.


Use automation to speed up workflows: Detection and response solutions often use automation to improve analyst efficiency — automating tasks that are traditionally labor-intensive and time-consuming. Automation and machine learning can look for anomalous patterns, flagging likely malicious intent and enabling analysts to mitigate threats.

Implement a robust application control solution: The right application control solution can help drive more efficient protection. When policies are enforced to ensure that only trusted applications can run, the solution can help block malware, tame shadow IT, and keep unauthorized software out of play. “With application control, you’re preemptively reducing the risk of a threat actor executing code in your environment,” Miller said.

Want more advice on how smarter endpoint detection and control can simplify security and strengthen protection? Download this quick takeaway resource, Balancing Security Efficiency and Effectiveness in Endpoint Protection.