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Nearly half of enterprise endpoint devices present significant security risks.

Device sprawl is becoming a costly security headache with the average enterprise now managing approximately 135,000 endpoint devices, a new report finds.

Despite $4,252,500 of annual budget spent on endpoint protection, an average of 48% of devices - or 64,800 per enterprise - are at risk because they are no longer detected by an organization's IT department or the endpoints' operating systems have become outdated, according to the inaugural report, Managing Risks and Costs at the Edge, from Adaptiva and the Ponemon Institute.

63% of respondents reported that the lack of visibility into their endpoints is the most significant barrier to achieving a strong security posture.

"The plan to invest money in endpoint security content distribution is promising, but it's only one part of the solution," Kumar said.

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