Security News > 2022 > July > Businesses are adding more endpoints, but can’t manage them all

Despite $4,252,500 of annual budget spent on endpoint protection, an average of 48 percent of devices - or 64,800 per enterprise - are at risk because they are no longer detected by the organization's IT department or the endpoints' operating systems have become outdated.

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

61 percent of respondents say distribution points have increased in the last two years, and the average endpoint has as many as 7 agents installed for remote management, further adding to management complexity.

62 percent of respondents say new OS and application versions are the most difficult to maintain across all endpoints, followed by patches and security updates at 59 percent, and network settings and connectivity issues at 50 percent.

66 percent of respondents say that their organizations don't have ample resources to minimize endpoint risk.

"Unfortunately, most organizations are running uphill with endpoint management tools that weren't designed for today's distributed, decentralized, and digital-first world. IT needs tools that provide organizations with total and complete visibility over their endpoints, with real-time and continuous delivery of content to keep them healthy, patched, and secure. This won't be achieved by the dominant endpoint management solutions in the market today, which still rely on bloated centralized infrastructure, in the cloud and on-prem."

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