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Automox, the cloud-native endpoint hardening platform provider, announced it will offer its automated endpoint hardening platform at discounted cost to 2020 presidential and congressional campaigns in partnership with Defending Digital Campaigns. Through the partnership, Automox is offering its cloud-native cyber hygiene platform to political campaigns to provide access to holistic endpoint hardening that automates the enforcement of critical patches, software updates, security configurations and more.

Adaptiva, a leading, global provider of endpoint management and security solutions for enterprise customers, announced the groundbreaking Adaptiva OneSite Intune Edition. This new product makes Adaptiva the first and only third-party software delivery system for Microsoft Intune, enabling Intune to scale to hundreds of thousands of endpoints per enterprise.

Quest Software, a global systems management, data protection and security software provider, announced new feature updates for several of its KACE solution offerings. KACE, a solution-set available from the Quest Unified Endpoint Management business, empower organizations to take control of their network-connected devices and automate endpoint management tasks to ensure license compliance and a secure network.

To help plug it, Citrix Systems has launched App Protection, which enables companies to protect apps and data on unmanaged endpoints and ensure their corporate systems and information remain safe. "Endpoints are the penultimate control point for the implementation of device, application, and data security. The rapid acceleration of remote work sparked by the COVID-19 pandemic and proliferation of unmanaged personal devices being used for business has created a special challenge, as decentralization is not the friend of security," said Frank Dickson, Program Vice President, Security & Trust, IDC. "And specialized and sophisticated tools are required to overcome it."

Cygilant, provider of Cybersecurity-as-a-Service to mid-sized organizations, launched Cygilant Endpoint Security, a new solution that will give companies greater visibility into suspicious activity taking place on network endpoints. Cygilant Endpoint Security is an agent-based solution that collects real-time security data from a company's critical assets, detects suspicious files, services and other activity - and then streams alerts to the 24×7 Cygilant Security Operations Center for further investigation and action.

New research from Tanium reveals that 72 percent of US CIOs find previously undiscovered computing devices on a daily or weekly basis. Even if remote unprotected endpoints are identified, they may be left unfixed due to the considerable bandwidth and time required to connect them via VPN to a centralized patch management solution.

Ivanti, the company that unifies IT to better manage and secure the digital workplace, announced the expansion of its growing portfolio of enterprise service management solutions with the launch of Ivanti Assistants which enable endpoint self-healing capabilities. "Ivanti Assistants are a new family of cloud-based automation bots that provide endpoint self-healing capabilities and give IT organizations their very own 24/7 virtual support team," said Ian Aitchison, senior product director at Ivanti.

Through this growing partnership, CrowdStrike customers can now proactively reduce their endpoint attack surface by up to 80%, and dramatically reduce the alert fatigue caused by unpatched and misconfigured systems. Automox's cloud-native cyber hygiene platform automates the fundamentals of endpoint hardening to dramatically reduce corporate attack surface up to 80% while decreasing alert fatigue common in downstream endpoint detection and response tools.

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Less than 50 percent of organizations can patch vulnerable systems swiftly enough to protect against critical threats and zero-day attacks, and 81 percent have suffered at least one data breach in the last two years, according to Automox. The research surveyed 560 IT operations and security professionals at enterprises with between 500 and 25,000 employees, across more than 15 industries to benchmark the state of endpoint patching and hardening.