Cybersecurity spending will approach $125 billion this year, according to Gartner, which predicted the sector would grow more than 8 percent in 2019. Companies are using more security tools than ever before — more than 130 on average for an enterprise. Yet data breaches are up 54 percent so far this year, and the price the average company pays to mitigate a data breach has increased to almost $4 million.
With risks on the rise, it’s understandable that companies are spending more on cybersecurity solutions. The problem is, more isn’t necessarily better. As tools are added to the stack, redundancies inevitably occur, which can be expensive. Cybersecurity tools that rely on an Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) strategy consume scarce IT/Sec-Ops resources as personnel spend time running down alerts.
There’s a better way. Instead of adding to the stack year after year, CISOs can improve safety by building a strong foundation with AppGuard to keep devices safe, then taking inventory of the security stack to eliminate duplicate efforts and conserve labor resources. Examining how AppGuard interacts with tools used at the kernel level, network, data, and IT/Sec-Ops levels is a good place to start.
When AppGuard is deployed, the IT team can eliminate redundant tools that AppGuard replaces and allow AppGuard to operate simultaneously with solutions that it improves or enhances. Here’s an overview of how deploying AppGuard affects cybersecurity tools that are in place to protect endpoints:
| AppGuard on the Device | ||
| Replaces/Ends | Replaces or Improves | Enhances |
| Machine learning antivirus
Application whitelisting/control Anti-exploit Host intrusion prevention system Behavior analytics App sandbox/virtualization |
Native OS antivirus
EDR |
Patch management
Password management Disk encryption Device control DLP Native OS firewall Backup |
Deploying AppGuard also improves cybersecurity on the network, replacing and ending the need for certain tools and enhancing the operation of others:
| AppGuard on the Network | ||
| Replaces/Ends | Replaces or Improves | Enhances |
| Network sandbox
Unified threat management |
Next-gen firewall
Breach detection Email security & proxies |
Software-defined networks
Intrusion detection system Federated identity |
AppGuard improves data security by eliminating the need for or enhancing the use of user entity behavior analytics, and it enhances Security Information and Event Management (SIEM) software and services that analyze security alerts in real-time:
| Data and AppGuard | |
| Replaces or Improves | Enhances |
| User entity behavior analytics | SIEM |
For IT/Sec-Ops teams, deploying AppGuard can be transformative. AppGuard is proactive rather than reactive, stopping malware before it can cause harm with patented dynamic isolation and inheritance technologies that don’t interfere with normal app operation:
| IT/Sec-Ops and AppGuard | ||
| Replaces/Ends | Replaces or Improves | Enhances |
| Alerts fatigue
Endpoint quarantine |
Remediation (Restoration)
Network admission control |
Incident response
Employee cyber readiness prep Threat intelligence & hunting |
AppGuard takes the pressure off of patch management, running for months or even years without requiring policy updates. The IT/Sec-Ops team will still need to install patches, but with AppGuard in place to protect the system through kernel level policy enforcement, known threats can’t be exploited while awaiting action on the patch release, and zero-day threats are mitigated as well.
So, if you’re looking for a way to rationalize your cybersecurity stack, consider using AppGuard as a foundation, building on AppGuard’s proactive approach to replace and/or enhance many reactive tools that you’re probably already using. To find out more about the scale of the threat and how these technologies interact, download our whitepaper: How to Optimize Your Cybersecurity Stack.