Risks to the Endpoint When Using Cloud Services

While there has been a lot of talk about creating security standards for cloud services, one area that is completely in the user’s control is endpoint security. It is important that you feel secure in the companies you use for your cloud services but don’t forget about the endpoint.

If your endpoint devices such as notebook, PC’s, or tablets aren’t secure or your employees don’t have proper guidelines or information about keeping their endpoints secure, your company data is at risk for many serious security threats. The most vulnerable activities are when conducting an online transaction or accessing your cloud-based services.

Screen scrapers, key loggers, DNS redirects, viruses, worms, Trojan horses … these are just some of the threats that are facing your business when your employees access the Internet even for work-related purposes. Once your endpoint device is infected, your data is seriously at risk. You may think that you have kept your network free of infections and have very effective malware detection programs in place, but there are new security threats surfacing every day and the industry is always a step behind with the solution.

SafeCentral has a different approach to keeping your data safe. SafeCentral’s WebProtection™, a one-time install, light-weight data loss prevention (DLP) application, operates under the assumption that the user’s machine is already infected with malware ensuring that endpoint data is secure. WebProtection™ interprets and intercepts over 5,000 discrete Windows commands (from write to disk, to save in RAM and beyond) and effectively blocks all potentially dangerous activities except those processes needed for the transaction. Unlike other tools, WebProtection™ goes down deep into the DNA of the Windows operating system and is able to control all processes during a secured transaction. An easy and reasonable way to keep your endpoint data safe during regardless of how secure your endpoint device is.