Device Security Compliance

What Are The Challenges?

New threats and weaknesses emerge every day. It pays to have a modern, capable antivirus system in place which uses knowledge of global networks to quickly identify and block new threats.

However, it’s also important to have a tool which monitors, enables and reliably enforces the hundreds of possible security settings permutations on your devices as a second line of defence. This is often overlooked and is distinct from antivirus, which only mitigates active threats once you come into contact with them, and even then, only if it is already capable of recognising the threat.

Even in a smaller organisation, it is time consuming and error-prone to manually check the security settings of your devices periodically. A small organisation of 5 people is likely to have at least 15 separate devices to keep track of, once you allow for computers, servers, laptops, smartphones and tablets.

Even then, you must actively check the latest best practices and keep up-to-date with new features (and therefore potential security risks) across all your devices’ operating systems. In most organisations, this is completely impractical, and there is neither the time nor the budget to do this properly.

Advantages And Opportunities

• Lower Cyber Risk – Enjoy peace of mind that all your company devices, onsite or remote, have the best possible security configuration.
• Insurance Compliance – Demonstrate you are adhering to modern cyber best practices to ensure if the worst does happen, your Cyber Insurance policy remains valid.
• Better IT Oversight – One online dashboard to monitor and check the current compliance status of your devices, ideal for speeding through audits.
• Reduced Administration – Vastly simplify your protocols for checking and maintaining device security compliance.
• Lower Staff or IT Costs – More automatic remediation and less time spent checking devices means that your IT time and cost for remediation goes down, whether that’s outsourced or in-house.
• Faster Accreditation – Improve your organisation’s professional profile by easily achieving and maintaining Cyber Essentials or similar accreditations.