Monday, April 4, 2011

Endpoint Security - Mind Your Network From Afar For Consistency

Many people are unaware of the term Endpoint security but this becomes a very useful term in recent days. There is a need to create some knowledge about the software because many people think that there is no any literal definition of the term Endpoint security but the term relates to the thought that the individual parts of the system are made for the security of the system from different kind of spam and virus. This application helps to control the security related problems.

To understand the concept of endpoint security you must understand how the security software like firewalls and different anti-virus work and give the options of how to protect the system. An endpoint security program is installed on you server and provides you complete knowledge of how to manage and update the security of your endpoint (PC's, Computers, Laptops etc).

After installation of endpoint security, the server becomes responsible for the protection of all of its endpoints, so there is no need for endpoints (PC’s, Laptops or computer system) to acquire the security software individually. The server can itself provides the security updates and security threats (if found in any endpoint) to all of its endpoints when it get connected to the internet, so endpoints can secure it selves without wasting money and time on getting extra endpoint security system.

The most commonly used endpoint security is the firewall and the antivirus. Besides these two now there are also some other protections are available in the market and you can also get them from internet to make your system as protected as you want it to be.

Now a huge range of security systems are available which are not only being used for home-computers, but also useful for the computer networks of different companies as well. This program gives server an excess to keep a check about security purposes. Each endpoint of a system is now accessible and controllable by the administrator or the user of the system.

Our computer system can be affected by viruses through both internal and external devices (flash drive, data cables etc) that we use in excess with our computers as a routine thing. As the external devices are the surest way of entering virus in our computer so endpoint security allows us to secure our system from all kinds of viruses that might damage our computer system due to the usage of external devices. In the same way endpoint security system also make it possible for us to secure our systems from those viruses that might attack on our computer system due to the usage of internet. Apart from all these facilities endpoint security system allows the server to control and observe all the activities of its endpoints for security purposes so the server can lock the external devices as well as it can prohibit the installations of any kind of software from internet on its endpoints due to security reasons.

If you own a company having large number of employees and you do not want to allow the access to all the employees then you could have the better option of Endpoint security. Through this you can have your personal logins and passwords that can control the security issues in the system. This can protects the misuse of the system by the employees. This allows you to check all the activities going on in your office. This is very easy to sort out the problem by using Endpoint security system.

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