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Think layered protection, infrastructure integration, and a user-centric design model

By joltsik
02/15/12

Back in 2007, ESG asked 206 IT enterprise security professionals to respond to the following statement: Endpoint security has become a commodity market with little difference between products. A majority (58%) of respondents either “strongly agreed” or “agreed” with this statement.

ESG plans will be conducting new research on endpoint security later in 2012 and will ask respondents a similar type of questions. My guess is that the data will be quite similar to what it was 5 years ago. I understand this perspective, but if I were asked to respond to the statement above, I would “strongly disagree.” In my humble opinion, endpoint security is actually going through a transformative period featuring strong innovation featuring:

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