Endpoint protection project objective

Endpoint protection project objective is to implement a comprehensive endpoint protection solution across the organization’s IT infrastructure. This solution will safeguard all workstations, laptops, mobile devices, and servers against cyber threats, ensuring the highest level of security for the organization’s data and systems. The project can implement the organization’s selected solution or propose a modern EDR (Endpoint Detection and Response) based endpoint security solution. EDR and XDR (Extended detection and response) play crucial roles in contemporary cybersecurity strategies; our approach is to choose an EDR solution and implement it as a foundational step for the XDR. The project priority is to protect all workstations (desktops, laptops), servers, and mobile devices from cyber threats, ensuring the highest level of security for the organization’s data and systems. It will be accomplished by leveraging the most advanced and latest technologies available, including Sophos, Microsoft, CrowdStrike, Trend Micro, Symantec, and McAfee solutions.

Goals: 

1. Enhance Cybersecurity: Protect all endpoints from malware, ransomware, phishing, and other cyber threats.
2. Improve Data Security: Safeguard sensitive company data from unauthorized access and potential breaches.
3. Ensure Compliance: Align endpoint protection measures with industry standards and regulatory requirements.
4. Increase Efficiency: Boost IT team efficiency with automated threat detection and response capabilities.

Endpoint protection project implementation approach 

Endpoint protection project implementation approach is to focus on implementing the chosen EDR solution that can provide immediate benefits in endpoint protection with the target strategy that the data and insights gained from EDR will enhance the effectiveness of a subsequent XDR implementation.

The project’s analysis phase (pre-contract) will select the option on which the project plan will be built, depending on whether the organization has a security plan and chosen solution or if the solution is to be selected during the discovery project.

Based on organization requirements, the project will proof of concept the settings and policies together with the organization’s IT and security department and roll them out in phases aligned with the end-user impact and communication. The project will define and provide a solution for back-end configuration and automatic software deployment to the end-user devices following the organization’s standards. 

Installation and configuration on the servers will be driven by the organization’s standard server policy, including handling exceptions (databases, hyper-v cluster files, etc.).

The software’s distribution to mobile devices will be aligned and planned according to the mobile device management policies, where the project might be dependent on the existing MDM Solution of a project implementing the MDM Solution for the organization.

Endpoint protection project in-scope activities

• Get requirements and create the design
• Develop and baseline project schedule
• Define policies and configurations for endpoint security.
• Determine deployment architecture and infrastructure requirements.
• Deploy the endpoint protection solution in DEV and QA environment.
• Test the functionality and performance of the solution.
• Identify roll-out tasks and dependencies.
• Implement the endpoint protection solution in the production environment.
• Install and configure endpoint protection agents on endpoints.
• Validate successful deployment and functionality.
• Enforce security policies and configurations on endpoints.
• Monitor compliance with security policies and remediate non-compliant devices.
• Implement monitoring tools to track endpoint security events and incidents.

Endpoint protection project required hardware and software

The analysis phase of the project will define the hardware or software needed.

If the organization creates the FRD with us or requests a discovery project, the plan and the requirements will be included in that scope.

Endpoint protection project required pre-requirements

• A list of endpoint categories that are in-scope of the project (workstations, laptops, mobile devices, servers) and locations (on-premises, remote, cloud)
• Current infrastructure details (architecture)
• Security requirements and compliance needs (data protection regulations, industry standards)
• Functional Requirements: necessary features and functionalities of the endpoint protection solution (antivirus, antimalware, firewall, EDR capabilities).
• Performance Requirements: (impact on system performance and network bandwidth)