By 2030, experts predict that there will be over 40 million connected devices worldwide. These “devices” are a variety of endpoints, such as laptops, smartphones, computers, and more. Businesses and organizations around the world rely on these endpoints to complete tasks, communicate, and access information. In this overview, we’ll go over the different types of endpoint devices and how they affect an IT environment.

Endpoint (or device) hardening is the concept of reinforcing security at the device level. Because securing endpoints is fundamental to every other security action you take, it’s important to invest as much as you can into endpoint hardening. According to research conducted by Ponemon with Keeper Security, 81% of businesses experiencing an attack in 2020 were faced with some form of malware. Other forms of attack also included credential theft, compromised/stolen devices, and account takeover.

While the cost of data loss for businesses is currently increasing, Teramind’s data loss statistics show that automated data loss prevention measures help save 3.58 million per breach. Backup as a Service (BaaS) is a service that allows businesses to outsource their data backup to a third party, thus removing the need to backup data at a local workspace. This overview will provide a closer look into BaaS to help you decide if it’s the right choice for your organization.

In January of this year, NinjaOne sent a survey to all MSP customers worldwide asking them to quantify the amount of time they were saving using NinjaRMM versus their prior RMM solution. Normally we reserve our blogs for educational topics, but the results of the survey were so compelling, we had to share. We sent 11 questions ranging from how long it takes our MSP customers to implement NinjaRMM, to whether their mean time to resolution (MTTR) had been reduced.

Today, 93% of small business owners use at least one type of technology platform to help run their businesses. This is an extremely high percentage for small businesses, and the number only increases for large enterprises and corporations. Many organizations around the world are choosing to leave manual processes in the past and replace them with more efficient, technological solutions.

Not too long ago, devices used for work could only be accessed at the office, which meant that the end users of those devices had to travel to that location. Managing those end users was simpler because the devices were contained in a single area. These days, people own multiple devices and use many of them to get work done at home or on the go. In 2022, it was reported that about a quarter of U.S. employees work remotely.

There’s a reason why the network monitoring market reached about $2 billion in 2019 and is expected to reach $5 billion by 2026. In today’s tech-focused world, organizations require network monitoring to secure and manage their IT infrastructures. One of the crucial systems that every network monitoring and management operation needs to succeed is known as network discovery.

Figuring out which software solution will meet the needs of your organization’s IT environment can be a big challenge. There are many factors to consider before making a final decision, and one of those is to learn what software solutions are available. Intune and SCCM are two Microsoft solutions that help you manage the devices in your IT environment. Find out what each software solution does, how Intune vs SCCM compare to each other , and which one is right for you.