What is the focus of endpoint security?

Endpoint security primarily focuses on protecting endpoint devices such as laptops, desktops, mobile devices, and servers from various cyber threats. These endpoints are often the points of access to sensitive data and systems, making them attractive targets for malicious actors. Effective endpoint security solutions involve the implementation of advanced threat detection and response capabilities, antivirus software, application control, and traffic filtering specifically designed to secure these devices against malware, ransomware, data breaches, and other security risks.

By concentrating on endpoint devices, organizations can create a security perimeter that is more effective in combating the evolving threat landscape. This approach is essential to ensure that vulnerabilities present at the endpoint level do not compromise the broader network and sensitive information. Other choices such as protecting only server infrastructure, which does not encompass all endpoint devices, monitoring network traffic exclusively, which fails to address device-level threats, and enforcing password policies, which is merely one aspect of security and doesn't address endpoint-level threats as a whole, do not align with the comprehensive focus of endpoint security.