The SMB’s Guide to Centralized Endpoint Management

Your team depends on a diverse mix of laptops, smartphones, tablets, desktops, Internet of Things devices, and even some Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) personal devices. While each of them brings productivity to the table, they also open your company’s doors to potential threats. This is why businesses are turning to centralized endpoint management solutions that manage the security and updates of every device on the network—all from one convenient location.

Today, we are examining the importance of a centralized endpoint management solution for your business—and the risks associated with not having one.

A Fragmented Network is an At-Risk Network

Perhaps the greatest risk of running without centralized endpoint management is the complete and utter lack of centralized security.

Unmanaged devices are the primary attack vectors, outside of phishing, that hackers will exploit to target your business. It’s easy to see how one simple virus on an employee’s personal device could infect your company’s entire network, particularly if no one is responsible for maintaining it. When you have security under control, you’ll also ensure that you meet the compliance requirements of regulatory bodies, which prevents your business from becoming subject to costly fines and audit failures.

Manual, device-by-device management is also an immense time sink, so you can avoid the downtime that such an approach causes (as well as the considerable labor expense) with centralized endpoint management.

Transforming Chaos Into Control

With centralized endpoint management, consistency is the name of the game; you can automatically deploy security policies (strong passwords, disk encryption, up-to-date firewalls, etc.) to all devices.

What’s better, these policies are immediately enforced on every device, meaning there’s no question of whether an employee has implemented them. This level of security automation is mandatory when patching and updates are involved, meaning that crucial software and OS updates are deployed overnight after hours without interrupting your team during their work. Since new devices will already be configured in a way that sets them up for success, new employees can jump in with confidence, while departing employees can have access revoked and their company data wiped in a moment’s notice.

What’s more, centralized endpoint management can offer a comprehensive view of your entire device infrastructure’s security health, helping you rest assured knowing that you have all your bases covered.

Worry About Your Business, Not Managing Security

It might seem impossible for your business to implement such a powerful solution, especially if you don’t have the in-house IT resources to deploy and manage it.

That’s why working with a managed service provider is often the best way to leverage enterprise-level tools, such as centralized endpoint management. You can get access to a knowledgeable IT partner that can help you standardize, automate, and monitor all software installed on your infrastructure. What this unlocks for you, as a business owner, is stability, predictability, and the freedom to continue your own work, managing your business unimpeded by the struggles and frustrations that come from managing business technology.

Centralized endpoint management might seem out of reach, but it’s no longer a luxury that only large companies can afford. You can, too, and it all starts with a phone call to BSGtech.

If you’re ready to take the complexity out of managing your device fleet, call us today at (866) 546-1004.