Kolide – Six Colors

My thanks to Kolide for sponsoring Six Colors again this week.

Kolide wants your business to be secure. Think of it like airport security: there are two lines, one to verify your identity and another to scan your carry-ons. In enterprise security, the first line is user authentication. The second line is scanning the devices themselves.

That second line doesn’t get nearly the same level of attention. The average solution is like eyeing a bag and listening to hear if there’s a ticking sound. And that’s assuming there’s a second line at all. Kolide’s Shadow IT report found that 47% of companies let unmanaged devices access their resources, and authenticate via credentials alone.

Unmanaged devices can be infected with malware, full of personally identifiable information, or even belong to a bad actor using phished employee credentials. Companies need device trust solutions that block devices from authenticating if they don’t meet minimum security requirements. That’s what you get with Kolide’s device trust solution: a chance to verify that a device is both known and secure before it authenticates.

Without a device trust solution, all the security in the world is just security theater. Kolide can help close the gaps.