
An increasing number of costly attacks and breaches and the potential for centrally managed protection and administration have driven expansion of the endpoint security market. These endpoint protection, detection and response vendors prevent file-less attacks, reduce the attack surface, safeguard mobile devices and automate alert response.
Four endpoint security companies on CRN's annual Security 100 list tapped someone new to lead them, with top Avast lieutenant Ondrej Vlcek being promoted to CEO, BlackBerry Cylance promoting Daniel Doimo to president, Art Gilliland taking control over Symantec Enterprise Security when it was sold to Broadcom, and McAfee tapping ex-BMC and Polycom executive Peter Leav as its new CEO.
Here's a look at 20 companies making their mark in the endpoint security space.