Overview
Endpoint sprawl is not, by itself, a reason to buy unified endpoint management. The executive issue is whether fragmented controls are creating measurable gaps in inventory, policy, patching, access, or support. Consolidate only where those gaps are material, then introduce Artificial Intelligence (AI) as bounded assistance before allowing it to make changes at scale.
What Is Happening
Hybrid work, Bring Your Own Device (BYOD), multiple operating systems, contractor access, and decentralized IT have pushed more control toward endpoints. A USENIX Security study based on more than 1,000 hours of Security Operations Center (SOC) field observation, plus interviews across seven additional SOCs, documented a shift toward endpoint-centric management in the SOC environments studied and also identified privacy and analyst-burnout costs.1
The old progression of Mobile Device Management (MDM) to Mobile Application Management (MAM) to Unified Endpoint Management (UEM) is too simplistic. Current UK National Cyber Security …