i 1 2 3 4 5 Cracking the Code to Secure Productivity in Two Steps 9 Step two Streamline endpoint management After your organization has established a What can you achieve Zero Trust security foundation, you’ll be able with streamlined endpoint to adopt a simplified framework that allows IT management? admins to streamline endpoint management. Enhance employee experiences and Endpoints encompass a range of devices productivity. Provide support for a wide used in everyday work operations, including range of apps, peripherals, devices, and desktop computers, laptops, tablets, mobile phones, IoT devices, and cloud solutions. self-service options so employees can work efÏciently from anywhere. The number of endpoints has been increasing by the year, with the average enterprise now Improve control of endpoint performance, 12 having about 135,000 devices. Managing and health, and security. Keep devices updated securing all of those diverse endpoints is a with the latest operating system and large (and expensive) task, with about 30% of security policies based on identity, location, IT help desk costs devoted to solving endpoint compliance, and risk factors. issues. Using a cloud-based productivity suite like Microsoft 365 E3 helps simplify endpoint Reduce IT complexity. Drive IT efÏciency management and reduce IT costs, even as the by leveraging the cloud to simplify device number of endpoint devices keeps growing. and application deployment, configuration, and updates. The result is comprehensive Once you’ve completed the two management and security for endpoints steps of establishing a Zero Trust across various operating systems, device foundation and streamlining endpoint types, and ownership models. management, the next objective comes into focus—unobstructed productivity and collaboration.