The war cry of IT managers today is, “I want my team to provide services, not be mechanics.”

IT professionals are working their way out of the trenches as companies focus on leveraging technology to save money and deliver more solutions faster. But do company owners understand the soft costs of mis-managing the talent pool?

Using intelligent and expensive resources to perform rudimentary tasks seems counterproductive in most organizations. And, as the role of IT becomes critical path to the business mission, IT professionals are expected to continuously evolve and manage more with less.

Automation promises a way for the IT department to scale manpower and simplify laborious tasks that take away from design and implementation responsibilities. Endpoint security management is a good example of a task best left to an automated system.

It is impractical for most companies to assign a full-time resource to manually monitor every endpoint to ensure security compliance. By using an automated endpoint security management tool like Clear Blue Security, endpoints are monitored real-time even when outside the network.

In a recent survey conducted by Clear Blue Security on 125 small and medium sized businesses, 100% of the businesses exhibited critical security vulnerabilities on the network. A majority of the threats were “elementary” and could have been easily avoided if an effective monitoring and detection system were in place.

“Most small and medium sized companies have basic security measures in place. A firewall and antivirus are par for the course.” comments John Sirvydas, CTO of Clear Blue Security. “We find most problems in the configuration of endpoint security tools. An endpoint security management system is required in resource constrained and complex networks to ensure the tools are updated and running properly.”

Protect your endpoints today.  Download Clear Blue Security’s Endpoint Security management software for free.