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current; and conduct daily scans and real-
time scans of memory, emails, etc.
All of this takes up a lot of CPU cycles and
degrades client device usage. On average,
traditional endpoint security products use
50% to over 70% of CPU cycles during
intensive scans.
This leads to constant complaints among
end-users at many organisations, who want
to know why their systems are so slow or why
it takes 15 minutes to boot up every workday
morning. Furthermore, this also increases
costs and reduces productivity, because
users are making more calls to the helpdesk
when problems arise.
The negative impact on performance goes
directly against what so many enterprises
strive to achieve today: enhanced systems
and application performance that enables
workers to complete tasks more quickly
and efficiently.
If systems are slow, so is the response to
customer needs, or the development of a
new product or service, or the launch of a
marketing campaign.
The impact on the bottom line and on
business operations can be dramatic.
Clearly, security solutions need to be
effective at stopping attacks, but not at
the cost of diminishing performance to
the point where employees and customers
become disenchanted. n
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