Call for Collective Endpoint Takeover Resilience

Endpoint management platforms have extraordinary power over customer environments. They can deploy software, execute scripts, change configurations, and remotely control thousands of endpoints. If attackers compromise one of these platforms, they could potentially take over every endpoint it manages.

As AI accelerates vulnerability discovery and exploitation, no software vendor can guarantee its platform will never be compromised. The industry must move beyond preventing breaches alone and build architectures that protect customer endpoints even when a management platform is compromised.

in making endpoint takeover resilience an industry standard.

At Action1, we pioneered Endpoint Takeover Prevention (ETP), an industry-first security architecture developed over years of research and engineering. ETP prevents attackers from executing protected actions on customer endpoints even if the Action1 platform itself is compromised.

We believe this level of protection should not be unique to Action1. Every endpoint management vendor should have the opportunity to build similar protections into its products.

We're inviting fellow endpoint management vendors and their product teams to learn our ETP architecture, exchange insights, and explore how these principles can help make their own platforms takeover-resilient.

What we're calling on the industry to do

Rethink platform trust. Assume that even well-protected management platforms can be compromised, and design systems that limit the consequences.

Rethink platform trust.

Assume that even well-protected management platforms can be compromised, and design systems that limit the consequences.

Make endpoints the last line of defense. Ensure that high-impact actions cannot be authorized by a compromised management platform alone.

Make endpoints the last line of defense.

Ensure that high-impact actions cannot be authorized by a compromised management platform alone.

Collaborate to raise the security standard. architectural insights, research, and practical experience to accelerate adoption of endpoint takeover resilience across the industry.

Collaborate to raise the security standard.

architectural insights, research, and practical experience to accelerate adoption of endpoint takeover resilience across the industry.

No vendor should be a single point of failure

The security of millions of endpoints should not depend on any single management platform being impossible to compromise.

Action1 is committed to working with fellow vendors, researchers, and industry leaders to make endpoint takeover resilience a fundamental expectation of endpoint management software.

Together, we can make endpoint takeover resilience the new industry standard.