HS031 Kolide and Honest Security

In today’s sponsored podcast with Kolide we discuss how their tools engage the user to improve end-point security. Monitoring devices and then contacting the user to gather more information and provide contextual questions is a novel approach. There are often reasons to need short term privileges for day-to-day work and then to clean up afterwards. Consider this screenshot of a policy breach but asking the user if the data download is still required with suggested actions:

We don’t often see security tooling the engages the user and encourages them to participate in compliance. Its worth checking out Honest Security – https://honest.security/   which describes the philosophy behind their product.

If you want more information then use the code HEAVYSTRATEGY when visiting Kolide – Endpoint Security for Teams That Slack –  https://www.kolide.com/heavystrategy