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Symantec Positioned as a Leader in the Endpoint Protection Platforms Magic Quadrant

March 13th, 2011 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Data Protection, Security Solutions, Symantec

Symantec Corp.  announced that it has been positioned by Gartner Inc. in the Leaders Quadrant of the 2010 Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms (EPP).

“Attention to better software management and maintenance is the key to reducing the attack surface and protecting users from social engineering attacks,” notes the Magic Quadrant report, which positions vendors based on their ability to execute and completeness of vision. “Application control, configuration management, and vulnerability detection and remediation are the most effective proactive forms of malware defense. These methods reduce the overall attack surface and neuter the vast majority of threats.”

“As the security landscape rapidly changes, the traditional approaches to security fail to protect against the new sophisticated attacks,” said Art Gilliland, vice president for Symantec Enterprise Security Group. “We believe our position in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection confirms Symantec’s leadership in the execution and vision for our comprehensive and integrated security solution which delivers the protection and tools required to effectively stop the latest malware attacks.”

Symantec Endpoint Protection integrates antivirus, antispyware, desktop firewall, intrusion prevention, device and application control and optional network access control to deliver unmatched defense against malware for laptops, desktops and servers. It seamlessly integrates essential security technologies in a single agent and management console, increasing protection and helping lower total cost of ownership.

To address the challenges of endpoint security as a result of complex IT infrastructures, virtualized environments and consumerization of IT, Symantec has consistently augmented its endpoint security offering from a technology, efficacy and performance perspective. In a recent series of tests measuring the performance of enterprise and small business endpoint security solutions conducted by PassMark Software, Symantec Endpoint Protection outperformed all competitive products.

About Business Solutions from Symantec
Symantec helps organizations secure and manage their information-driven world with endpoint security, messaging security, web security, data protection and security management solutions.

About the Magic Quadrant
The Magic Quadrants are copyrighted 2010 by Gartner, Inc. and are reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner’s analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the “Leaders” quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

About Symantec
Symantec is a global leader in providing security, storage and systems management solutions to help consumers and organizations secure and manage their information-driven world. Our software and services protect against more risks at more points, more completely and efficiently, enabling confidence wherever information is used or stored. More information is available at www.symantec.com.

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Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 Delivers Unrivaled Security with Fastest Performance

March 2nd, 2011 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Security Solutions, Server Virtualization, Small Business Virtualization, Virtual Infrastructure

Symantec announces new versions of Symantec Endpoint Protection and Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition (currently in beta), providing businesses of all sizes with advanced protection while improving system performance. Complete with advanced features to secure virtual infrastructures and powered by Insight, Symantec’s award-winning community and cloud-based reputation technology, Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 is designed to detect and block sophisticated new threats earlier and more accurately than any other security product.

Security threats have become more sophisticated and more widespread, creating a challenge for traditional signature-based security solutions. Last year, attackers unleashed more than 286 million distinct malicious programs, an average of more than nine new threats every second of every day. This explosion in malware scope and complexity is due in large part to the proliferation of easy-to-use attack toolkits—such as Zeus—which lower the barrier of entry in cybercrime. These toolkits enable hackers to continuously generate new mutated malware variants, each targeting a different victim, making traditional discovery and fingerprinting of these threats nearly impossible. According to Symantec’s Attack Toolkits and Malicious Websites Report, at least 61 percent of threat activity can be attributed to attack toolkits. As these toolkits grow in popularity, the trend towards millions of narrowly distributed, high impact threats will continue. Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 leverages Insight to provide unmatched protection against this new threat landscape.

Key Benefits

  • Unrivaled Security: Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 blocks new and unknown threats missed by traditional signature, heuristic, behavioral and HIPS-based security solutions. All of the product’s security engines are now reputation-enabled, leveraging Insight’s online reputation database to identify and block malware attacks. Symantec’s Insight has analyzed the anonymous software adoption patterns from more than 175 million customer computers to automatically derive highly accurate security ratings for more than 2.5 billion unique software files—Insight has ratings for virtually every software file, good or bad in existence. In addition, SONAR 3, the world’s first hybrid behavioral-reputation engine, blocks zero-day and highly targeted threats based on their joint behavior-reputation profile. As part of a commissioned test, the leading security testing organization, AV-Test.org, recently compared a number of major endpoint security products on their effectiveness in blocking new threats as well as cleaning up pre-existing infections. Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 (beta) received the top score against all tested competitors in both categories.
  • Fastest Performance: Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 leverages cloud-based community intelligence to reduce the overhead of virus scanning by as much as 70 percent by using Symantec Insight to automatically identify and whitelist trusted high-reputation files, resulting in fewer, faster and smarter scans. The new, Insight-driven compatible scan engine is also designed to do most of its work while computers are idle. In the latest roundup of PassMark Software’s performance test of enterprise and small business security solutions, Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 reported the fastest scan speed and was found to be twice as fast as the average security solution. Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 also used the least memory,57 percent less memory usage than the average security solution.
  • Built for Virtual Environments: Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 offers comprehensive defense against all types of attacks and is optimized for performance on virtual systems. Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 can whitelist baseline images, maintain a local Insight cache, randomize scans and updates, and automatically identify and manage virtual clients. This is above and beyond the performance improvements gained with Insight. Together these innovations dramatically reduce the load on virtual hosts, alleviating ‘AV Storms’/concurrent scans from bogging down system resources and allowing for faster, more responsive systems, which can in turn support greater density of virtual instances. Symantec is working closely with VMware to take full advantage of virtualization awareness and introspection capabilities based on VMware vShield™ technology and Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 is the first step along the optimization path for virtual environments.
  • Small Business Edition: Leveraging Insight and Sonar 3, Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition offers enterprise-class threat detection technologies and performance improvements with simple to use features such as an installation wizard, pre-configured policy settings and automated notifications and reports for small business customers. Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition meets small business needs with the fastest, most effective anti-malware capabilities in the industry. Small businesses will have peace of mind that their data is safe from cybercriminals, so that they can stay focused on growing their businesses.

Beta Registration and Availability

Presently, Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 is in an invitation-only beta and is expected to be available for public beta in April 2011. The new versions of Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 are scheduled to be generally available later this year and can be purchased through Symantec’s worldwide network of value-added authorized resellers, distributors and systems integrators or directly. For more information on Symantec Endpoint Protection and to register for the public beta, please click here.

 Quotes:

“Cyber attacks are increasing in size, scope and sophistication and companies of all sizes are at risk. Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 leverages our award winning Insight technology to give our customers —from small businesses to large enterprises—the strongest protection and fastest performance available.”
– Francis deSouza, senior vice president, Enterprise Security Group, Symantec

“As virtualization plays an increasingly critical role in the enterprise, we see a growing need for security solutions designed to secure the virtual infrastructure. We are collaborating closely with Symantec so that VMware vShield™ Endpoint technology and Symantec Endpoint Protection will work together seamlessly, further ensuring that our customers have the security solutions they need for running business-critical applications on the VMware vSphere® platform.”
– Parag Patel, vice president, Global Strategic Alliances, VMware

“The reporting capabilities are much improved, and that means a lot less time we have to spend monitoring and addressing threats to our network and systems. Symantec has developed endpoint security software that is effective against the more insidious, targeted attacks without negatively impacting system performance.”
– Christian Sosa, network security engineer, 20th Century Fox

“We’re a growing small business and our security needs become more complex each day. Since participating in the new Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition Beta program, we are seeing improved performance on our machines and more importantly, we feel relieved to know we don’t have worry about the threats out there.”
– Robert Lantrip, Owner, Ourco Welding and Industrial Supplies

“Symantec is delivering a product that will help us identify and block the new threats that are created every day. I’ve also seen dramatically improved scan times because the reputation-based security technology does not waste time scanning files with good reputations. That means our users are able to work without being slowed down or interrupted by our security software.”
– Seth Shestack, associate director of information security, Temple University

“I was particularly impressed with the Intrusion Prevention Scanning. It improves the speed of scans, significantly reducing the impact on the performance of users’ computers. Additionally, the installation time for Symantec Endpoint Protection is really fast, and with the amazing new features, I am anxious for it to be released to install for our clients as soon as possible.”
– Alex Solovyev, Network Support Technician, Networking Solutions

About Business Solutions from Symantec

Symantec helps organizations secure and manage their information-driven world with endpoint security, messaging security, web security, data protection, identity authentication and security management solutions.

About Security Technology and Response

The Security Technology and Response (STAR) organization, which includes Security Response, is a worldwide team of security engineers, threat analysts, and researchers that provides the underlying functionality, content, and support for all Symantec corporate and consumer security products, including the new Insight and SONAR 3 technologies. With Response centers located throughout the world, STAR monitors malicious code reports from more than 130 million systems across the Internet, receives data from 40,000 network sensors in more than 200 countries, and tracks more than 25,000 vulnerabilities affecting more than 55,000 technologies from more than 8,000 vendors. The team uses this vast intelligence to develop and deliver the world’s most comprehensive security protection.

About Symantec

Symantec is a global leader in providing security, storage and systems management solutions to help consumers and organizations secure and manage their information-driven world. Our software and services protect against more risks at more points, more completely and efficiently, enabling confidence wherever information is used or stored. More information is available at www.symantec.com.

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Forward-looking Statements:Any forward-looking indication of plans for products is preliminary and all future release dates are tentative and are subject to change. Any future release of the product or planned modifications to product capability, functionality, or feature are subject to ongoing evaluation by Symantec, and may or may not be implemented and should not be considered firm commitments by Symantec and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions.

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Symantec Endpoint Protection: The next generation of antivirus technology from Symantec

August 24th, 2010 by admin | No Comments | Filed in Symantec

Overview

Advanced threat protection

Symantec™ Endpoint Protection combines Symantec AntiVirus™ with advanced threat prevention to deliver an unmatched defense against malware for laptops, desktops, and servers. It provides protection against even the most sophisticated attacks that evade traditional security measures, such as rootkits, zero-day attacks, and mutating spyware. Symantec Endpoint Protection delivers more than world-class, industry-leading antivirus and antispyware signature-based protection. It also provides advanced threat

prevention that protects endpoints from targeted attacks and attacks not seen before. It includes turnkey, proactive technologies that automatically analyze application behaviors and network communications to detect and block suspicious activities, as well as administrative control features that allow you to deny specific device and application activities deemed as high risk for your organization. You can even block specific actions based on the location of the user.

 This multilayered approach significantly lowers risks and gives you the confidence that your business assets are protected. It is a comprehensive product that gives you the capabilities you need now, along with the ability to enable the pieces you need, as you need them. Whether the attack is coming from a malicious insider or is externally motivated, endpoints will be protected. Symantec Endpoint Protection increases protection and helps lower your total cost of ownership by reducing administrative overhead as well as the costs associated with managing multiple endpoint security products. It provides a single agent that is administered by a single management console. This simplifies endpoint security administration and provides operational efficiencies such as single software updates and policy updates, unified and central reporting, and a single licensing and maintenance program. Symantec Endpoint Protection is easy to implement and deploy. Symantec provides a range of consulting, technical education, and support services that guide organizations through the migration, deployment, and management of the solution and help them realize the full value of their investment. For organizations that want to outsource security monitoring and management, Symantec also offers Managed Security Services to deliver real-time security protection.

 

Key benefits

Secure

Comprehensive protection—Symantec Endpoint Protection integrates best-of-breed technologies to stop security threats—even from the most devious new and unknown attackers—before they penetrate the network. It detects and blocks malicious software in real time, including viruses, worms, Trojan horses, spyware, adware, and rootkits.

Proactive protection—TruScan™ Proactive Threat Scan is a unique Symantec technology used to score both good and bad behaviors of unknown applications, enhancing detection and reducing false positives without the need to create rule based configurations.

Industry-best threat landscape intelligence—Symantec protection mechanisms leverage the industry-leading Global Intelligence Network to deliver an unparalleled view of the entire Internet threat landscape. This intelligence results in actionable protection and peace of mind against evolving attacks.

Simple

Single agent, single console—A full range of security technologies are integrated into a single agent and a centralized management console, with an intuitive user interface and Web-based graphical reporting. You are able to set and enforce security policies across the enterprise to protect your critical assets. Symantec Endpoint Protection simplifies management, reduces system resource usage, and requires no additional agents when adding Symantec Network Access Control support. Symantec Network Access Control features are automatically enabled on the agent and management console with the purchase of a license.

Easy to deploy—Because it requires only a single agent and management console and it operates with an organization’s existing security and IT investments, Symantec Endpoint Protection is easy to implement and deploy. For organizations that want to outsource security monitoring and management, Symantec offers Managed Security Services to deliver real-time security protection.

Lower cost of ownership—Symantec Endpoint Protection delivers a lower total cost of ownership by reducing administrative overhead as well as the costs associated with managing multiple endpoint security products. This unified approach to endpoint security simplifies administration and

provides operational efficiencies such as single software updates and policy updates, unified and central reporting, and a single licensing and maintenance program.

Seamless

Easy to install, configure, and manage—Symantec Endpoint Protection makes it easy to enable/disable and configure desired technologies to fit into your environment.

Symantec Network Access Control ready—Each endpoint becomes “Symantec Network Access Control ready,” eliminating the need to deploy additional network access control endpoint agent software.

Leverages existing security technologies and IT

investments—Symantec Endpoint Protection works with other leading antivirus products, firewalls, IPS technologies, and network access control infrastructures. It also works with leading software deployment tools, patch management tools, and security information management tools.

Integration with Altiris endpoint management

solutions—Distributing software packages, migrating older Symantec AntiVirus™ or other antivirus deployments, and viewing new agent rollout status and activity is easier.

Key features

 

More than antivirus

Antivirus and antispyware—Provides unmatched, best of- breed malware protection, including market-leading antivirus protection, enhanced spyware protection, new rootkit protection, reduced memory footprint, and new dynamic performance adjustments to keep users productive.

Network threat protection—A rules-based firewall engine and Generic Exploit Blocking (GEB) block malware before it can enter a system.

Proactive threat protection—Providing protection against unseen threats (i.e., zero-day threats), it includes TruScan Proactive Threat Scan, which does not rely on a signature.

Single agent and single management console—Antivirus, antispyware, desktop firewall, IPS, device and application control, and network access control (with the purchase of a Symantec Network Access Control license) are provided on a single agent—all managed by a single console.

Coretek Services is a Michigan based Systems Integration and IT consulting company that works with virtualization infrastructure, and is also a Symantec Gold Partner specializing in Symantec Enterprise Vault (SEV), Symantec Backup Exec (SBE), and Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP).  Please contact us today for any virtualization requirements, or Symantec Product requirements.

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