Symantec™ Protection Suite Enterprise Edition
Comprehensive, powerful endpoint, messaging, and Web protection, for less
money
Data Sheet: Endpoint Security
Overview
Securing your business is challenging, but made easier with Symantec™ Protection Suite Enterprise Edition. Powered by
Symantec Insight™, Protection Suite protects with the industry’s fastest1 , most-effective2 endpoint security, combined with
industry-leading messaging protection and Web security. Powerful, centralized visibility and control from Symantec™ Protection
Center enables policy enforcement, consolidated reporting, and real-time intelligence while reducing upfront and on-going costs.
Fas
astes
testt, mo
mosst eff
effective
ective securit
securityy—Powered by Insight, you can confidently protect your infrastructure with industry-leading
endpoint security, messaging and Web security, and data protection solutions built to secure your physical and virtual
environments.
Central intelligence and management—
management—Efficiently manage your security with Symantec™ Protection Center, the unifying
foundation for consolidated visibility, cross-product reporting, and real-time actionable intelligence across protection
technologies.
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protection,
tection, ffor
or less
less—Increase the security posture across your IT infrastructure, while reducing upfront and on-going IT
costs and force out unnecessary complexity.
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2.
PassMark Software, “Enterprise Endpoint Protection Performance Benchmarks,” February 2011.
AV-Test GmbH, “Remediation Testing Report” and “Real World Testing Report,” February 2011.
Data Sheet: Endpoint Security
Symantec™ Protection Suite Enterprise Edition
Multi-layer protection from endpoint to gateway
Protect against more threats and secure your environment against data loss, malware, and spam by accurately identifying and
addressing risks consistently across different platforms. Only Symantec provides the broad spectrum of core security protections
across your endpoint, messaging, and Web infrastructure, while also ensuring endpoints are rapidly recoverable in the event of
failure. Multiple layers of protection help ensure you are accurately identifying and addressing risks while delivering consistent
protection in both physical and virtual environments.
Fastest, Most Effective Security
Central Intelligence and Management
Endpoint security and recovery
Centralized management, messaging and antispam
Protection Suite delivers more than industry-leading
antivirus with advanced threat prevention that protects your
endpoints—laptops, desktops, and servers— from targeted
attacks and attacks not seen before. Proactive technologies
automatically analyze application behaviors and network
communications to detect and block suspicious activities,
including administrative control features that allow you to
deny specific devices and applications. Protection Suite
extends its system protection to include disk-based system
recovery for Microsoft® Windows-based desktops and
laptops enabling businesses to recover from system loss or
disasters in minutes, not hours or days.
protection
• Multi-la
Multi-layer
yer pro
protection
tection from endpoint to
gatewa
gatewayy—Protect against more threats and secure your
environment against data loss, malware, and spam by
accurately identifying and addressing risks consistently
across different platforms.
• Context-aware securit
securityy management
management—Correlate data
from endpoint, messaging and third-party security products
with early warning alerts from the Symantec™ Global
Intelligence Network.
• Unriv
Unrivaled
aled securit
securityy—Powered by Insight, Protection Suite
detects new threats on endpoints and at the perimeter,
earlier and more accurately than signature or behavioralbased solutions alone.
• Rapid sys
system
tem recover
recoveryy—Quickly and easily restore
physical and virtual systems in minutes3 , even to bare
metal, dissimilar hardware, remote locations, or virtual
environments.
3.
4.
Protection Center is a centralized security management
console that allows organizations to identify emerging
threats, prioritize tasks and accelerate time to protection
based on relevant, actionable intelligence. Protection Suite
delivers inbound and outbound messaging security, with
accurate real-time antispam and antivirus protection,
advanced content filtering, and data loss prevention.
Protection Suite messaging security components can be
deployed on your messaging server (Microsoft® Exchange
and Lotus Domino®) and at the gateway (physical or virtual
appliance-based).
• Visibilit
Visibilityy acro
across
ss securit
securityy solutions
solutions—The console of
Symantec Protection Center allows organizations to centrally
identify threats, prioritize tasks, and accelerate time to
protection based on relevant, actionable intelligence.
• Virtually eliminate spam4 —Block more than 99 percent
of spam with less than 1 in a million false positives.
Gartner Magic Quadrants - Magic Quadrant for Secure E-Mail Gateways, Gartner 2010 and Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms, Gartner, 2010
May 2011, VBSpam Report http://www.virusbtn.com/vbspam/index
Data Sheet: Endpoint Security
Symantec™ Protection Suite Enterprise Edition
More Pro
Protection
tection ffor
or less
• Co
Cosst efficient—
efficient—Solve crucial security challenges
Maximize protection, minimize complexity, and stay under
across multiple threat vectors, while saving up to 72
budget
percent5 over the purchase of individual point
Protection suite is a cost efficient way to deploy security and
recovery technologies across your IT infrastructure. Reduce
upfront and on-going IT costs by forcing out
complexity—Symantec technologies are centrally managed
and work seamlessly together. Protection Suite also offers
unparalleled Web security to fend off today’s complex Webborne malware threats. Web Gateway detects infected
endpoints, monitors inbound and outbound Web traffic for
threats, and enables you to safely use today’s Web 2.0
applications.
products.
• Eliminate en
environment
vironment complexit
complexityy—Deploy essential
endpoint, messaging, and Web security technologies
as unified solutions with coordinated and integrated
management.
• Streamline processes—
processes—Eliminate additional steps
and costs with one decision, one purchase, and one
vendor for comprehensive protection.
Key features and benefits
Only Protection Suite:
• Meets the broad spectrum of core security needs across your endpoint, messaging, and Web infrastructure, while also
ensuring endpoints are rapidly recoverable in the event of failure.
• Delivers visibility across Symantec and third-party security solutions, and connects you with the world’s largest
commercial cyber-intelligence community.
• Enables organizations to automate common security processes, and customize responses, based on the unique needs
of their enterprise environments.
Fas
astes
testt Endpoint Securit
Securityy
Powered by Insight, confidently protects physical and virtual environments
• Patented technolog
technologyy—Insight separates files at risk from those that are safe, for faster and more accurate malware
detection, blocking more threats including mutating and zero-day.
• Proactive threat pro
protection
tection—SONAR 3 examines programs as they run, identifying and stopping malicious behavior
even for new and previously unknown threats.
• Antivirus and antispy
antispyware
ware ffor
or Windows
Windows®,
®, Linux®, and Macinto
Macintosh
sh®®— Provides unmatched, malware protection,
market-leading antivirus and spyware protection, new rootkit protection, reduced memory footprint, and blazing
performance.
• Net
Network
work threat pro
protection
tection—A rules-based firewall engine and Generic Exploit Blocking (GEB) block malware before it
can enter a system.
5.
Cost calculations based upon MSRP (Express Band A Essential Support) of contributing Symantec solutions (SEP, SMG, SWG, SNAC, SSR, SPC, ITA for SEP, and
Workflow)
Data Sheet: Endpoint Security
Symantec™ Protection Suite Enterprise Edition
• Pro
Protection
tection ffor
or virtual en
environments
vironments—Protects your virtual infrastructure with virtual image exception, resource
leveling, shared Insight cache, virtual client tagging to optimize your virtual environment’s security posture.
Eff
ffective
ective Email and W
Web
eb Securit
Securityy
Reduce upfront and on-going IT costs and forcing out unnecessary complexity
• Antispam and messaging securit
securityy pro
protection
tection from Symantec™ Messaging Gateway and Symantec™ Mail Security
Enterprise Edition blocks more than 99 percent of unwanted spam.6
• Content filtering of inbound and outbound traffic for compliance with industry and government regulations.
• Saf
Safe
eguard sensitive inf
information
ormation by identifying and controlling the flow of sensitive information via email and IM with
advanced content filtering and data loss prevention.
• Pro
Protect
tect agains
againstt more threats and secure your environment against data loss, malware, spam, botnets, and other Web
2.0 threats by accurately identifying and addressing risks consistently across different platforms.
Central Management and S
Sys
ystem
tem Recover
Recoveryy
Efficiently manage, monitor, update, and enforce security and recovery
• Single endpoint agent and single management console—
console—Antivirus, antispyware, desktop firewall, intrusion
prevention, device and application control, and network access control are all in a single agent—managed by a single
management console.
• Single sign-on, central web console provides full configuration management, report generation, and consolidated
dashboard views across multiple Symantec protection technologies.
• Rapid, reliable sys
system
tem recover
recoveryy enables organizations to run backups automatically when the Symantec ThreatCon
level changes. You can recover complete Windows systems in minutes to dissimilar hardware or virtual environments.
• Minimiz
Minimize
e downtime—
downtime—Get your business systems back up and running quickly by restoring from both event driven and
scheduled recovery points.
• Securit
Security-centric
y-centric process automation and workflows are pre-built, fully customizable, and streamline new and
existing IT processes across Symantec and third-party technologies.
What'
What'ss new?
Insight
Insight—Separates files at risk from those that are safe, for faster and more accurate malware detection.
Real T
Time
ime SONAR 3—
3—Examines programs as they run, identifying and stopping malicious behavior even for new and previously
unknown threats.
Browser intrusion prevention—
prevention—Scans for attacks directed at browser vulnerabilities.
Endpoint Pro
Protection
tection ffor
or Mac® and Linux®—
Linux®—Managed through the Symantec Endpoint Protection management console.
Pro
Protection
tection ffor
or virtual en
environments
vironments—Protects your virtual infrastructure with virtual image exception, resource leveling,
shared Insight cache, and virtual client tagging to optimize your virtual environment's security posture.
6.
Symantec System Recovery 2011 Customer interview results
Data Sheet: Endpoint Security
Symantec™ Protection Suite Enterprise Edition
Minimum System Requirements
Get up-to-date System Requirements for Protection Suite Enterprise Edition or from www.symantec.com.
• Symantec Endpoint Protection (Windows, Linux, and Macintosh)
• Symantec System Recovery Desktop Edition
• Symantec Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange
• Symantec Mail Security for Domino
• Symantec Messaging Gateway
• Symantec Web Gateway
• Symantec Protection Center
Services
Symantec offers a range of consulting, technical education, and support services to guide organizations through the migration,
deployment, and management of Protection Suite and help realize the full value of your investment. Essential Support Services
provide confidence that critical assets are protected around the clock. For organizations that want to outsource security
monitoring and management, Symantec also offers Symantec™ Managed Security Services to deliver real-time security
protection.
More Information
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http://enterprise.symantec.com
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About Symantec
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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.
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