PRESS RELEASES: Symantec announces its security and information management solutions at Vision 2011

 

Symantec Introduces New Security Solutions to Counter Advanced Persistent Threats  

 

Today, Symantec announced that Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 is now available for public beta and optimized for virtual environments. This will offer organizations the vital protection needed to effectively block both known and new cyber threats. Symantec Protection Center 2.0 will draw upon correlated visibility from multiple security products combined with Symantec’s Global Intelligence Network to provide relevant actionable intelligence that reduces risks to enterprise businesses.

Symantec’s Endpoint Protection 12 will:

 

·         Protect against a new threat landscape by detecting and blocking sophisticated new threats earlier, more accurately, and with greater performance than any other security product

·         Block new and unknown threats missed by other security solutions by leveraging Insight, Symantec’s award-winning community and cloud-based reputation technology

·         Work effectively in virtual environments with optimal speed

 

Symantec Protection Center 2.0 will:

 

·         Allow organizations to identify emerging threats, prioritize tasks and accelerate time to protection based on relevant, actionable intelligence.

·         Identify emerging threats across local and global environments

·         Provide context-aware security management by correlating data from enterprise security products along with early warning alerts from the Symantec’s Global Intelligence Network


Symantec to Combine eDiscovery, Data Loss Prevention, and Encryption to Define Information Governance

 

Symantec also announced Symantec Enterprise Vault 10, Enterprise Vault.cloud, and Cloud Storage for Enterprise Vault to enable organizations to manage and discover their information with unprecedented speed, efficiency and scale, on-premise and in the cloud. 

 

Symantec Enterprise Vault 10 will:

 

·         Add new integration with Symantec's data loss prevention and encryption technologies to archive and discover organizations’ information without compromising confidential information, and allow organizations to discover data stored in the cloud and from social networks

·         Leverage Symantec's data loss prevention technology to analyze email content and metadata to automatically classify the email and assign the appropriate archiving and retention policy for that message

 

Enterprise Vault.cloud will:

·         Offer unlimited cloud storage for e-mail, with rapid search and access, for a flat fee per mailbox per month

·         Enable organizations of all sizes to address the challenges of email storage management, legal discovery, and regulatory compliance, with the ease and efficiency of a purely hosted archiving service

·         Does not require hardware, software, or plug-ins to install and maintain


Symantec Introduces New Security Solutions to Counter Advanced Persistent Threats 

Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 and Symantec Protection Center 2.0 to combat the volume and complexity of cyber attacks in traditional and virtual environments

 

TORONTO, ON – May 4, 2011 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) continues its mission to protect the world’s information and allow organizations to confidently conduct business in today’s connected world. Threats to information continually evolve, and new security solutions from Symantec help organizations of all sizes identify and combat coordinated, multi-pronged attacks on information which are striking businesses with increasing frequency. Symantec Endpoint Protection 12, now available for public beta and optimized for virtual environments, will offer organizations the vital protection needed to effectively block both known and new cyber threats. Symantec Protection Center 2.0 will draw upon correlated visibility from multiple security products combined with Symantec’s Global Intelligence Network to provide relevant actionable intelligence that reduces risks to enterprise businesses.

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Threat Landscape:  The sheer volume of sophisticated attacks targeting organizations of all sizes poses a daunting challenge for traditional signature-based security solutions that can’t keep up.  According to Symantec’s Internet Security Threat Report, in 2010, attackers unleashed more than 286 million distinct malicious programs, an average of more than nine new threats every second of every day. These threats impact multiple areas of the IT infrastructure with a 93 percent increase in Web-based attacks, 42 percent more mobile vulnerabilities, and  6,253 new vulnerabilities including 14 zero-day vulnerabilities which played a key role in targeted attacks like Hydraq and Stuxnet. Security solutions that provide central management and security intelligence are required to combat persistent, coordinated assaults on organizations today.

Symantec Endpoint Protection 12:  To provide unmatched protection against this new threat landscape, Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 is designed to detect and block sophisticated new threats earlier, more accurately, and with greater performance than any other security product. Symantec Endpoint Protection leverages Insight, Symantec’s award-winning community and cloud-based reputation technology, to block new and unknown threats missed by other security solutions.  By blocking risky files with a poor reputation from entering an organization, Symantec Endpoint Protection provides a vital first line of defense in the battle against advanced persistent threats. Built for speed and effectiveness in virtual environments, internally-conducted testing of the software in heavily consolidated virtual environments shows a 90 percent reduction in disk usage, thus delivering up to a tenfold increase in consolidation density. Symantec continues to work 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 and cloud environments.

Symantec now opens its previously invitation-only beta program to the public, and interested parties may sign up here. Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition 12, also now available for public beta, will offer small organizations with limited IT staff and resources a solution they can easily deploy to start protecting their businesses in less than 20 minutes (on average in a less than 50 user environment). The new versions are scheduled to be generally available later this year for purchase through Symantec’s worldwide network of value-added authorized resellers, distributors and systems integrators or directly.

Large and small organizations differ vastly in the complexity of environments and the expertise required to deploy and manage protection which is why Symantec provides different offerings based on those organizational needs. For mid- to large-sized organizations, Symantec offers Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 for on-premises deployment. For smaller organizations, Symantec offers both on-premises and cloud-based solutions with Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition and Symantec Endpoint Protection.cloud, respectively, providing customers with flexibility of choice and freedom of deployment to best meet their business needs.

Symantec Protection Center 2.0:  Effective protection against today’s complex attacks requires correlated visibility into multiple security products along with actionable intelligence to reduce risk and simplify management. Without a way to summarize and prioritize risk factors across products, groups and regions, organizations can easily overlook high-severity threats and compromise their security posture.  Symantec Protection Center 2.0 is a centralized security management console that will allow organizations to identify emerging threats, prioritize tasks and accelerate time to protection based on relevant, actionable intelligence.

To identify emerging threats across local and global environments, Symantec Protection Center will offer a centralized view across the Symantec security portfolio and third-party products through three levels of integration - single sign-on, data collection and process automation.  Organizations will be able to extract local intelligence from their security solutions to identify trends across areas such as malware, spam and assets. Symantec Protection Center delivers context-aware security management by correlating data from enterprise security products along with early warning alerts from the Symantec’s Global Intelligence Network, one of the world’s leading commercial cyber-intelligence communities. Symantec Protection Center 2.0 is fully integrated with Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 and will be available for existing Symantec customers of integrated products at no additional charge later this year.

Symantec Security Framework:  Symantec Endpoint Protection and Symantec Protection Center are part of the Symantec Security Framework, a portfolio of security products and services that enable organizations to counter emerging threats, support new computing models and simplify security management. Symantec’s portfolio of security products and services allow organizations to pursue innovations - such as mobile, cloud and virtual computing models. By providing relevant, actionable security intelligence and simultaneously simplifying security management, businesses can increase both the efficiency and effectiveness of their security posture.

Quotes:

  • “With the right protection, virtual environments can be as secure, or even more secure, than traditional infrastructure as a result of increased standardization, visibility, automation and control available in high-density environments. Symantec Endpoint Protection defends against all types of attacks and is optimized for performance on VMware View and VMware vSphere®.”
    -- Francis deSouza, Senior Vice President, Enterprise Security Group, Symantec
  • “Organizations leveraging the VMware vSphere® platform require superior security effectiveness that doesn’t sacrifice performance. We’re working closely with Symantec, including continued collaboration on VMware vShield, to remove security barriers for customers and help them expand their virtualization projects to enable enterprise hybrid clouds.”
    --Parag Patel, Vice President, Global Strategic Alliances, VMware
  • "I’m interested in virtualizing more of my environments, but security must continue to function effectively without causing unacceptable slowdowns. Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 in a virtual environment is demonstrating a high level of performance without sacrificing the security of my virtual machines."
    -- Seth Shestack, Associate Director of Information Security, Temple University
  • “The best thing about Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition is that we don’t even know it is there – the product didn’t slow anything down, the installation was flawless and we know we’re protected. It is not common practice for us to participate in beta programs, but our confidence in Symantec is so high that in this case, participating in the beta felt risk-free. We have had a great experience with this product throughout the years, and we are impressed with how Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 Small Business Edition continues to completely protect our business information.” 
    -- Paul Shager, Sales Manager, Sea-Way Marine
  • “Symantec Endpoint Protection  Small Business Edition protects our case workers while they are out in the field. Their laptops contain sensitive information, and the new protection features offered in the beta have enabled The Arc to save both time and money that would have been spent remediating infected computers.  Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 Small Business Edition has helped us simplify the management of our systems.”
    --Linda Yurko, Associate Executive Director, The Arc of Greensboro
  • “Bringing security intelligence, internal threat reporting and real-time global threat information together in a single web interface that supports role specific views is critical to reducing operational security overhead and improves an organization’s ability to take immediate action against advanced persistent threats.”
    -- Lawrence Pingree, Research Director - Datacenter Transformation & Cloud Security, Gartner

Symantec Insight
Insight is Symantec’s award-winning community and cloud-based reputation technology that blocks new and unknown threats missed by other security solutions.

 

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About Business Solutions from Symantec

Symantec’s Canadian operations are headquartered in Toronto with offices in Montreal, Ottawa, Calgary and Vancouver.  For more information on Symantec products or current promotions, access Symantec’s Canadian Web site at www.symantec.ca. Symantec is an active member of the Business Software Alliance (BSA).

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 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 to Combine eDiscovery, Data Loss Prevention, and Encryption to Define Information Governance

Symantec Enterprise Vault 10 archiving software will help organizations improve management and eDiscovery of information on-premise and in the cloud

 

TORONTO, ON - May 4, 2011 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced Symantec Enterprise Vault 10, Enterprise Vault.cloud, and Cloud Storage for Enterprise Vault to enable organizations to manage and discover their information with unprecedented speed, efficiency and scale, on-premise and in the cloud.  Symantec Enterprise Vault 10 software will add new integration with Symantec's data loss prevention and encryption technologies to archive and discover organizations’ information without compromising confidential information, in addition to allowing organizations to discover data stored in the cloud and from social networks.  Symantec's Software-as-a-Service-based Enterprise Vault.cloud will offer unlimited cloud storage for e-mail, with rapid search and access, for a flat fee per mailbox per month. 

 

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According to Gartner, law firms and eDiscovery service providers will require their clients to adopt more formal information management processes to help reduce the costs and risks associated with discovery. Companies without an information governance strategy and archiving solutions will spend approximately 33 percent more on eDiscovery.[1]

 

“Information streams are evolving from email to social networks and archives are moving from on-premise to the cloud, causing IT administrators to lose sleep over managing  information and  lawyers to debate new retention policies,” said Brian Dye, vice president of product management, Symantec. “Symantec Enterprise Vault and Enterprise Vault.cloud removes the stress from IT and legal users with its best of breed archiving technology to allow greater control and visibility into the archives to reduce eDiscovery costs.”

 

Classifying Specific Emails

An important new feature of Enterprise Vault 10 is the Data Classification Service (DCS).  This new feature leverages Symantec's data loss prevention technology to analyze email content and metadata to automatically classify the email and assign the appropriate archiving and retention policy for that message or even flag the message to be reviewed for compliance reasons.  Classifications can also be used as filters to speed up the search and review process for eDiscovery. Additionally, customers who have implemented Symantec Data Loss Prevention can share classification policies to greatly simplify the automated classification of information. Enterprise Vault also adds new integration with Symantec’s encryption technologies to allow organizations to effectively classify, store, and discover encrypted information.

 

Social Media Archiving

Posts to an organization's publicly-facing social media outlets including blogs, Facebook pages and Twitter feeds are considered business communications that must be preserved according to the same industry-specific regulations governing the retention and discovery of  emails, instant messages and other electronic records. Through new partnerships with CommonDesk, FaceTime, Hanzo and Socialware, Enterprise Vault 10 automatically archives social media interactions for compliance, eDiscovery or corporate governance purposes. Organizations can comply with requirements for social media communications without restricting or banning the use of those tools.

 

On-premise, Hybrid, and in the Cloud

Recognized globally as a leading provider of on premise archiving products, Symantec will continue to enhance its Symantec.cloud email archiving service under the name Symantec Enterprise Vault.cloud.  This change will take place beginning in June 2011.  The service enables organizations of all sizes to address the challenges of email storage management, legal discovery, and regulatory compliance, with the ease and efficiency of a purely hosted archiving service. With no hardware, software, or plug-ins to install and maintain, this solution offers unlimited email storage and retention in secure enterprise-class data centers for a flat fee per mailbox per month.   

 

Symantec also announced Enterprise Vault Cloud Storage for Nirvanix, a hybrid model designed to make using the cloud for archiving as easy as managing on-premise storage while also lowering costs. The Symantec connector for Enterprise Vault Cloud Storage for Nirvanix optimizes how businesses use the cloud to archive information.

 

Supporting Quotes: 

·         “The new components of Symantec’s Enterprise Vault focus on solving what we expect to soon be new challenges in the overall archive and information retention space around social media content and advancing SharePoint management,” said Brian Babineau, vice president of research and analyst services of Enterprise Strategy Group. “While Symantec is addressing the future of enterprise collaboration, they are also adding automated classification, enhanced search and cloud capabilities to help organizations address today’s archiving challenges – the massive data growth.”

·         “Social media sites, particularly Facebook, have become such an important part of our marketing team's efforts and we don’t want to restrict access to those networks,” said Gregg Davis, senior vice president and CIO, Webcor Builders. “We've been an Enterprise Vault customer for a number of years, and it's been an invaluable tool for helping us manage email records and comply with eDiscovery requests. Facebook is quickly becoming as popular a communications tool for us as email, and we need the ability to archive social media interactions the same way do emails.”

·         “Social networking is pervasive across the financial services industry for building business relationships throughout roles including marketing, sales, and recruiting, and that presents the same demands for effective information management and discovery as email has required,” said Mike Williams, vice president of strategy, Socialware. “Partnering with Symantec enables our customers to overcome the barriers to leveraging social media while still satisfying the industry's strict requirements governing communications.”

·          “The integration of Hanzo Enterprise Web Archive and Symantec Enterprise Vault 10 and Discovery Accelerator provides organizations with the unique ability to combine business content flowing through websites, SharePoint, Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn, and other social networks, all in one place.” said Mark Middleton, CEO of Hanzo Archives.  “Our joint solution, based around our Web Archive Connector, helps streamline the archiving process for organizations bridging into new media.”

·         “The addition of Symantec Enterprise Vault to our ‘One Click to the Cloud’ solution portfolio is an important move to address the long-term archiving of information to the enterprise-grade cloud,” said Scott Genereux, president & CEO, Nirvanix. “The cloud model changes the whole acquisition cycle and avoids the maintenance and technology upgrade costs. Symantec Enterprise Vault Cloud Storage for Nirvanix simplifies archiving right out of the box and leverages global cloud economics to positively impact business.”

 

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Symantec Enterprise Vault 10 is scheduled to be available worldwide in the second half of the year.

 

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About Storage from Symantec

Symantec’s Canadian operations are headquartered in Toronto with offices in Montreal, Ottawa, Calgary and Vancouver.  For more information on Symantec products or current promotions, access Symantec’s Canadian Web site at www.symantec.ca. Symantec is an active member of the Business Software Alliance (BSA).

Symantec helps organizations secure and manage their information-driven world with storage management, email archiving, backup & recovery solutions.

 

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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NOTE TO EDITORS: If you would like additional information on Symantec Corporation and its products, please visit the Symantec News Room at http://www.symantec.com/news. All prices noted are in U.S. dollars and are valid only in the United States.

 

Symantec and Symantec Logo, and the Checkmark Logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Symantec Corporation or its affiliates in the U.S. and other countries. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

 

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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