Security

AV Comparatives tested Trend Micro’s Worry Free Business Solution against Symantec’s Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition. The tests include on demand scans of threats and false positives.
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TBR’s Benchmarking Security Vendor Infrastructure and Stability report measures at how Symantec compares to five security vendors based on the following criteria: security infrastructure, product and patent portfolio, financial stability, customer base and industry voice. Read the report to find how Symantec ‘s threat research differs from the competition.
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Improve Security, Lower Risk & Lower Costs explains the cost of managing multiple vendors across disparate products and outlines the benefits of consolidating security, storage, and systems management solutions with one strategic vendor.
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Gartner names Symantec a Leader in the 2009 Data Loss Protection Magic Quadrant. Symantec offers the strongest network and workflow capabilities and comprehensive discovery and endpoint features.
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Symantec is positioned in the leaders quadrant of Gartner’s SIEM Magic Quadrant.
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Gartner names Symantec a Leader in the Endpoint Protection Platform Magic Quadrant. Symantec Endpoint Protection provides antivirus, anti-spyware, personal firewall capabilities through a centralized console with continually expanding integration with its client management (Altiris Client Management Suite) and data loss protection (Vontu DLP) solutions.
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Symantec Endpoint Protection consistently delivered faster response time than competing products tested. At its best, Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.0.3 achieved response times that are twice as fast as some competing products tested.
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This comprehensive test, which includes 7 vendors, concentrates on real world use cases and common pain points with traditional endpoint security solutions.
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Symantec is named a Leader in Gartner’s 2008 Magic Quadrant for E-mail Security Boundaries. With extensive experience in the enterprise and SMB markets, Symantec offers comprehensive solutions covering a range of e-mail security functions, multiple delivery models, dashboard reporting and flexible policy options.
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Gartner gives Symantec a positive recommendation as a network access control vendor. Symantec Endpoint Protection provides policy, baseline and access control from a centralized console, giving organizations the functionality they need for NAC.
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The proliferation of endpoints (mobile devices, smartphones, consumer electronics) in the enterprise, and the increased management and security challenges they present, requires a new model: Endpoint Risk and Operations Management. Symantec’s is one of the few vendors to integrate security and management into an open collaborative architecture, with a centralized console to help improve security, reduce complexity and simplify endpoint management.
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Network Access Control is a tricky concept that frequently fails. With Symantec Network Access Control, organizations can use the recommended phased implementation approach that aligns policy with strategic business initiatives, provides a centralized management console, and the flexibility to change policies and grow with business needs.
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Information Risk & Compliance

Symantec Data Loss Prevention has been selected by InfoWorld Magazine as a Technology of the Year Award winner for Best Data Leak Prevention.
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Security Information Manager awarded gold medal in SIEM by Information Security readers
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A new study from the TheInfoPro and Symantec titled “Why Data Loss Prevention?” found that DLP is the top security initiative and pain point for Fortune 1000 companies. The findings are based on over 140 in-depth interviews with Fortune 1000 Information Security professionals about their key issues, budget priorities, and preferred vendors across a range of information security solutions.
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Survey results reveal that 59 percent of ex-employees admit to stealing confidential company information. Many of these instances of data theft could have been prevented with better data loss prevention policies and technologies.
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What makes an organization successful at IT GRC management? An understanding of strategic processes as the base of risk management and compliance, backed by the use of management tools like Symantec’s Control Compliance Suite. Control Compliance Suite helps organizations automate key compliance processes, align business IT to business objectives, and establish monitoring and accountability.
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The newest version of Symantec Control Compliance Suite offers a uniquely integrated solution suitable to large organizations across multiple government and industry regulations and technologies, delivering the automated compliance help users are asking for.
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Learn how Symantec’s Foundation IT Risk Assessment solution can help organizations identify risks and create an action plan aligned with business objectives in as little as three weeks. Identifying and remediating IT risks is no longer optional, no matter an organization’s size, and Symantec’s solution is an ideal place to begin.
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Implementing Symantec software such as Symantec Endpoint Protection, Symantec Total Management Suite, and NetBackup under the guidance of approved partners, Aspirus, a healthcare system based in Wisconsin, experienced $2 million in labor savings and cost avoidance
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Using Symantec security and backup solutions Screen Actors Guild realized $1 million in cost savings, cost avoidance, and productivity improvements in the first two years after implementation.
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Other Security Customer Success Stories:

By implementing Altiris solutions to stream applications on demand to thin clients and manage its endpoints centrally, Azul Brazilian Airlines reduced its TCO by 40 percent, increased asset management efficiency eight-fold, and improve uptime significantly.
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Deploying Symantec Multi-tier Protection has reduced spam volumes by 99.5 percent for Garden City Christian Church employees.
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Symantec Multi-tier Protection prevents 100,000 spam messages and more than 300 viruses per month from infiltrating The Haggarty Group’s email and computer systems.
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Since implementing Symantec Multi-tier Protection four years ago, the Museum of Contemporary Art has not had a single security disruption and has virtually eliminated spam.
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Symantec Endpoint Protection has eliminated USB-borne threats at Pronaca and blocked more than 450 viruses/malware per day, while Symantec Brightmail Gateway has stopped more than 97 percent of spam and increased employee productivity up to 20 percent.
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Symantec Endpoint Protection and Altiris Client Management Suite have enabled the University of North Florida to consolidate its systems management processes under one console and have virtually eliminated malware in its environment.
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The Symantec Internet Security Threat Report offers analysis and discussion of threat activity over a six-month period. It covers Internet attacks, vulnerabilities, malicious code, phishing, spam and security risks as well as future trends. The thirteenth version of the report, released April 8, 2008, is available.
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Technology growth on the Web has changed the way businesses and consumers communicate and interact with each other. The Symantec Web Based Attacks report describes the anatomy of web based attacks and examines some of the factors that have influenced a shift toward this type of attack over the last year.
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The monthly State of Spam Report highlights major spam events and trends impacting consumers and business globally, as observed during the previous month by Symantec’s Global Intelligence Network and team of spam experts.
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The Symantec Government Internet Security Threat Report provides an annual summary and analysis of trends in attacks, vulnerabilities, malicious code, phishing, and spam as they pertain to organizations in government and critical infrastructure sectors. This volume also provides an overview of observed activities on underground economy servers. Where possible, it includes an overview of legislative efforts to combat these attack patterns and activities.
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This guide provides practical advice on preventing data loss, addressing policy compliance, securing network endpoints, controlling network access, improving mobile security, strengthening messaging security and choosing a managed security provider.
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This webcast will cover highlights from the recently published Symantec Government Internet Security Threat Report, Volume XIV (April, 2009) with key findings specifically for government.
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