By John W. Thompson
Are Your Endpoints Secure and How Do You Know?
With a widening group of users tapping into corporate resources, enterprises need a simpler way to secure their growing number of endpoints and ensure compliance with both internal security policies and external regulations. And, this must be down in the face of the never ending challenge associated with a tight IT budget.
To tackle this challenge, it requires the integration of compliance, network access control, and threat protection into a single solution that's easier to install and manage. The combination of antivirus, antispyware, firewall, host- and network-based intrusion protection solutions, and application and device control under a single umbrella provides IT organizations with the ability to proactively - and automatically - analyze application behaviors and network communications to detect and block attacks. Recently, we announced the availability of Symantec Endpoint Protection, the most significant update to Symantec's market-leading enterprise antivirus product in years. It is the culmination of years of work to take the innovative technologies we have acquired - from Sygate, Whole Security, and Veritas - and integrate them with core Symantec technologies to deliver a single, multi-layered security solution. It offers comprehensive protection, in a single agent, with a single management console that significantly reduces memory footprint. Above all, it gets the job done.
We believe this is a game-changing solution - one that resets the bar not just for antivirus, but for endpoint protection. We are very excited to make this solution available to our customers and look forward to hearing how it's helped you solve your security challenges.
In this issue of CIO Digest, we offer several articles on a number of security-related challenges. In "Security Makeover: Consolidating Your Security Infrastructure," four IT executives discuss how cost still matters when it comes to their security infrastructure, though the most valuable benefits come from improved IT management, compliance readiness, and reduced security breaches. "Making the IT Audit: Pinpointing the Right IT Compliance Strategy" focuses on how more and more companies are finding that compliance activities such as audits can actually guide them to better governance, more efficient operations, and fewer instances of data loss. And make certain to read "Predictive Security Marketplaces," our exclusive interview with Dave Cullinane, the chief information security officer of eBay Marketplaces, that reveals the inner-workings of how one of the world's most successful Internet companies combats more than four million security attacks annually and gives its more than 240 million registered members confidence in a connected world.
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