Data Center Security

Is your security organization keen on embedding security into your business and IT processes? Are you interested in delivering security services at the pace of business and IT?  If you answered “yes” to these questions, then you are going to want a solution that can help you:

• Enable application-centric security hardening across your complex and heterogeneous data center environments to enhance security and optimize resources.
• Secure legacy and unsupported platforms while enabling operationally efficient migration into new platforms and data center architectures.
• Simplify continuous monitoring and compliance reporting across your physical and virtual server infrastructure, and across your private (OpenStack), hybrid, and public clouds (AWS).
• Effectively identify policy violations and suspicious activities at an application- or instance-level, in real-time, across your physical and virtual servers, as well as across your AWS and OpenStack clouds.
• Deliver dynamic and operationally efficient antimalware and network IPS protection without taxing network resources and application performance. 
• Secure and harden your OpenStack Keystone implementations.
• Secure your organization’s critical server infrastructure against zero-day threats and new vulnerabilities
• Quickly provision application-centric security hardening for newly created physical and virtual workloads.

We pleased to announce the general availability of Symantec Data Center Security 6.5.

Included in this release of the Symantec Data Center Security product family are:

• Symantec Data Center Security: Server 6.5 introduces Operations Director, a new feature that enables customers to automate and orchestrate security provisioning of anti-malware and network IPS services at the application-level across VMware NSX environments. This capability enables organizations to transition from traditional perimeter-centric security models that mimic physical security infrastructures into dynamic, software-defined security models. By leveraging its out-of-the-box integration with VMware vCenter and VMware NSX, Symantec™ Data Center Security: Server extends the ability to automate and orchestrate application-centric security across third-party security tools that are registered with VMware NSX Service Composer, starting with Palo Alto Networks.
• Symantec Data Center Security: Monitoring Edition 6.5, a new standard product that combines the protection available in Data Center Security: Server 6.5 with security monitoring for physical and virtual servers, Amazon Web Services (AWS), and all modules of OpenStack.  It also introduces out-of-the-box host intrusion detection policies across physical and virtual servers, and expands the number of platforms supported to include KVM and Ubuntu.  With Monitoring Edition, customers can monitor the file integrity and configuration, consolidate event logs, as well as employ whitelisting and application controls across its on-premise and off-premise data centers with a single tool.
• Symantec Data Center Security: Server Advanced 6.5 combines all the protection and security monitoring available in Data Center Security: Server 6.5 and Monitoring Edition 6.5 with full hardening of physical and virtual servers, and OpenStack Keystone.

With this release, customers also have the option to choose the software pricing and licensing model that best fits their needs.  Customers can now choose between the per server or per CPU licensing arrangement.

This release demonstrates Symantec’s commitment to execute its data center security product strategy, which are based on the core tenets of embedding security into the platform, integrating point technologies, and automating and orchestrating security across heterogeneous security tools.  The new capabilities deliver on Symantec’s promise to simplify security across heterogeneous data center environments, and enable software-defined security for the software-defined data centers (SDDC).

To find out more, visit the Symantec Data Center Security page or talk to your Symantec representative or authorized partner.