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DCS 6.5 Beta—December  

Nov 24, 2014 11:18 AM

On behalf of all of us in Product Management and Engineering, I would like to thank you for your willingness to be part of the DCS 6.5 Beta. For all of you who also filled in our survey, your anonymous responses were very helpful so we can better understand your needs, environment, and the use-cases you want to investigate with our new product.

Updates since last Blog

Over late October and November, a lot of work has been going on with our Engineering teams, who are busily preparing for the December Beta drop.  We have had a number of pre-Beta trials running inside the company, defect reviews and have a high confidence you will be impressed with our new UI, product features and flexibility to better secure your workloads in your data center.

You may recall in the previous Beta announcement we said we were investigating doing Hands-On Labs to give customers an opportunity to test without having to setup your own environment. Unfortunately, this is a work in progress, so if you are interested in only testing via HoL please email us at DCS65_Beta@symantec.com to indicate your preference.

About the December DCS 6.5 Beta

For all customers who will be downloading and installing DCS 6.5 to your non-production environment, below is a bit of updated background on the Beta. Let me take a moment to explain a bit more of the why’s, what’s and wherefores of our December Beta so you have a good idea of our goals:

  1. First, we are departing from previous Beta periods of 30 days and will be running the Beta from 15/12/14 through to 26/1/15 as we appreciate many activities may lead to your needing to schedule your testing in a quiet period
  2. By offering you a longer testing window, we look forward to you spending time getting to know DCS 6.5, walking through our use-case tests and exploring the product to get an idea how it will help you with security jobs in your company
  3. We will continue to take Beta thoughts, ideas, defects, plus feedback post our 26/1/15 cut-off and we’ll look at that feedback for the basis of future features or fixes.

Exact use-cases and functionality

Functionality Additional Information
REST API  - Automating Security Customers wanting to test the REST API's should ask for a copy on the SymIQ Symantec Data Center Security Beta discussion forum and a copy will be supplied to you.
AWS Windows and RHEL Covered in our testing scripts to aid validation of new functionality
Openstack – Monitoring First customers will be able to monitor and provide application protection for an OpenStack/KVM virtual data center.  We also provide robust detection/monitoring for Openstack modules:
•             Compute (Nova)
•             Identity Service (Keystone)
•             Networking (Neutron)
•             Image Service (Glance)
•             Object Storage (Swift)
•             Block Storage (Cinder)
DCS: Server new UMC UI Covered in our testing scripts to aid validation of new functionality
DCS: Server Advanced – Protection Policy wizard improvements Covered in our testing scripts to aid validation of new functionality
Feedback on improved discovery/mapping of applications and performance
Guest Network Threat Protection (IPS) Covered in our testing scripts to aid validation of new functionality
File Quarantine Covered in our testing scripts to aid validation of new functionality
Cloud Admin initiating security provisioning request Covered in our testing scripts to aid validation of new functionality
(Only works for vApp currently. Need to make sure customer creates a dummy vApp for this testing.)
Cloud admin requesting exception for system recommended policies Covered in our testing scripts to aid validation of new functionality
(Security Profile Editing is currently not feature complete)
Security admin reviewing new provisioning requests and approving them Covered in our testing scripts to aid validation of new functionality
(Only works for vApp currently. Need to make sure customer creates a dummy vApp for this testing.)
Security admin validating that all security policies were applied for a vApp Covered in our testing scripts to aid validation of new functionality
(To be done by checking DCS:Server, DCS:Server Advanced, NSX consoles to validate provisioning activity)
Security admin creating custom tags and mapping them to custom policies in DCS:Server and DCS:Server advanced Covered in our testing scripts to aid validation of new functionality
(Should be able to test mapping to mandates and control statements, and the level of customization required by customers.)
Security admin creating custom application templates and mapping them to rules from PAN Covered in our testing scripts to aid validation of new functionality
Security admin adding new security assessment questions and publishng them into vCenter Covered in our testing scripts to aid validation of new functionality
Security admin viewing list of all policies imported from DCS:Server and DCS: server Advanced Covered in our testing scripts to aid validation of new functionality
(We would like to understand the type of policies that customers want to orchestrate security policies)

For further information on the Beta, please see the SymIQ Symantec Data Center Security Beta forum. (Registration Required)

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