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KatieBurton | 03 May 2011 | 1 comment

 

Battling Advanced Persistent Threats with Relevant Actionable Intelligence

High profile assualts today such as Hydraq and Stuxnet are prime examples of how attackers are taking advantage of visibility and protection gaps in our customers environments. Attackers- albeit cyber criminals, nationalists, or malicious insiders- are relying on the simple fact that managing security is complex. It’s nearly impossible to keep a real-time status of your security posture, and the protection measures you have in place to secure your confidential information and the infrastructure where it resides.

 

To add insult to injury, many of the security technologies that are used to monitor and protect our environments are already in place, yet the bad guys keep getting through. So what gives? How can we get ahead of these attacks?

 

At Symantec we believe that combining and correlating local and global threat...

dschrader | 01 May 2011 | 9 comments

 

This week Symantec introduced the concept of V-Ray – tools that provide visibility into virtual environments.  SEP itself has been enhanced to seamlessly support virtualization.  Today’s blog is a checklist for configuring Symantec Endpoint Protection to play nicely in a virtual space.  Optimizing a new product is a work in progress, so if you have suggestions on addition steps/settings to better allow SEP to run in VDI, let me know.  (My thanks to Anthony Flaviani for much of this material).

1.       Ensure that Insight is enabled. 

Insight determines a file's security rating by examining the following characteristics of the file and its context:

•      The source of the file

•      How new the file is

•      How common the file is in the community

•  ...

dschrader | 28 Dec 2010 | 0 comments

Gartner just released their annual report on endpoint security (see: Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms, Gartner, 2010)

As you can read in the report, Symantec extended its lead both in terms of vision and ability to execute.  What is really notable, however, is the strong statement Gartner made about the future of endpoint security.  The reports starts with an indictment, "Malware effectiveness continues to accelerate, while vendors are busy polishing increasingly ineffective solutions and doing little to fundamentally reduce the attack surface and protect users."

Gartner goes on to state, "Signature-based malware detection has been limping along on life support for...