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Brightmail Administration Event logs

Every so often I hear about a case where an administrator is looking for auditing of Control Center Quarantine administration or other configuration events. Generally, there is some surpise when they are told that the Control Center does have an audit log for such administrative events. Since log reviewing is a core part of security, I do recommend taking a look at the Brightmail Admin Events log and familiarizing yourself with the types of data it contains.

To access the Brightmail Admin Events log from the Control Center:
1. Click on Status.
2. Click on System | Logs in the left pane.
3. Change the Component to Control Center.
4. Change the Log type to Event Logs.
5. Set the Time Range to desired length.
6. Click on Display...

Symantec received a finalist nomination in 12 catagories of the upcoming SC Magazine 2012 Awards, representing Symantec's broad portfolio of superior security offerings. SC Magazine will announce the winners at a dinner event during RSA 2012. Symantec looks forward to attending! 

Best Anti-Malware Gateway(Symantec Web Gateway 5.0)

Best Cloud Computing Security(Symantec Endpoint Protection.cloud)

Best Data Leakage Prevention (DLP)(Symantec Data Loss Prevention)

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Friday July 29th Symantec Protection Center 2.0 was released for General Availability. This release focused on extending the integrations found in our 1.0 release, third party products and the Symantec Global Intelligence Network to provide existing Symantec customers with relevant, actionable security intelligence. See below for an overview of the release and what our beta customers are saying! Protection Center is a free product, available at no additional charge for existing Symantec customers.

Response from Beta Customers

“One stop shop.. In my book it will empower my team.” – Fortune 500 financial services organization
“Install was easy, simply brilliant!” – European IT Value Added Reseller (VAR)
“Already plugging this to my clients, big time” – Enterprise IT Value Added Reseller (VAR)
“Will absolutely recommend to customers with integrated products” – Government IT...