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IT Analytics Now Available to SEP Customers!

Hear4U | 30 Aug 2010 | 3 comments

Hello All,

IT Analytics (ITA) will now be offered to SEP, Altiris and Protection Suite customers for free via FileConnnect.

There will be no changes from how ITA is currently supported. GDSS will continue to route all ITA calls to the Altiris support team to be resolved.

Below is some general information and links concerning ITA.

Thank you,

-Sean Downs

Symantec IT Analytics FAQ

Q1. What is IT Analytics?

IT Analytics enables users to maximize the value of the data that resides within the Altiris and Symantec Endpoint Protection by incorporating multidimensional analysis and robust graphical reporting features. This allows users to explore the...

Denver User Group - Symantec Control Compliance Suite Update and Roadmap

PaulB | 26 Jul 2010 | 0 comments

We had a great meeting last Wednesday, where Ronnie Blewer did an excellent presentation on the direction Symantec is taking with the Control Compliance Suite and how it can impact our businesses. We also had an update from Chris Sandalcidi on the extremely recent exploit Stuxnet and questions concerning its objective. Ronnie Blewer's presentation has also been attached to this posting. Thank you to all who attended.

Customer Success Stories - Part I

Hear4U | 20 Jul 2010

If you are considering a Symantec product for your business, this is a great place to start! Let us help you understand how to utilize the power of Symantec's solutions. Information discussed includes key challenges, environment, applications, services provided, among others. This new series of Customer Success Stories will focus on both small/mid-size businesses, and enterprise success stories. Links are generally PDF files.

Small and Mid-Size Business

Apprise Software (U.S.)
For Apprise Software, Symantec Hosted Endpoint Protection provides improved protection, is simple to deploy and easy to use, and will cut its monthly security review time in half. View story

John Septimus Roe Anglican Community School (Australia)
Since...

Slides from the last South Florida Security & Compliance User Group - 05/20/2010

Michel Ramirez | 25 May 2010 | 0 comments

Hi Everyone,
Attached are the slides from our last meeting. We had a great turn out and we hope to see you all at future meetings.

Creating a Compliance Framework with Symantec products

Neil Christie | 26 Apr 2010 | 3 comments

I want to create this blog to start sharing ideas on how different customers of Symantec products are using them to create a compliance framework. I am going to explore the two main areas of my expertise, but would invite anyone using any other Symantec products to inject comments where appropriate.

The two products that I am going to focus on are as follows:

- Symantec Control and Compliance Suite Version 9 (CCS)

- Symantec Data Loss Prevention Version 9 (DLP)

I will be sharing as appropriate the road traveled for our compliance program.

The first mile on the compliance highway includes the following:

- Install and configure DLP discover to create an inventory of where sensitive data resides
- Install and configure CCS and run Center for Internet Security (CIS) baselines across relevant technologies in use
- Create seperate CCS Standards for each technology based on CIS
- Remove and modify CIS...

Working with Government on IT Security Automation Solutions

Joe Pendry | 19 Nov 2009 | 0 comments

This week, Symantec participated in the 5th Annual IT Security Automation Conference held in Baltimore from October 26-30. This event is jointly sponsored by National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), National Security Agency (NSA), Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA), Department of Homeland Security (DHS).

The event brought together some of the leading organizations in government and industry seeking to address the basic challenge a common approach to securing government environments and information. And while the notion of common security standards isn’t new, the amount of initiatives that have complicated this area seems to be growing exponentially. The conference touched on a number of top IT initiatives that provide the top challenges and drive the most important security initiatives in government today:
Cloud Computing

Health Information Technology (IT)
Health Information Portability and...

Symantec Podcast

Grant_Hall | 28 May 2009 | 1 comment

Don't know if this has been brought to peoples attention yet, but as of May 22, 2009 Symantec has released a new site devoted to Symantec's podcasts. These podcasts cover a wide variety of products and ideas. Customers and employees alike will be able to subscribe to these podcasts and receive RSS updates whenever new podcasts are available. The website for the podcasts is at http://www.symantec.com/podcasts . In general these podcast are broken down into eight different categories. These categories include:

Security Response—Learn how to avoid phishing attacks, how Norton AntiVirus products help protect your environment, how to safeguard your smartphones and PDAs, how to protect against business disruptions, and more.

Home Users—Topics cover online family safety, how to prevent cyberbullying, protection against identity...

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