Education Enablement Services is developing a Symantec Cloud Security Essentials course that combines the CSA training in order to achieve the CCSK credential & a Symantec Certified Professional (SCP) in Cloud Security credential. 

This is an open call for your experiences with reviewing, designing, or implementing security solutions in a cloud environment.  These could come from situations unique to the cloud (ex. compliance issues for systems in a public cloud) - OR - general security solutions addressed in cloud environments (ex. how existing encryption policies were applied to a cloud architecture). 

We need your:
• Specific examples of security solutions in cloud environments
• Example cloud architectures – good or bad – implemented by customers
• Key questions, challenges, and concerns from customers migrating their infrastructure to cloud
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Many organizations are using Critical System Protection to monitor system activity and alert if and when a host has been compromised. As the attacks to servers become more sophisticated, it’s becoming more important for organizations to block malicious activity automatically - whether the attack originates from internal or external parties - to prevent further incursion of their environment.

What has prevented a number of customers from moving to host IPS is the fear of false positives, and what impact the prevention may have on the applications or server workloads being supported.

With the most recent release of Critical System Protection customers are now able to selectively enable prevention policies without the fear of stopping critical business processes.

Targeted Prevention Policy (available in the...

The Protection Center Team is proud to announce the release of Symantec Protection Center 2.0 Release Update 1 (SPC RU1), which was published today to the LiveUpdate Publishing Service.  SPC 2.0 Customers will be notified that an update to SPC is available for download.  This is a LiveUpdate release only.  This update provides fixes for a small number of defects and also the ability for SPC customers with Symantec Web Gateway (SWG) 5.0.2 (and later) and Symantec Critical Systems Protection (CSP) 5.2.8 (and later) applications to integrate with the SPC Dashboard. 

Symantec Protection Center is a centralized security management console that enables organizations to identify emerging threats, prioritize tasks and accelerate time to protection based on relevant, actionable intelligence. Through a combination of process automation and security intelligence, it enables users to take timely, targeted action to remediate incidents and proactively...

Symantec just announced a pretty cool, interactive, free tool to help stay abreast of security trends and activities.  It even has historical data!  There’s an online version, a installable Windows gadget and you can access it via your mobile phone!  It's pretty slick!

Online Web Portal:
http://www.nortoncybercrimeindex.com

Windows Gadget Download:
http://www.norton.com/ProtectYourself

Mobile:
http://www.nortoncybercrimeindex.mobi

Check it out!!!

Thanks,
Min Ju