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Hear4U | 20 Jul 2010 | 0 comments

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.

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Goodbye CSA

dschrader | 24 Jun 2010 | 0 comments

Cisco recently announced end of-sales and the coming end-of-life the Cisco Security Agent (CSA) with support ending in a few years. CSA users shouldn’t wait until then to switch to a full featured security solution from a vendor that is committed to security.

When Cisco first acquired Okena (the creators of CSA), it represented a bold but flawed vision of the future of endpoint security. The promise behind CSA was proactive, zero-day protection against malicious code and intrusions through rules-based host intrusion prevention system (HIPS). The implied promise was that behavioral protection would replace signature scanning and eliminate the need for virus protection. Later, Cisco relented and started recommending that CSA be used in conjunction with an open source antivirus engine called ClamAV. However, ClamAV has never offered state-of-the-art detection and even combined, CSA and ClamAV lack key layers of protection needed...

"Good Stuff"

PaulB | 22 Jun 2010 | 2 comments

Here is some belated, but valuable information from the last Security & Compliance User Group meeting.

There are slides from a presentation on Data Loss Prevention by a member,

and also slides on Threat and Virus Best Practices by a Symantec SE.

Top Honor for SEP Small Business 12.0 at Microsoft Tech·Ed Conference

Sagar Desai | 22 Jun 2010 | 0 comments

Recently, Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition was recognized as the Best of Tech·Ed 2010 award winner in the Security category. According to the awards judges, Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business was chosen based on its innovation, strategic importance to the market, competitive advantage and exceptional value to customer.

The awards were announced at Microsoft’s Tech·Ed 2010 Conference, which took place in New Orleans earlier this month. With more than 7,000 attendees, companies that offer innovative products for the SMB market were evaluated and recognized. Judges reviewed 298 products and services submitted prior to the event and chose 46 finalists to participate in a rigorous interview and product demonstration at the conference. Symantec had double reasons to celebrate. In addition to the Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition topping the Security category, Symantec's...

What a difference a year makes—SMBs are cracking down on information protection

Gina Sheibley | 21 Jun 2010 | 0 comments

The results from Symantec’s 2010 Small and Midsized Business (SMB) Information Protection Survey are in and they tell a much different story than a survey we conducted in 2009. SMBs—many of whom admitted to forgoing even the most basic protection such as backup and antivirus just 15 months ago —are now getting serious about information protection and are seeing data loss as a real threat.

So why the change? Based on the results, I’d say it’s because SMBs are feeling the effects of information loss and cyber attacks first hand. Out of the 2,152 SMB executives and IT decision makers in 28 countries surveyed, nearly 75 percent experienced cyber attacks in the past year, which caused expensive downtime, loss of important corporate data as well as personally identifiable information of customers or employees.

Or maybe it’s the fact that SMBs realized just how costly it can be when an employee loses a device that contains company...

Open Invitation - What Videos Would Be Most Helpful To You?

Hear4U | 05 Jun 2010 | 1 comment

We want to hear from you! What videos can we produce that will help you setup, configure, troubleshoot your SEP installation(s)? We plan on reviewing every submission, so please take some time to detail exactly what you'd like to see. Give votes to those you agree with, and we'll put our team to work and provide the videos within the next several weeks (read: before the end of June)!

Let the submissions begin!

Eric

Small Businesses: You’re Handling Important Information, Is it Protected?

Blake M | 25 May 2010 | 0 comments

Customer account information, credit and debit card numbers, important business files, a day of productivity – what do all of these things have in common? Losing any one of them can be devastating to a small business.

According to a 2009 survey by Symantec and the National Cyber Security Alliance (NCSA), small businesses are storing important information: 65 percent store customer data, 43 percent store financial records, 33 percent store credit card information, and 20 percent have intellectual property and other sensitive corporate content online.

Whether it’s due to a malware attack, a server crash, or a loss of confidential information via email, downtime can be highly detrimental, if not fatal, to a small business. So how can small businesses fully secure their critical information, despite resource and budget constraints? Today’s companies need the right protection at the right price, tailored to their businesses.

In conjunction with...

Subscribe to the Security Newsletter and you could win a Flip Ultra Cam!

Hear4U | 10 May 2010 | 0 comments

If you want to get the most recent videos, blog posts, and articles from the Security community, then you should consider subscribing to the Security Community Newsletter (being sent this week!) By subscribing between now and Wednesday PDT, you may be entered to win a Flip Ultra Cam.

Here's how it works.

1. Subscribe to the newsletter by visiting the "My Profile" area. Click on "Newsletters" and select "Security."

2. Once you receive the newsletter, check out all the great content it has to offer - which is key to earning a chance to win the flip!

3. Write a blog post, and submit it to Connect by May 23rd. Your blog post should discuss how you have utilized, or taken advantage of one of the topics listed in the newsletter.
(As an example, there is a video discussing RU6 in the newsletter. Your blog could discuss what you have found...

Living with Passwords

khaley | 25 Mar 2010 | 2 comments

I recently ran a survey on password management. You can see my original blog and even take the survey yourself here. At best, I thought 20 or so of you would take the time to fill out the survey…and that would include most of my close relatives. However, instead we got more than 400 responses in a few short days (not even including my relatives). So, thank you to all who took the time to complete the survey. I’ve posted the results below.

I want to comment on some of the results. It may be a stretch to draw too many definitive conclusions from the data, but it will be fun nonetheless. If anyone wants to comment, correct or vehemently disagree with any of my conclusions please feel free to do so.

Let’s get started!

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Symantec Virus Detection Compared to Other Applications

sandip_sali | 18 Mar 2010 | 1 comment

Symantec is undoubtedly the world leader in protecting systems and networks from security threats. It also handles the most complicated tasks of avoiding false positive detection and cleaning/deleting the encountered security threat.

Lately, there has been a rise in other antivirus programs catching false positive's and posing them as actual security threats! As a result, it might give a customer the sense that SEP isn't doing what it was designed to do. Our response team performs a herculean task of analyzing a number of suspected files submitted to us.

When I say "Security Threat," I mean Trojans, worms, and hoaxes. Symantec endpoint has a different approach to handle them. Needless to say, the customers data security and software stability is our prime objective, which at times is not targeted by the free antivirus software. Symantec has been known for detecting the lowest percentage of False Positive threats....

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