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  Created: rcarela 01 Feb 2010

  Slides and Notes from the South Florida Security & Compliance User Group Meeting -1/28/10

  The South Florida Security & Compliance User Group Board of Directors would like to thank everyone who attended the meeting at the Citrix Building on January 28, 2010.  Here attached are the powerpoint presentations that took place.  If anyone would like to present or host a future meeting please let us know.  Please spread the word about our group!  If our group continues to grow so will our experience and knowledge. The Powerpoint presentation file BE12_VCB is titled : Symantec Backup Exec 12.5 VMware - Virtual Consolidate Backup  SIMs is titled: Security Information Managers [SIM/SIEM] More to come in the near future please continue to benefit from using our resources at Symantec.
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  Updated: benr 01 Feb 2010

  Beta Test the New Edition of Endpoint DLP!

  We are recruiting Symantec customers to test drive the newest edition of Symantec Endpoint Data Loss Prevention!  Be the first to see this new edition and help shape the future of DLP.   This Beta test will take place in early February of 2010, but we are recruiting testers only through January 6th.  Our Beta process is designed to minimize your resources for installation since Symantec will provide the hardware for DLP servers and will send a Product Manager and Engineer onsite to configure the software.  Our focus is on collecting your feedback!   Requirements; ·         Must be a current Symantec customer ·         Currently do not have any DLP product in your enterprise ·         Organization size is approximately 500-5,000...
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  Updated: jjesse 16 Nov 2009

  Symantec announces version 10 of DLP

  Symantec has announced version 10 of its DLP product (formerly known as Vontu)  In a press release, Symantec touts DLP 10 as the Symantec has announced Symantec Data Loss Prevention 10, the industry's first open data loss prevention (DLP) platform, which aims to give customers more options to find and fix data loss problems. As organizations strive to center their security strategies around information, DLP becomes essential. Symantec DLP has undergone various changes since they purchased Vontu all geared to making the product stronger and more useful for the security professional. DLP 10 will “allow companies to apply encryption and enterprise rights management (ERM) based on content and will integrate with additional Symantec products. One of the products DLP 10 will integrate with Symantec’s Workflow...
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  Created: jjesse 27 Aug 2009

  Could DLP have prevented the Goldman Sachs issue?

  In an article on Channel Insider, the author raises the question, Could a solid Data Loss Prevention product stopped the transfer of data from Goldman Sachs to a third part web hosting. For those that don’t remember the whole story, a quick Google news search will be a quick refresher or from a New York Times article “Mr. Aleynikov, who is free on $750,000 bond, is suspected of having taken pieces of Goldman software that enables the buying and selling of shares in milliseconds. Banks and hedge funds use such programs to profit from tiny price discrepancies among markets and in...
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  Updated: Adrian Diaz 09 Feb 2011

  Connect And Protect, and BankUnited Story

  We are a financial institution headquartered in sunny South Florida. We are now a new charter and privately held bank. My role in the organization is that of Vice President, Information Security Manager. I have been with the bank for over four years. Our department is structured where we manage and maintain all the technology security layers as well as internal controls to meet regulatory requirements.   Currently GLBA is our main driver for compliance.   Right from when I started with the bank the Information Security and Information Technology departments where at arms over the then antivirus and client firewall suite. We were using SAV 8.x and 9.x as well as SCS firewall products. Every day, it just seemed to be one battle after the other. The Helpdesk kept receiving user complaints on slow machines, constant viruses and malware, machines freezing and crashing, etc. The Desktop team had issues with...
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  Updated: ajeet kumar 09 Feb 2011

  "Connect and Protect- Virus No Chance"

  Myself Ajeet Kumar, Technical Support Engineer. Our Organization is No.1 Partner with Symantec in India for last 8 years in a Row. We are Platinum Level partner of Symantec. Our organization Core Business line is Technical Services, Network Security, Non-Security Solution, Storage, Back-up & Recovery Solution and Infrastucture Management. We have largest corporate customers in India. I am working as Resident Engineer at client office. I am handling Nine SEPM servers in different locations in India. My day to day activity is Update the servers, monitoring the servers, generating the reports, Contact Symantec technical support for new issues. Resolve the client issues. My client is very happy because SEP is not only Antivirus. My client like mostly USB control, Application control, Remote deployment facility. So no more investment for another softwares. I am accessing other unit’s SEPM consoles through remote console on single PC. So no need to log in...
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  Updated: t_dawgy78 28 Sep 2012

  Migrating to Symantec Endpoint Protection SBE 12.0 with 30% Promotion

  The Symantec Protection Suite Small Business Edition Promotion is available through end of this year. For those of you on older Symantec products, this is a great way to upgrade to the new Protection Suite Small Business Ediiton, which includes the new SEP SBE 12.0. Offer details are located here: http://go.symantec.com/protection-suite-promo :Upgrade to SPS SBE and get up to a 30% discount. This offer is valid through the end of this year, and is for any current Symantec customers on the following products: • Symantec Antivirus Corporate Edition • Symantec Client Security • Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery Desktop Edition • Symantec Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange • Symantec Premium Antispam • Symantec AntiVirus for Macintosh
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  Updated: Vikram Kumar-SAV to SEP 28 Sep 2012

  Connect and Protect-Symantec Endpoint Protection -- Always a winner !!

  Hi, I work as a Security Consultant for my company and obviously as an Antivirus specialist. So this story is about a client who had about 8,000 clients and was currently using MacAfee. They were at the end of their contract,  in few months,so they were looking for a better solution as they were hit by number of outbreaks in the last couple of years and were not satisfied with the support provided. So a Conference call was scheduled and I was invited to give my views on which antivirus solution to consider migrating,  and why to switch.  We also discuss the Pros and Cons. Their requirement were pretty simple, but very strict, and they wanted a secure and Malware free environment due to the recent outbreaks which cost them too much with high downtimes and un-availability of critical production servers. So when I joined the Conference, there were about 8 members with their own views and recommendations.  ...
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  Created: Abhishek Pradhan 14 Jul 2009

  How to manually sweep log data from the Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager

  1 To prevent an automatic sweep of the database until after a backup occurs, increase the Site Properties Log Settings to their maximum permissible value. 2 Perform the backup, as you may feel appropriate. 3 On the computer where the manager is installed, open a Web browser and type the following URL: https://localhost:8443/servlet/ConsoleServlet?Acti... After you have performed this task, the log entries for all types of logs are saved in the alternate database table. The original table is kept until the next sweep is initiated. 4 To empty all but the most current entries, perform a second sweep. The original table is cleared and entries then start to be stored there again. 5 Reconfigure the Site Properties Log Settings to the initial preferred values.
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  Updated: Kedar Mohile 22 Jun 2009

  Disk Full Message Erroneously Appears when Downloading LiveUpdate Definitions

  Disk full message erroneously appears when downloading LiveUpdate updates If your network environment already supports the proxy servers that are compliant with the HTTP 1.1 protocol or later, you can disregard this entry. After you have tried to download LiveUpdate for the first time, the following message might appear: "LU1863: Insufficient free disk space There is not enough free disk space for LiveUpdate to operate properly. Please free up disk space on your computer and run LiveUpdate again." You might have insufficient disk space. However, it is much more probable that this message appears in error because the proxy server is unable to send the correct Contents-Length header field. This error message might appear on Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager, a Symantec Endpoint Protection client, or a Symantec Network Access Control client. You should verify that the disk...