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Featured: Hackers attack Epsilon database, phishing spree anticipated

Dianne W | 13 Apr 2011 | 0 comments

The email communications firm Epsilon suffered a database hack on March 30. The Epsilon database hack exposed the names and email addresses of millions of consumers at credit card corporations and major retailers. Many major charge card holders are receiving warnings from banks about the breach, which is likely to spawn a spate of spam in the form of phishing emails. Article source - Epsilon database hack exposes millions to phishing attacks by MoneyBlogNewz.

Epsilon clients hit by database hack

There were millions of email addresses and names stolen in the database hack at Epsilon. This could make history with how large it was. Friday, Epsilon declared that customer files were hacked meaning emails and other information at web sites may have been stolen as Epsilon sends over 40 billion marketing emails for 2,500 businesses annually.

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Featured: Symantec's Free Technical Support Email Bulletin

sandip_sali | 10 Jan 2011 | 0 comments

Symantec's free Technical Support Email Bulletins keep you informed about:

Timely notification of product upgrades

Descriptions of the latest offerings from Technical Support

Updates and downloads for your Symantec product

Product tips and tricks

Subscribing is easy. Depending on your Symantec product, you’ll receive your Bulletin by email monthly or quarterly. We also send out special issues as needed.

Featured: Symantec Security Information Manager - Event Coming December 15th

tzambrovitz | 12 Nov 2010 | 1 comment

Do you want to do more with less? Are you currently using Symantec’s Security Information Manager and looking for new and innovative ways to derive more value from your investment? Would you like to meet your peers and understand how they are solving similar challenges you face?

Then the quarterly online community forum, The SSIMUI (Symantec Security Information Manager User Interface - Group), is exactly where you want to be in December. This quarter’s headline presenter will be Peter Grina from Morgan Stanley who will discuss how they has been able to customize his SSIM deployment to meet their unique use case requirements.

Check out the Event Details here, and check back for registration information and other details!

https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/events/...

Featured: Why Did You Buy (or not) Symantec Security Products? Enter To Win an iPad!

Hear4U | 13 Oct 2010 | 2 comments

Symantec wants to hear from you! Were you a part of the decision making team to purchase one or more Symantec products, such as Endpoint Protection 11 or 12? Or, were you a part of the decision making team to vote against purchasing a Symantec product? If so, we’d like to hear why.

This is a quick process (as little as 20 minutes).

For your valuable input, you’ll be entered into an exclusive raffle to win a 16 GB Wi-Fi enabled Apple iPad!

To participate, simply send an email to product management, to schedule a short call at a time convenient for you. This call will not be a sales call by any means, but rather an opportunity for you to share why you bought or decided not to buy our products. Sign up today, tell your story and enter to win a...

Featured: Win a Flip Ultra Or 1000 SymConnect Points

Hear4U | 12 Oct 2010 | 0 comments

Symantec is giving away 1 Flip Ultra or 1000 SymConnect points every month through December, 2010. To enter the drawing, simply answer one question. Tell us how likely you are to recommend Symantec to a colleague or friend.

Enter to win today!

Featured: With Data Breaches Increasing, a Strategic Approach to Encryption is Essential

Hear4U | 08 Oct 2010 | 0 comments

With Data Breaches Increasing, a Strategic Approach to Encryption Is Essential

Why are enterprises using encryption? What encryption applications are in use? How are organizations planning for encryption?

Those are just a few of the questions that the Ponemon Institute, sponsored by PGP Corporation, sought to answer in its fourth annual survey, “U.S. Enterprise Encryption Trends.”

With the frequency and costs of data breaches on the rise, the survey of nearly 1,000 business and IT leaders concluded that “the need for encryption is more apparent than ever.”

This TechBrief summarizes the key findings of the survey.

Breaches continue to be a huge problem

Demonstrating that there has been no letup in data breaches, 85% of the organizations surveyed had at least one breach in the last 12 months, virtually unchanged from the 84% in 2008. Companies experiencing...

Featured: Process to upgrade to RU5

Aniket Amdekar | 22 Sep 2009 | 1 comment

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Step 1: Back up the database

Back up the database used by the Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager to ensure the integrity of your client information.

Step 2: Turn off replication

Turn off replication on all sites that are configured as replication partners. This avoids any attempts to update the database during the installation.

Step 3: Stop the Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager service

The Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager service must be stopped during the installation.

Step 4: Upgrade the Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager software

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Featured: Migrating to Symantec Endpoint Protection SBE 12.0 with 30% Promotion

t_dawgy78 | 04 Aug 2009 | 0 comments

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

Featured: Connect And Protect, HCL Infosystems Story

shp | 04 Aug 2009 | 1 comment

Hi All...

I would like to share my story regarding Symantec Endpoint Protection. I am from HCL Infosystems Ltd, where I am a Customer Engineer managing a team of five people. Specifically, I manage SEP deployments for our customers.

This particular customer had an older AV software installed which wasn't providing thorough protectio - a virus outbreak in the network caused many of the machines to go down for extended periods of time. The customer decided to go with SEP primarily because of its new features. Specifically, they wanted individual management points in each location, and one central location to manage the entire infrastructure. Previously, they were not able to bring all clients under one management console due to various difficulties. The deployment consisted of 49 locations across India, with one server in each location. Additionally, one server was deployed in Bangalore as the primary server. The...

Featured: Connect And Protect | How Symantec Endpoint Protection became EGS's top choice!

Nel Ramos | 22 Jul 2009 | 18 comments

Connect And Protect | How Symantec Endpoint Protection became EGS's top choice!

Your role in the organization/company:

I am Nel Ramos, the Anti-virus POC (Point of Contact) of EGS, a multinational company that covers 5 continents of the world namely: North America, South America, Europe, Asia and Africa. I lead a team designated to monitor virus infections and outbreaks, analyze existing data on virus and spyware trending, perform research on new applications and tools to counter possible threats and advice ground IT personnel on the resolution of issues related but not limited to virus infections. Our team’s operation is 24/7 in ensuring that the company’s valuable data would not be vulnerable to data theft, data manipulation on an internal or external manner, interference of business-critical services, and damage the organization’s status. It also consists of more than 10,000 hardware systems that are multi-plat formed...

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