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The Windy City Breezes Through Another Successful Cyber Readiness Challenge
Pamela Reese | 11 Feb 2013 | 0 comments

On February 5, 2013, Symantec hosted another Cyber Readiness Challenge event; the series promotes discussions surrounding the evolving cyberthreat landscape with an end goal of helping organizations mitigate risk and maintain their security posture. Symantec previously hosted games in Toronto, Irvine, California and Dallas. Last week, we brought the challenge to the windy city of Chicago where more than 60 participants gathered at the University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) campus to engage in an evening of friendly competition. In fact, the setting proved to be an ideal meeting spot, enabling both security research...

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Best Practices and Troubleshooting for Group Update Providers
Sumit G | 12 Feb 2013 | 0 comments

Here are the Best Practices and Troubleshooting articles which are related to GUP.

Group Update Provider: Sizing and Scaling Guidelines

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH95353

Best Practices with Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) Group Update Providers (GUP)

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=content&id=TECH93813

Configuring the Group Update Provider (GUP) in Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.0 RU5

http://www.symantec.com/business/support/index?page=...

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Knowledge Base Articles links of ADC Policy
Sumit G | 12 Feb 2013 | 0 comments

In this Blog, I have mentioned the number of articles links which can help and guide about ADC policy.

 

Best Practices for Deploying Symantec Endpoint Protection's Application and Device Control Policies

http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH145973

 

Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager - Application and Device Control - Policies explained

http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH104431

 

White Paper on Application and Device Control

http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/security/ADC/Configuring_Application_Control_1.1.pdf

 

How to configure Application Control in Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.0 : Configuring...

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Articles for Client level Troubleshooting
Sumit G | 10 Feb 2013 | 0 comments

Hi Friends,

In this blog i have added some Troubleshooting Articles which can help for Client level Diagnose

 

Proactive Threat Protection definitions will not update, showing "Waiting for updates" or initial install definitions
http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH171458

PTP Services is not working in SEP
https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/downloads/ptp-services-not-working-sep

Proactive Threat Protection in a Symantec Endpoint Protection client is disabled in client user interface and "Event ID 74 TruScan has generated an error: code 14: description: CAL Failure" shows in the Windows Application log
http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH106159

 
Proactive Threat Protection is not...

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Troubleshooting Articles for Repairing the Corrupted Definition
Sumit G | 09 Feb 2013 | 1 comment

Hi Friends,

In this blog i have added some Troubleshooting Articles which can help to Repairing the Corrupted Definition

 

How to clear corrupt Virus Definitions from SEPM
https://www-secure.symantec.com/connect/articles/how-clear-corrupt-virus-definitions-sepm

Using the "Rx4DefsSEP" utility
http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH93036

Using the "Rx4Defs64" utility
http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH105038

Drive Space used by Virus Definitions Updates
http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH141811

Disk Space Management procedures for the Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager
...

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How To Create a Single or Multiple GUP
Syed saied | 07 Feb 2013 | 0 comments

How To Create a GUP

First Installed SEP client on that machine which you want to create as a GUP. and then follow the below mention steps.

1. Login in to SEPM Console.

2. Click on Policy.

3. Then Click on Live Update.

4. Click on Add a LiveUpdate Settings Policy.

5. Then Given the Policy name and discriptions. and check mark on "Enable this Policy"

6. Click on Server Setting under Windows Setting.

7. Check mark on Use a Group update Provider and then click on Group Update Provider tab.

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Evolving Endpoint Security
Vikram Kumar-SAV to SEP | 05 Feb 2013 | 0 comments

 

Symantec keeps tab on the changing Threat Landscape and incorporates relevant security on its products.Same is the story with SAV to SEP to now SEP 12..

When we had SAV in the market what our customer needed was just a Antivirus to protect their system from downtime..here antivirus was looked more as a Availability facilitator than a core security product..till early 2000.

Even though we had SCS (firewall and IPS) seclected people used the other features.

Starting from 2006-2007 that was a high rise in malware being created and vulnerabilities being exploited..slowly the trend changed and it all came down to money making malwares..

FakeAntivirus, Downadup, Various Blackmailing Trojans etc..here the audience was not high profile..and SEP 11 very well detect and blocks and does whatever it can..Slowly people started using IPS, ADC and found much more can be done with SEP and they are doing it..

However in last few years there has been...

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Dallas Dives into the Symantec Cyber Readiness Challenge
Pamela Reese | 04 Feb 2013 | 0 comments

Symantec is sponsoring a series of Cyber Readiness Challenge events to help organizations better understand cybercriminals, and improve businesses’ ability to defend against today’s threats. Symantec has hosted games in Toronto and Irvine, California, and on January 29, 2013, we brought the challenge to Dallas where underneath the Apollo 7 spacecraft and a Sopwith "pup" more than 100 people gathered to play and watch the competition unfold at the Frontiers of Flight Museum. The Symantec Cyber Readiness Challenge is a technical competition that pits users against each other, according to level of technical ability, in a capture-the-flag style environment, to perform a series of tasks attacking and defending...

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Symantec Security Products Data Sheets
SebastianZ | 02 Feb 2013 | 0 comments

A small compilation from the Symantec Portfolio including Data Sheets of several Symantec Security Products.

 

- Symantec™ Endpoint Protection 12.1.2 (10/12)
http://www.symantec.com/endpoint-protection/data-s...

- Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition 2013 (11/12)
http://www.symantec.com/endpoint-protection-small-...

- Symantec™ Protection Suite Enterprise Edition - Comprehensive, powerful endpoint, messaging, and Web protection, for less
money (06/11)
...

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WHERE BIG DATA AND SECURITY ALIGN
Al Cooley - DeepSight Product Management | 30 Jan 2013 | 0 comments

There has been a data explosion within security teams, as organisations everywhere seek to increase their effectiveness in preventing breaches of defences through improved correlation and data sharing. You have probably seen this happening within your own working environment, too.

In the quest to achieve this sought-after level of ‘good enough’ security, the findings of new research from the Enterprise Strategy Group, ‘Big Data Intersection with Security Analytics’, partially sponsored by Symantec, are encouraging.

You won’t be too surprised to hear that, in our ‘Big Data’ world, we are collecting a lot more data than we used to two years ago. There is only one direction in which that arrow is going to be pointing from now on. What is interesting here, though, is that lots of people are vested in this information to do their job – and that is likely to envelop even more people, across a wide range of roles over the next...

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