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Symantec Technology Enabled Program (STEP)

The Symantec Technology Enabled Program (STEP) empowers technology partners to integrate and certify their solutions with Symantec’s product portfolio resulting in access to greater market opportunities.

There are two levels of membership, STEP Basic and STEP Technology Tracks:

STEP Basic

By participating at the Base Membership Level, STEP partners can:

Build a technology partnership with Symantec: STEP members have access to Symantec software licenses, technical support and product training
Showcase the partnership: STEP partners can leverage the Symantec Technology Enabled Partner logo and are listed in the STEP Partner Directory, enabling customers, partners, and Symantec to search for and identify partners who can best meet their business needs
Stay informed: STEP partners have access to special membership communications and are eligible to participate in Symantec sponsored events.

STEP Technology Tracks

Partners are invited and encouraged to pursue a deeper level of engagement with Symantec by enrolling in STEP Technology Tracks. Technology tracks enable partners to integrate and certify their products with Symantec’s market leading technologies across three key areas:

Security & Management	Data Protection & Archiving	Storage & Availability
Symantec Protection Center	NetBackup™	Storage Foundation™
Endpoint Management	Enterprise Vault™	FileStore
Control Compliance Suite	Backup Exec™	Cluster Server
VeriSign® Identity Protection Service
Data Loss Prevention
Scan Engine

Technology track participants gain access to benefits such as Software Development Kits (SDKs), developer support and testing and validation services.

Upon completion of product integration and certification, partners can take advantage of the following benefits to promote the certified solution:

Announce the solution through a Symantec supported press release.
Inclusion in product-specific Symantec Compatibility Lists
Leverage the Symantec Compatible Technology logo or Symantec Certified Technology logo (as applicable) to showcase certified/compatible products to potential customers
Highlight the certified solution in the STEP Partner Directory
Participate in marketing activities available exclusively to Technology Track participants (varies by region)

Take the Next Step

Join STEP today to begin developing solutions that unlock new opportunities across markets, around the globe.

Click a category below to learn more about the Technology Tracks available to STEP partners.

Symantec Protection Center
Endpoint Management
Control Compliance Suite
VeriSign® Identity Protection Service
Data Loss Prevention
Scan Engine

Symantec Protection Center Technology Track

Technology Track participants are able to integrate with Symantec Protection Center in three ways: (1) single sign on (2) data collection and (3) action integration. Single sign on provides seamless access to the native management console of integrated products without prompting the user for login credentials. Data collection gives customers the ability to receive security and infrastructure alerts from integrated Symantec and third party solutions centrally in the Protection Center console, and perform cross product reporting across similar data sets. Action integrations expose a set of remediation actions that can be implemented directly from the Protection Center console. These three tiers of integration provide joint customers the ability to better identify emerging threats, prioritize security tasks and accelerate the time to protection across a broad set of market leading solutions.

Endpoint Management Technology Track
Formerly available through the Symantec Developer Program, technology track participants can integrate their applications with Symantec products built upon the Symantec Management Platform, including Symantec Client and Server Management Suites, Symantec Workspace Virtualization, Symantec Asset and IT Service Management Suites, and Symantec Mobile Management.

Control Compliance Suite Technology Track

Technology Track participants develop data connectors that automatically feed compliance relevant data from their applications into Symantec Control Compliance Suite (CCS). CCS maps that data to policies and regulatory mandates to deliver a consolidated view across compliance and security requirements that incorporates data from a variety of sources, providing customers with even greater visibility into their IT risk and compliance posture.

VeriSign® Identity Protection Service Technology Track

The VeriSign Identity Protection Service Technology Track provides the APIs, sample code, and test accounts necessary to add two-factor authentication to partner software via VeriSign Identity Protection Service (VIP). After the partner has completed integration, customers will be able to seamlessly integrate two factor authentication into their client applications to strengthen their online identities (such as username and password) or easily access the VIP Service through their solution. Partners with certified solutions will be featured in the VIP Network Members List.

Data Loss Prevention Technology Track

Technology Track participants integrate their applications with Symantec Data Loss Prevention (DLP) via Symantec’s server FlexResponse Application Programming Interface (API), an open platform for data protection. Partners develop plug-ins that can be used to call custom actions to protect confidential data found to be at risk, based on results from DLP analysis and remediation workflow. DLP allows these protections to be applied selectively and only to files and data found to be exposed in violation of an organization’s security policies. Example actions of FlexResponse plug-ins include invoking file encryption, file quarantine, setting/changing access control lists (ACLs), applying Digital Rights Management (DRM) and invoking workflow.

Scan Engine Technology Track

The Symantec Antivirus SDK enables hardware and software vendors to integrate Symantec’s industry-leading antivirus technologies with products such as network-attached storage, data caching devices and messaging solutions. Featuring support for the Internet Content Adaptation Protocol (ICAP) standard, the Symantec AntiVirus SDK facilitates rapid product integration.

Take a Step

Join STEP to gain access to these Technology Tracks and begin taking advantage of the many benefits available to test, integrate and certify your solution with Symantec’s security product portfolio, and tap into new market opportunities.

NetBackup™
Enterprise Vault™
Backup Exec™

NetBackup™ OpenStorage Technology Track

The OpenStorage (OST) API enables Technology Track participants to integrate their disk-based storage platforms with Symantec NetBackup, providing customers with better management, performance and utilization of their storage assets. Using OST-enabled devices, NetBackup administrators can better leverage the features inherent in the storage devices such as replication and data deduplication. Upon successful certification by Symantec, the storage device is listed in the Symantec NetBackup Hardware Compatibility List.

NetBackup™ XBSA Technology Track

The NetBackup XBSA interface enables an application to create, query, retrieve and delete data objects using NetBackup for backup or archiving purposes. The interface extends the XBSA specification using rules and policies defined by NetBackup for ease of use and enhanced performance.

NetBackup™ Device Testing

Symantec performs certification testing for a variety of storage devices via the following NetBackup Technology Tracks:

NetBackup – NAS/NDMP Technology Track
NetBackup – Virtual Tape Library Technology Track
NetBackup – Tape Drive Technology Track
NetBackup – Tape Library Technology Track

Upon successful certification, storage devices are listed in the NetBackup Hardware Compatibility List.

Enterprise Vault™ Storage Technology Track

The Enterprise Vault Storage Technology Track enables partners to pursue certification of high-performance file-based (via CIFS/SMB) and object-based (via API) storage solutions for use with Symantec Enterprise Vault (EV). Upon successful certification, storage products are listed in the Enterprise Vault Compatibility List.

Enterprise Vault™ API Technology Track

The Enterprise Vault API enables partners to integrate their solutions with Enterprise Vault in various ways including, but not limited to (1) the ability to add new content to the archive, (2) filtering, classifying or decrypting content as it enters the archive (3) searching content within the archive. Upon certification, integrations are listed in the Enterprise Vault Compatibility List.

Backup Exec™ OpenStorage Technology Track

Technology Track participants integrate their disk-based storage platforms with Backup Exec (BE) using Symantec’s OpenStorage API to provide customers with better management, performance and utilization of their storage assets. Using OST-enabled devices BE administrators can better leverage the features inherent in the storage devices such as replication and data deduplication. Upon successful certification, the storage device is listed in the Symantec Backup Exec Hardware Compatibility List.

Take a step

Join STEP to gain access to these Technology Tracks and begin taking advantage of the many benefits available to test, integrate and certify your solution with Symantec’s data protection and archiving product portfolio and tap into new market opportunities.

Storage Foundation™
FileStore
Cluster Server

Storage Foundation™ Technology Track

Technology Track participants integrate their primary storage devices with Symantec’s Veritas Dynamic Multi-Pathing (DMP) and Thin Provision Discovery and Reclamation (TP-R) technologies, features of Veritas Storage Foundation. Upon certification, Veritas DMP can successfully configure itself to the connected storage and provide visibility into vendor specific attributes, thereby maximizing availability and performance, and TP-R can successfully discover and reclaim free space on thinly provisioned storage, providing optimal storage utilization. Certified devices are listed in the Symantec Storage Foundation Hardware Compatibility List.

FileStore Technology Track

Technology Track participants can certify their primary storage devices for use with Symantec FileStore. Similar to the Symantec Storage Foundation Technology Track described above, storage devices are integrated with Symantec’s Dynamic Multi-Pathing (DMP) technology, and certified devices are included in the Symantec FileStore Hardware Compatibility List.

Cluster Server Technology Track

Integrating an application with Veritas Cluster Server provides high availability failover through the use of an application-specific agent. The agent enables Veritas Cluster Server to monitor an application and restart it automatically should any fault occur. Once certified, agents are made available through the Symantec Operations Readiness Tool.

Take a step

Join STEP to gain access to these Technology Tracks and begin taking advantage of the many benefits available to test, integrate and certify your solution with Symantec’s storage and availability product portfolio and tap into new market opportunities.