Alert Services

Symantec DeepSight Alert Services provides personalized vulnerability, malicious code, spyware, and adware alerts, mitigation information, and links to patches to bridge the gap between security awareness and action. Symantec security experts monitor potential threats across more than 45,000 distinct product versions and deliver authoritative information on security vulnerabilities, exploits, and updates based on the exact configuration of your enterprise environment. The set-up wizard allows you to configure the service within minutes and quickly receive alerts with actionable information to support proactive mitigation.

Reliable, credible security vulnerability warnings

Leveraging the world's largest vulnerability database, Symantec DeepSight Alert Services provides a comprehensive view of hardware and software vulnerabilities, with mitigation recommendations for known and emerging security vulnerabilities.

The services are powered by the Symantec Global Intelligence Network, a unique network consisting of millions of sensors around the globe. The network tracks comprehensive security data sources and provides expert research and analysis, resulting in the reliable delivery of alerts and recommendations for action against security threats impacting your infrastructure. The detailed analyses and risk mitigation recommendations cover vulnerability notifications for a broad spectrum of hardware and software platforms, and include adware, spyware, and malicious code alerts.

Timely threat notification, mitigation guidance

Symantec DeepSight Alert Services is a single source for vulnerability information, mitigation guidance, impact analysis, and links to security patches. The service's automated and customizable delivery options result in rapid notification of security threats. Organizations benefit from reduced time required to track and respond to security risks, helping to improve protection across the infrastructure.

Symantec DeepSight Alert Services allows organizations to customize delivery options by threat severity, content type, and notification mechanism, including email, SMS, and voice. You can also specify alert recipients to ensure that the right people receive the right information in order to act quickly. Reporting and database query capabilities allow you to rapidly analyze security vulnerability information and determine an effective remediation plan.

Security staff efficiency and productivity

The notifications provided by Symantec DeepSight Alert Services are tailored to your organization's specific needs, based on your company's unique IT infrastructure and characteristics. The service provides timely access to consolidated vulnerability and malicious code information to ease the burden of security data collection and analysis and free staff to concentrate on core competencies or other security concerns.

Leveraging Symantec’s expertise as the leader in information security, Symantec DeepSight Alert Services support rapid and effective action during security events. The services provide vulnerability information and mitigation recommendations, including links to software patches. And the setup wizard provides simple, rapid guidance to help tailor Symantec DeepSight Alert Services for immediate benefits—from start to fully configured in minutes.