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Symantec Protection Center

Next Generation of Symantec’s Security Management solution.

  • Gain better intelligence.
  • Prioritize based on business context.
  • Drive coordinated action.
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Symantec Protection Center

Symantec Protection Center
The next generation of Symantec's security management solution for IT security leaders.
Protection Center provides the following key benefits:
  • A single pane of glass for a complete view of your security program.
  • A business-centric view of IT risk to better prioritize security tasks.
  • An Apple iPad app to clearly communicate security status, anytime and anywhere.
  • Pre-built connectors and metrics for rapid deployment.
The foundation of this solution is Symantec Protection Center Enterprise, a powerful data collection and analytics platform. Symantec Protection Center Enterprise brings data together from your existing Symantec and 3rd party security solutions, and provides roles-based views and workflows for the different stakeholders across the enterprise security team.
Symantec Protection Center Mobile is an innovative Apple iPad app that puts security insights at the fingertips of IT security executives. Symantec Protection Center Mobile provides oversight of the IT security program, displaying key IT security metrics and business risk scores, enabling security executives to clearly communicate security status in business terms, anytime and anywhere.
For information about Symantec Protection Center versions 2.0 and 2.1 for centralized security administration, please visit: Symantec Protection Center 2.1

Benefits

Symantec Protection Center provides the following key benefits:
  • Better intelligence for more proactive security: Symantec Protection Center collects data from across your IT environment, performs advanced correlation and analysis, and also integrates the latest threat intelligence from Symantec DeepSight, making your IT security program more proactive.
  • Prioritize based on business relevant information: Symantec Protection Center transforms technical data into business relevant information by mapping risk scores and security metrics to the key business assets in your organization, allowing you to prioritize security tasks based on business context.
  • Coordinated action accelerates time to protection: Symantec Protection Center provides role-based views and workflows, enabling the extended IT security team to accelerate time to protection by taking coordinated actions to address key security issues.

Symantec Protection Center Mobile

Business Risk View: View risk score for overall organization as well as risk scores for individual business areas. View trends and progress towards key risk targets.
Security Metrics View: View key security metrics for the overall organization as well as for individual business areas. A library of pre-defined security metrics are available in the following categories:
  • Infrastructure and Systems Security
  • Information Protection
  • Endpoint Security
Threats View: View up-to-date information about the threats that could affect your organization, with the option of integrating Symantec DeepSight Security Intelligence.
Incidents View: View real-time information about the key security incidents impacting your organization along with the affected business assets.

Symantec Protection Center Enterprise

Business Asset System: Allows you to map devices and technologies to business groups and processes, enabling you to get a business-centric view of risk scores and security metrics.
Data Aggregation & Analytics Engine: A unique and highly scalable data framework allows you to collect, normalize and analyze data from multiple sources.
Security Metrics Library: Provides library of key security metrics grouped according to the commonly deployed security controls.
External Data Integration (EDI): Pre-built connectors allow you to integrate data from a wide range of Symantec and 3rd party security solutions. You can easily create your own custom connectors via the EDI interface.
Role-specific dashboard and reports: A web portal provides a common presentation layer for this platform. Whether you are accessing the data on premise or via the iPad application, you can generate role-specific dashboards and reports.
Integrated Workflow: Workflow integration allows you to automate certain business processes such as remediation and risk acceptance.

Connectors

Symantec Protection Center Enterprise provides a flexible platform and includes pre-built connectors for quickly integrating data from a wide range of Symantec and 3rd party security solutions, allowing you to better leverage and demonstrate value from your existing security investments. You could also write your own custom connectors with the SPC Enterprise platform.
Protection Center Enterprise integrates the following market-leading Symantec and third party solutions via connectors*:
Symantec Solutions
Endpoint Protection Managed Security Services+
Data Loss Prevention Critical System Protection+
CCS Standards Manager Mail Security for Exchange+
CCS Vulnerability Manager Messaging Gateway+
DeepSight (Security Risk, SCAP Vulnerability DataFeed) Web Gateway+
Security Information Manager
Third Party Solutions
Qualys
Rapid7
Asset Databases (CMDB)
Technology partners interested in integrating their solution with Symantec Protection Center are invited to join Symantec Technology Enabled Program (STEP).
* The Symantec Protection Center connector list will be updated as more connectors are added.
+ Expected to be available in the second half of 2013.
DISCLAIMER: Any information regarding pre-release Symantec offerings, future updates or other planned modifications is subject to ongoing evaluation by Symantec and therefore subject to change. This information is provided without warranty of any kind, express or implied. Customers who purchase Symantec offerings should make their purchase decision based upon features that are currently available.

System Requirements

Hardware Requirements Operating System Software Requirements
Minimum memory: 8 GB Windows Server 2008 R2 x64 Enterprise edition Internet Information Services (IIS) 7.5
Minimum processor: 2.13 GHz; 8 logical processors (SP1 is supported) Microsoft SQL server 2008 R2 Enterprise (x64)
Minimum hard disk space: 100 GB Microsoft SQL server 2012 Enterprise (x64)
Service pack 1 & Service pack 2 are also supported on Microsoft SQL server 2008 R2 Enterprise (x64)
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Hardware Configurations for SPC Enterprise on-premise components for small-scale deployment (up to 10,000 assets)
SPC Component Memory Processor Disk Space
Server hosting SPC Enterprise on-premise 8 GB Quad proc, quad core (16 logical processors); 3GHz 200 GB
Server hosting SPC Database 16 GB Quad proc, quad core (16 logical processors); 3GHz 1 TB
Hardware Configurations for SPC Enterprise on-premise components for large-scale deployment (10,000 to 60,000 assets)
SPC Component Memory Processor Disk Space
Server hosting SPC Enterprise on-premise 16 GB Quad proc, quad core (16 logical processors); 3GHz 200 GB
Server hosting SPC Database 32 GB Quad proc, quad core (16 logical processors); 3GHz 2 TB

Licensing

Symantec Protection Center Enterprise is licensed based on the assets plugged into the platform using per managed device as the licensing meter. A base license purchase is mandatory before additional device license purchases. In addition, customers who purchase Symantec Protection Center Enterprise or CCS Risk Manager 11.0 will be given free access to Symantec Protection Center Mobile.

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