Symantec Critical System Protection
| Symantec Critical System Protection allows organizations to monitor and protect physical and virtual data centers using granular, policy-based controls. Through a combination of host-based intrusion detection, intrusion prevention, and least privilege access control for devices, applications and systems, it allows organizations to proactively safeguard heterogeneous server environments and the information they contain. | Trialware Purchasing Data Sheet (PDF) |
Key Features
- File Integrity Monitoring: Identify changes to files in real-time, including who made the change and what changed within the file.
- Configuration Monitoring: Identify policy violations, suspicious administrators or intruder activity in real-time.
- Targeted Prevention Policy: Respond to server incursion or compromise immediately with quickly customizable hardening policies.
- Granular Intrusion Prevention Policies: Protect against zero day threats and restrict the behavior of approved applications even after they are allowed to run with least privilege access controls.
- File, system and admin lock down: Harden virtual and physical servers to maximize system uptime and avoid ongoing support costs for legacy operating systems.
- Broad Physical Platform Support: Monitor and protect Windows and non-Windows based platforms including Solaris, Linux, AIX, HP-UX; additionally leverage Virtual Agents for unsupported/less common platforms.
- Virtualization Platform Support: Monitor and harden VMware environments across Windows and non-Windows based guests, ESX/ESXi hypervisors and vCenter management servers.
- Centralized Management: Simplify administration of heterogeneous systems with real-time visibility into events and graphical reporting capabilities.
- Integration with IT GRC and SIEM Solutions: Supported integration with Symantec Control Compliance Suite for unified assessment and monitoring of infrastructure and information, as well as with Symantec Security Information Manager for advanced incident correlation and management.
Key Benefits
- Identify and respond to data center breaches in real-time using targeted prevention policies.
- Demonstrate compliance with real-time file integrity monitoring and compensating controls.
- Reduce costs by enabling patch mitigation and leveraging a single solution for host intrusion detection and prevention.
- Improve your security posture by performing real-time configuration monitoring and restricting administrative controls.
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