Symantec launches CarrierScan for ISPs, ASPs in India
Mumbai -- October 30, 2001 -- Symantec Corporation,
a world leader in Internet Security Technology has launched Carrier Scan
- the bleeding edge Anti Virus solution for ISPs and ASPs in India. Symantec
CarrierScan Server is the industry's first carrier-class virus engine
that integrates high-performance, scalable anti-virus scanning and repair
capabilities into services, such as e-mail, network-based storage, data
caching, and other Web-based file transactions, using Symantec's, award-winning
anti-virus technology.
Symantec CarrierScan Server provides anti-virus scan and repair capabilities
to applications running on an IP network. Applications can simply pass
files for scanning to Carrier Scan Server, which in turn scans the files
for viruses. CarrierScan employs Symantec's anti-virus technologies to
detect malicious viruses, worms, and Trojan horses in all major file types,
including mobile code and compressed file formats.
Virus definitions and engines are updated automatically with no interruption
in virus scanning. The highly scalable product accommodates growing scan
volumes, additional servers, and provides automatic load balancing across
multiple servers.
Commenting on the launch, Joy Ghosh, Country Manger, Symantec, India
said "With a track record of successful implementations at Yahoo!,
Singapore Telecom, Telstra and many others, the stage is set for the product
to be implemented in the Indian ISP and ASP market."
Key Features:
- Scalable, fast, and reliable protection from malicious
virus attacks
- Provides high performance, scalable, and reliable virus
scanning and repair for always-on Internet environments
- Includes client side API for integration with web-based
applications
- Includes all Symantec award-winning anti-virus technologies
- Runs on Sun? Solaris?, Red Hat? Linux?, Microsoft? Windows
NT? and
- Windows? 2000 platforms
About Symantec
Symantec, a world leader in Internet security technology, provides a broad
range of content and network security software and appliance solutions
to individuals, enterprises and service providers. The company is a leading
provider of virus protection, firewall and virtual private network, vulnerability
management, intrusion detection, Internet content and e-mail filtering,
remote management technologies and security services to enterprises and
service providers around the world. Symantec's Norton brand of consumer
security products is a leader in worldwide retail sales and industry awards.
Headquartered in Cupertino, Calif., Symantec has worldwide operations
in 37 countries. For more information, please visit www.symantec.com
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