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Symantec Introduces Endpoint Security for the Cloud Generation; First in the Industry to Deliver Deception, Mobile Threat Defense and EDR in a Single Endpoint Security Agent Architecture
Symantec (News - Alert), the world's leading cyber security company, announced the most
advanced and fully-featured endpoint solution available today, bringing
together deception technology, Mobile Threat Defense, Endpoint Detection
and Response (EDR), Hardening and intensive protection through advanced
machine learning. Built on the company's market-leading Symantec
Endpoint Protection (SEP) platform, it is the first solution to deliver
these capabilities in a single agent, meeting the challenges of the Cloud
Generation by helping to simplify and optimize their environments,
lower costs, and improve security.
As the business landscape evolves with the adoption of cloud computing
and mobile technology, enterprises are working harder to protect
employees across a diverse set of devices, while at the same time
securing against new cyber threats. Symantec's effective defense against
attacks such as WannaCry and Petya has reaffirmed the need for a
platform-centric approach that brings innovative security solutions
across all devices, networks and applications to combat escalating
threats. These challenges have become more difficult alongside a
shortage in skilled cyber security personnel and the emergence of
complex point-solutions aimed at solving singular security issues.
Symantec uniquely provides comprehensive endpoint capabilities in a
single agent, allowing CISOs and IT teams to monitor, manage and contain
threats while reducing operational complexity. And through its
integration framework, additional partner solutions can be integrated
with Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) and managed within Symantec's
single agent.
"Our new endpoint solution is exactly what our customers have been
asking for - best of breed capabilities, integrated into a single agent,
to help them streamline, lower costs and effectively combat advanced
threats, malware and ransomware," said Mike Fey, Symantec president and
COO. "More importantly, these technologies are not simply integrated --
they lead going toe-to-toe against their standalone counterparts in the
industry. We call it Endpoint Security for the Cloud Generation and we
are very proud to offer this level of advancement to our customers,
completing another important milestone in our endpoint security
strategy."
Endpoint Security for the Cloud Generation takes a comprehensive,
platform-based approach to the modern threat environment, delivering
unique innovations advancing the cause of endpoint security. Symantec
Endpoint Protection is enhanced with several new innovative
capabilities, including:
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Deception at Scale - Symantec turns the tables on attackers by
bringing deception capabilities to endpoint protection. Deception
technology deceives attackers into believing they have successfully
breached an organization, when in reality, attackers are shunted to a
false environment, served up fake assets and information - essentially
leading them on a "wild goose chase" - while the security team works
to neutralize the attack. Delivered as part of SEP 14.1, Symantec is
the first to bring built-in deception techniques to the endpoint
protection market. As the market leader, deception can now be deployed
at massive scale across Symantec's 175 million endpoints globally.
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Mobile Threat Defense through SEP Mobile - Symantec announces
worldwide availability of SEP Mobile, just 90 days after the close of
the Skycure
acquisition, bringing best-in-class protection for mobile
endpoints to customers and partners. SEP Mobile delivers
comprehensive, roven and effective mobile threat defense, helping
organizations protect both BYOD and corporate-owned devices, across
modern mobile operating systems, including iOS and Android (News - Alert).
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Endpoint Detection and Response - Symantec announces Advanced
Threat Protection 3.0 with major EDR enhancements integrated with SEP
14. In addition, Symantec expands this protection through Symantec
Endpoint Detection and Response Cloud, a cloud-based service that can
be deployed in minutes and helps to strengthen a firm's security
posture against cyber attacks. Symantec EDR Cloud enhances
investigator productivity with pre-built incident response playbooks
that bring the skills and best practices of experienced security
analysts to any organization while lowering costs.
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Signatureless Protection - SEP 14.1 applies advanced machine
learning techniques and behavioral analysis to enable intensive
protection that can be optimized for customer environments. SEP 14
proactively blocked more than one billion WannaCry infection attempts
across endpoints globally with the help of this technology.
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Symantec Endpoint Protection with Hardening - SEP Hardening
prevents vulnerability exploits including zero-day attacks and
mitigates damage from attacks by shielding and isolating suspicious
and malicious activity targeted toward commonly used applications.
Additional Resources:
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Analyst Quote: "Streamlining security protection has
become increasingly critical for organizations. Sprawling point
solutions create complexity, raise costs and are difficult to manage,
while at the same time leave gaps that can be exploited. Symantec has
brought together comprehensive endpoint capabilities, delivered
through a single agent, allowing CISOs and IT to monitor, manage and
act from one central location," Sean Pike, program vice president for
IDC's (News - Alert) Security Products group.
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Customer Quotes:
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"After The
Economist launched Symantec Endpoint Protection 14, we
realized a 60 percent drop in malware events," said Vicki Gavin,
compliance director, head of business continuity, cyber security,
and data privacy at The Economist. "Malware makes up two-thirds of
the events we deal with. With SEP 14, we spend 80 percent less
time dealing with malware events, translating into more time to
focus on high-value projects."
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"The flexibility and access-anywhere capabilities of mobile are
crucial for our employees, but these cloud generation endpoints
bring with them a whole host of threats that can turn into major
risks in financial services," said Brian Jacome, director,
Applications and Operations at Royal Bank of Canada. "We feel SEP
Mobile provides an effective and business-friendly approach that
within hours of deploying, was able to identify a threat that
would have previously gone undetected. Now we routinely catch
threats before they can even become a problem."
Products included in Endpoint for the Cloud Generation
About Symantec
Symantec Corporation (NASDAQ: SYMC), the world's leading cyber security
company, helps organizations, governments and people secure their most
important data wherever it lives. Organizations across the world look to
Symantec for strategic, integrated solutions to defend against
sophisticated attacks across endpoints, cloud and infrastructure.
Likewise, a global community of more than 50 million people and families
rely on Symantec's Norton and LifeLock (News - Alert) product suites to protect their
digital lives at home and across their devices. Symantec operates one of
the world's largest civilian cyber intelligence networks, allowing it to
see and protect against the most advanced threats. For additional
information, please visit www.symantec.com or
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