Symantec Announces New Versions Of Endpoint Protection

Symantec Corp. has announced new versions of Symantec Endpoint Protection and Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition (currently in beta). Powered by Insight, Symantec’s cloud-based reputation technology, Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 is designed to detect and block sophisticated new threats.

Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 blocks new and unknown threats missed by traditional signature, heuristic, behavioural and HIPS-based security solutions. All of the product’s security engines are now reputation-enabled, leveraging Insight’s online reputation database to identify and block malware attacks. In addition, SONAR 3, the hybrid behavioural-reputation engine, blocks zero-day and highly targeted threats based on their joint behaviour-reputation profile.

Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 leverages cloud-based community intelligence to reduce the overhead of virus scanning by using Symantec Insight to automatically identify and whitelist trusted high-reputation files. The new, Insight-driven compatible scan engine is also designed to do most of its work while computers are idle. It offers comprehensive defence against all types of attacks and is optimised for performance on virtual systems. Symantec is also working closely with VMware to take advantage of virtualisation awareness and introspection capabilities based on VMware vShield technology.

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The Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition offers enterprise-class threat detection technologies and performance improvements with simple to use features such as an installation wizard, pre-configured policy settings and automated notifications and reports for small business customers.

“Cyber attacks are increasing in size, scope and sophistication and companies of all sizes are at risk. Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 leverages our award-winning Insight technology to give our customers —from small businesses to large enterprises—the strongest protection and fastest performance available,” said Ajay Goel, Managing Director, India and SAARC, Symantec.

“As virtualisation plays an increasingly critical role in the enterprise, we see a growing need for security solutions designed to secure the virtual infrastructure. We are collaborating closely with Symantec so that VMware vShield Endpoint technology and Symantec Endpoint Protection will work together seamlessly, further ensuring that our customers have the security solutions they need for running business-critical applications on the VMware vSphere platform,” said Parag Patel, Vice President, Global Strategic Alliances, VMware.