Symantec Protection Engine for Cloud Services
Enhanced performance and scalability.

Overview:

Protect applications, services, and storage with fast, scalable threat detection and content control.

Symantec Protection Engine for Cloud Services 7.0 is a flexible and feature rich client/server application that allows customers to incorporate malware and threat detection technologies into almost any application. Protection Engine includes Symantec's proprietary, patented URL categorization technology and industry-leading malware protection for fast, scalable, and reliable content scanning services. These services help organizations protect their data and storage systems against the ever-growing malware threat landscape.

Alongside the native ICAP protocol support, Protection Engine provides a full client Software Development Kit (SDK) enabling customers to embed fully-fledged malware protection in business critical applications, services, and devices.

Platform support spanning Linux, Windows, and Solaris ensures that customers can take advantage of the market leading malware detection wherever they need it.

What's New in Protection Engine for Cloud Services 7.0

• The next generation malware detection engine enables Protection Engine to detect unknown, recent, and new threats through dynamic categorization and advanced heuristics.
• Enhanced performance and scalability.
• Provides flexible and powerful control over files that cannot be accurately scanned. For example, encrypted files or malformed containers.
• Integration with Microsoft Active Directory for single-sign on.

New Features

• The next generation malware detection engine enables Protection Engine to detect unknown, recent, and new threats through dynamic categorization and advanced heuristics.
• Enhanced performance and scalability.
• Provides flexible and powerful control over files that cannot be accurately scanned. For example, encrypted files or malformed containers.
• Integration with Microsoft Active Directory for authentication with Protection Engine console.

Key Features

• Detect known and unknown malware.
• Provides central quarantine to control access to detected malware or files that cannot be identified or scanned.
• Management UI provides scan statistics, system information, policy control, and user management.
• URL categorization technology powered by Symantec RuleSpace.

Key Benefits

• Simple integration with almost any third-party application.
• Embeddable, industry-leading malware detection technologies.
• Integrate rich URL categorization and filtering.
• Protect applications and storage from hosting and distributing malware.