Symantec Protection Engine for Network Attached Storage
Enhanced performance and scalability.

Features & Benefits:

Protection Engine includes Symantec's 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. Malware definitions and engines are updated automatically with no interruption in malware scanning using Symantec LiveUpdate. Definitions can also be distributed centrally to multiple deployments utilizing the included Symantec LiveUpdate Administrator application.

New Features

• he 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 Active Directory for single-sign on.

Key Benefits

• Provides high-performance scanning of files for viruses, malware, spyrware, worms, and Trojan horses.
• Easily integrates with third-party NAS devices via ICAP.
• Delivers statistical and detailed activity reports that can be viewed in HTML or exported to CSV format.
• Delivers consumption reporting to illustrate how resources are being utilized.
• Improved alerts allow event triggers to be sent via email or SNMP alerts when a predetermined number of events occur.
• Central quarantine allows administrators to safely move potential threats to a safe area on a centralized server.
• Improved logging captures and displays more event details.

Advantages of Protection Engine for Network Attached Storage

• Leverages the next generation of Symantec threat detection technology
• Scalable solution with the ability to run multiple Protection Engine for Network Attached Storage servers in parallel and utilize most popular load-balancing solutions
• Support for multiple operating systems and mix mode deployment
• Backed up by the Symantec Security Response organization

System Requirements:

Supported Network Attached Storage (NAS) Devices

Supported NAS platform vendors include:

• BlueArc
• EMC
• Hitachi
• NetApp
• Sun

For the latest information about specific platform validation or certification please contact the storage vendor and/or refer to the information at http://www.symantec.com/docs/TECH147442.

Supported Operating Systems

32-bit OS

• Windows 2008 (English and Japanese)
• Windows Server 2003 R2 (English and Japanese)
• Windows 2003 (English and Japanese)
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11

64-bit OS

• Windows 2012 (English and Japanese)
• Windows 2008 (English and Japanese)
• Windows 2008 R2 (English and Japanese)
• Windows Server 2003 R2 (English and Japanese)
• Windows 2003 (English and Japanese)
• Solaris (SPARC) 10 and 11
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 6.x
• Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x
• SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11

All the supported operating systems (Windows and Linux) are supported under:

• VMware vSphere Hypervisor™ v4.1 or later

Supported Browsers

• Mozilla Firefox 10 or later
• Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 (SP1) or later

Minimum Hardware Configuration

• Intel or AMD Server Grade Single Processor Quad Core systems or higher (Windows or Linux) or UltraSPARC (Solaris)
• Java™ Runtime Environment 6 or 7
• 4 GB random-access memory (RAM)
• 5 GB hard disk space available (10 GB of hard disk space if using URL Filtering)
• 1 NIC with static IP address running TCP/IP
• 100 Mbps Ethernet link (1 Gbps recommended)

Documentation:

Download the Symantec Protection Engine for Network Attached Storage Datasheet (PDF).