Symantec Protection Suite Enterprise Edition
Fastest, most effective security

Features & Benefits:

Multilayer protection from endpoint to gateway

Protect against more threats and secure your environment against data loss, malware, and spam by accurately identifying and addressing risks consistently across different platforms. Only Symantec provides the broad spectrum of core security protections across your endpoint, messaging, and Web infrastructure, while also ensuring endpoints are rapidly recoverable in the event of failure. Multiple layers of protection help ensure you are accurately identifying and addressing risks while delivering consistent protection in both physical and virtual environments.

Fastest, most effective security

Endpoint security and recovery

Protection Suite delivers more than industry-leading antivirus with advanced threat prevention that protects your endpoints—laptops, desktops, and servers— from targeted attacks and attacks not seen before. Proactive technologies automatically analyze application behaviors and network communications to detect and block suspicious activities, including administrative control features that allow you to deny specific devices and applications. Protection Suite extends its system protection to include disk-based system recovery for Microsoft Windows-based desktops and laptops enabling businesses to recover from system loss or disasters in minutes, not hours or days.

• Multi-layer protection from endpoint to gateway — Protect against more threats and secure your environment against data loss, malware, and spam by accurately identifying and addressing risks consistently across different platforms.
• Unrivaled security — Powered by Insight, Protection Suite detects new threats on endpoints and at the perimeter, earlier and more accurately than signature or behavioral-based solutions alone.
• Rapid system recovery — Quickly and easily restore physical and virtual systems in minutes³, even to bare metal, dissimilar hardware, remote locations, or virtual environments.

Layered security and intelligence

Layered messaging and spam protection

Identify emerging threats and accelerate time to protection based on relevant, actionable intelligence. Protection Suite delivers inbound and outbound messaging security, with accurate real-time antispam and antivirus protection, advanced content filtering, and data loss prevention. Protection Suite messaging security components can be deployed on your messaging server and at the gateway (physical or virtual appliance-based).

• Context-aware security management — Correlate data from endpoint, messaging and third-party security products with early warning alerts from the Symantec™ Global Intelligence Network.
• Virtually eliminate spam⁴— Block more than 99 percent of spam with less than 1 in a million false positives.
• VMware vShield integration — The Shared Insight Cache functionality integrates with vShield Endpoint, offloading critical security analysis from protected virtual machines to a dedicated security virtual appliance—optimizing scan performance, resource utilization, and increased management visibility.

3. Symantec System Recovery 2011 Customer interview results
4. August 2012, VBSpam Report http://www.virusbtn.com/vbspam/index

More protection for less

Maximize protection, minimize complexity, and stay under budget

Protection suite is a cost efficient way to deploy security and recovery technologies across your IT infrastructure. Reduce upfront and on-going IT cost by forcing out complexity—Symantic technologies are centrally managed and work seamlessly together. Protection Suite also offers unparalleled Web security to fend off today's complex Web-borne malware threats. Web Gateway detects infected endpoints, monitors inbound and outbound Web traffic for threats, and enables you to safely use today's Web 2.0 applications.

• Cost efficient—Solve crucial security challenges across multiple threat vectors, while saving up to 72 percent⁵ over the purchase of individual point products.
• Eliminate environment complexity—Deploy essential endpoint, messaging, and Web security technologies as unified solutions.
• Streamline processes—Eliminate additional steps and costs with one decision, one purchase, and one vendor for comprehensive protection.

5. Cost calculations based upon MSRP (Express Band A Essential Support) of contributing Symantec solutions (Symantec Endpoint Protection, Symantec Messaging Gateway, Symantec Web Gateway, Symantec System Recovery, Symantec Protection Center, IT Analytics for SEP, and Symantec Workflow)

Key Features and Benefits

Only Protection Suite:

• Meets the broad spectrum of core security needs across your endpoint, messaging, and Web infrastructure, while also ensuring endpoints are rapidly recoverable in the event of failure.
• Delivers visibility across Symantec and third-party security solutions, and connects you with one of the world’s largest commercial cyber-intelligence communities.
• Enables organizations to automate common security processes, and customize responses, based on the unique needs of their enterprise environments.

Fastest endpoint security

Powered by Insight, confidently protects physical and virtual environments

• Patented technology — Insight separates files at risk from those that are safe, for faster and more accurate malware detection, blocking more threats including mutating and zero-day.
• Proactive threat protection — SONAR examines programs as they run, indentifying and stopping malicious behavior even for new and previously unknown threats.
• Auntivirus and antispyware for Windows®, Linux®, and Macintosh® — Provides unmatched malware protection, market-leading antivirus and spyware protection, new rootkit protection, reduced momory footprint, and blazing performance.
• Network threat protection— A rules-based firewall engine and Generic Exploit Blocking (GEB) block malware before it can enter a system.
• Protection for virtual environments— Integration with VMware vShield protects your virtual infrastructure with virtual image exception, resource leveling, shared Insight cache, virtual client tagging to optimize your virtual environment's security posture.

New Features:

• Deeper insights and simplified work processes: Symantec Global Intelligence Network integration provides deeper insight into local and global threat landscape. Prebuilt workflow templates simplify work processes and automation while you can also use the same console to manage Windows and Mac clients.
• Fastest, Most-effective Endpoint Security:
  • Symantec Insight - Separates files at risk from those that are safe, for faster and more accurate malware detection.
  • Real Time SONAR 3 - Examines programs as they run, identifying and stopping malicious behavior even of new and previously unknown threats.
• Built for Virtual Environments: Enhanced features to help protect your virtual infrastructure and automatically identify and manage virtual clients.

Key Features

Fastest, most-effective protection, powered by Symantec Insight, for laptops, desktops, servers, messaging and web gateways--protection beyond antivirus.

Catch more than 99% of spam and prevent data loss with advanced content filtering to identify and control the flow of sensitive data in email and IM.

Web gateway security that protects against web threats, including malicious software, spyware, botnets, viruses, and malware.

Rapid data and system recovery recovers individual files and folders in seconds or complete Windows systems in minutes to dissimilar hardware or virtual environments.

Key Benefits

Multiple layers of protection from the market-leading endpoint security, messaging security, web, data loss prevention, and data and system recovery vendor.

Eliminates environment complexity by deploying integrated essential endpoint and messaging security technologies as unified solutions with coordinated management.

Automatic controls help you achieve, prove, and enforce adherence to IT policy and regulatory objectives with ease.

Simplified implementation & operations by quickly deploying with minimal disruption to your environment through easy management and optimized utilization of system resources.

Centrally manages backup and recovery tasks for multiple desktops/laptops across your entire organization.

Instant threat protection with support from the largest Global Intelligence Network in the world.

Comprehensive virus protection against malicious threats that target Windows, Linux and Macintosh systems.

System Requirments:

Minimum System Requirements

Get up-to-date System Requirements for Protection Suite Enterprise Edition or from www.symantec.com.

• Symantec Endpoint Protection (Windows, Linux, and Macintosh)
• Symantec System Recovery Desktop Edition
• Symantec Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange
• Symantec Mail Security for Domino
• Symantec Messaging Gateway
• Symantec Web Gateway

Add-ons:

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Documentation:

Download the Symantec Protection Suite Enterprise Edition Datasheet (PDF).