Symantec Introduces New Era of Advanced Threat Protection
27 October 2015 - 3:01PM
Business Wire
SymantecTM Advanced Threat Protection helps
companies uncover, prioritize and remediate advanced threats across
their control points – fast
Symantec Corp. (NASDAQ:SYMC), the global leader in cyber
security, today introduced Symantec Advanced Threat Protection
(ATP), the first solution that can detect and remediate advanced
threats across control points, from a single console with just a
click, all with no new endpoint agents to deploy.
Advanced threats, such as ransomware, remote access trojans,
advanced persistent threats (APTs) and zero day attacks, are on the
rise and security professionals can no longer rely on using
individual point products at each control point to stop them. The
process of uncovering threat data across endpoint, network and
email gateways is manual and time-consuming, which gives attackers
an edge. Symantec ATP correlates suspicious activity across all
control points and prioritizes the events that pose the most risk
to an organization. Once a critical threat is identified, it can
now be quickly contained and new instances can be blocked.
Symantec ATP allows customers to:
- Uncover a full range of threats
from APTs to zero day attacks across endpoint, network and email,
with cross-control point detection and environmental search
- Prioritize what matters most by
correlating the threat intelligence from across local control
points with all that Symantec sees globally through its massive
telemetry
- Remediate the threats fast
through containment of endpoints and blocking new instances across
control points, with one click, from a single console
- Leverage existing investments in
Symantec Endpoint Security and Email Security.cloud, without
deploying any new endpoint agents
“Security professionals are constantly on their toes trying to
monitor and prevent the next cyber-attack,” said Michael A. Brown,
president and CEO, Symantec. “We’re moving the industry forward
with Symantec Advanced Threat Protection by giving customers a
complete picture of their entire enterprise from a single console.
Now they can filter out the noise and quickly discover and
remediate an attack.”
Reducing the noise for customers with Symantec ATP happens in a
few ways. First, Symantec’s massive global threat intelligence
combined with local customer data means companies have a more
accurate view of which threats pose the greatest risk inside their
infrastructure. Additionally, Symantec ATP includes Symantec
CynicTM, a new cloud-based sandboxing and payload detonation
service to discover and prioritize today’s most advanced threats.
It also includes SynapseTM, a cross-control point correlation
capability that collects suspicious activity across endpoints,
networks and email to prioritize those that are of greatest risk to
the organization.
“Our new Synapse and Cynic technologies work together to provide
up to 30 percent better detection than existing products out
there1,” said Balaji Yelamanchili, executive vice president and
general manager of Enterprise Security Business, Symantec. “Before,
a security professional would need to manually check to see if a
suspicious file was properly blocked. With our new technologies
built into Symantec ATP, we do the legwork for customers, cutting
down on their search and remediation time.”
“The average enterprise uses 75 distinct security products,”
Yelamanchili added. “That overload creates opportunity for
attackers because it slows down detection. Symantec ATP allows
security professionals to click once and remediate everywhere
across all three control points.”
Symantec ATP enhances existing installations of SymantecTM
Endpoint Protection and Email Security.cloud without requiring any
new endpoint agents. This allows customers to deploy a new
installation of Symantec ATP in under an hour and search for
attacks in minutes. The product can also export its rich
intelligence into third party security incident event managers
(SIEMs). As Symantec ATP evolves, the company plans to open it
up to third party technology partners, including firewall and other
security product vendors, allowing customers to enhance the value
of their existing investments.
Supporting Quotes
- “Securing a large pan-European stock
exchange is high stakes and our IPO in 2014 added an enormous
degree of complexity to securing our data. As the world has seen,
one technical glitch can rock the markets and cause financial,
legal and reputational damage. Euronext turned to market-leader
Symantec to secure its infrastructure and signed on to test an
early version of Symantec’s Advanced Threat Protection. Already
it’s providing greater visibility into what’s happening on
Euronext’s endpoints; and doing it in a simpler, faster more
efficient way. As a result, Euronext has prioritised and reduced
the number of potential security incidents,” said Marc Green, Head
of Threat and Vulnerability Management, Euronext.
- “In reality, going forward, improved
prevention, detection, response and prediction capabilities are all
needed to deal with all types of attacks, ‘advanced’ or not.
Furthermore, these should not be viewed as siloed capabilities;
rather, they should work intelligently together as an integrated,
adaptive system to constitute a complete protection process for
advanced threats.” (Source: Gartner, Designing an Adaptive Security
Architecture for Protection From Advanced Attacks 12 February 2014,
Gartner Foundational 19 November 2014)
- “As enterprises' security estates
become more complex, in response to a dynamic threat landscape,
CISOs demand a platform that integrates and manages their security
operations. Similarly, to address skills shortages, they need a
mechanism that automates as much of their security operations as
possible, and in particular detects and remediates threats
quickly,” said Duncan Brown, Research Director, European Security
Practice, IDC.
- “Our strategic relationship with
Symantec has received a further boost with the addition of the
Symantec Advanced Threat Protection. In this day and age of cyber
threats, we firmly believe that ATP will significantly enhance
customers’ defenses by embedding superior threat detection and
remediation capabilities into their current security portfolio. By
leveraging Wipro’s Enterprise Security Solutions’ expertise and
Symantec’s strong technology prowess, we expect to considerably
improve our customers’ confidence in their Cyber Protection and
Risk Management strategy,” said Sheetal Mehta, VP & Global Head
– Enterprise Security Solutions, Wipro.
- “In today’s dynamic world, enterprises,
more than ever, are challenged by security requirements as the data
resides in public, private and virtual environments. The reality of
the BYOD phenomenon inside enterprises have made data risk
management all the more critical,” said Kalyan Kumar, SVP &
Chief Technologist, HCL Technologies. “In such a scenario, Symantec
Advanced Threat Protection is a state-of–the-art solution that not
only acts as an early warning system but allows customers to take
full advantage of Symantec’s vast amounts of threat intelligence to
help prioritize the incidents that aren’t caught by other point
products across the enterprise IT environment. It’s exactly what
our customers are looking for – a simple way to manage and prevent
the next mega breach.”
Pricing and Availability
Symantec Advanced Threat Protection will be available by end of
calendar year 2015.Starting MSRP is $40 per user annually to secure
one control pointStarting MSRP is $60 per user annually to secure
two control pointsStarting MSRP is $70 per user annually to secure
three control points
About Symantec
Symantec Corporation (NASDAQ:SYMC) is the global leader in
cybersecurity. Operating one of the world’s largest cyber
intelligence networks, we see more threats, and protect more
customers from the next generation of attacks. We help
companies, governments and individuals secure their most important
data wherever it lives.
FORWARD-LOOKING STATEMENTS: Any forward-looking indication of
plans for products is preliminary and all future release dates are
tentative and are subject to change. Any future release of the
product or planned modifications to product capability,
functionality, or feature are subject to ongoing evaluation by
Symantec, and may or may not be implemented and should not be
considered firm commitments by Symantec and should not be relied
upon in making purchasing decisions.
1 Source: Miercom, Symantec Advanced Threat Protection: Network,
April 2015. http://miercom.com/pdf/reports/20150218.pdf
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