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Symantec Enterprise Solution Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
Symantec Enterprise Agreement Program Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Symantec Enterprise Solution Benefits . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
Protect Endpoints—First Layer of Defense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
Protect Mail Systems—Second Layer of Defense . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
Protect Gateways—Third Layer of Defense. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
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Symantec Enterprise Solution Overview
Symantec Enterprise Solution provides multiple layers of protection to help you accurately identify and address risks, while delivering strong
data protection for endpoints, including mobile and mail/web infrastructure.
Protect Endpoints—First Layer of Defense
Starting at the endpoint, Symantec Enterprise Solution protects against malware and data loss with endpoint security, drive encryption, and
system recovery. For mobile endpoints, Symantec App Center Basic provides an easy-to-use mobile device, application, and content
management solution to secure all corporate data on mobile devices. Finally our endpoint management solution provides vulnerability
assessment and simplifies patching of hundreds of endpoint applications.
Protect Mail Systems—Second Layer of Defense
The next layer of protection is at the mail servers, where most confidential data typically resides, whether it’s documents, plans, contracts, or
financial and customer data. With Symantec Mail Security, you can secure this information hub by stopping “reply all” storms, blocking spam,
and preventing the spread of malware threats throughout your network.
Protect Gateways—Third Layer of Defense
At the network perimeter or gateway layer, the Symantec Enterprise Solution features products to provide data loss prevention and content
filtering technologies for mail and web traffic. These products also help meet policy and regulatory compliance by automatically regulating
the flow of sensitive information.
Supporting Symantec Enterprise Solution’s layers of protection is the Symantec Global Intelligence Network, one of the world's largest
security research infrastructures, providing security intelligence to Symantec products and making it easy for you to automatically protect
your environment and adapt to risks within minutes.
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Symantec Enterprise Agreement Program Overview
Symantec™ Enterprise Solution is available as part of the Symantec Enterprise Subscription Agreement contract. With the Symantec
Enterprise Subscription Agreement contract, you can optimize your security spend to fit your IT and business needs, streamline software
compliance, and improve asset management for your security purchases. The Symantec Enterprise Subscription Agreement contract is a
three-year licensing agreement for organizations with 250+ users that allows you to standardize on security solutions. You get attractive
volume subscription pricing and simplified licensing management covering your entire organization from one trusted security vendor.
Symantec Enterprise Solution protects against malware and data loss with endpoint security, drive encryption, and system recovery, while
endpoint management enables patching of applications. Predictable subscription pricing and centralized control of your Windows®,
Mac® OS X, and Linux environments help reduce ongoing costs.
Symantec Enterprise Solution Benefits
The Symantec Enterprise Solution bundle offers an unparalleled combination of award-winning technologies from a world leader in security
and data protection. It enables you to comprehensively protect, intelligently manage, and automatically control the assets and data most
crucial to your business—while helping to reduce upfront and ongoing costs with subscription pricing.
The Symantec Enterprise Solution bundle provides the fastest1, most effective
2endpoint protection for the explosive growth of advanced
persistent threats. It is designed to protect organizations of all sizes and complexity, including distributed organizations, with heterogeneous
hardware and software requirements.
• Unrivaled endpoint security—Powered by Symantec Insight™, Symantec Endpoint Protection detects new threats on endpoints and at
the perimeter, earlier and more accurately than signature or behavioral-based solutions alone.
• Mobile device protection— Symantec App Center Basic provides a unified platform to enable user productivity on mobile devices,
regardless of the ownership (enabling bring your own device—BYOD), while protecting enterprise data.
• Multi-platform encryption coverage—Symantec Drive Encryption encrypts data across PC, Mac, and Linux laptops and desktops.
• Rapid system recovery—Symantec System Recovery quickly and easily restores physical and virtual desktops in minutes to dissimilar
hardware in both remote and virtual environments.
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2-Highest overall score, fastest browse-time, lightest in CPU usage during system idle. PassMark Software, "Enterprise Endpoint Security Performance Benchmarks, Windows 7”, Edition 2, August 2012.AV-TEST, Product Review, Corporate Solutions for Windows 7, July/August 2013.
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Address your data protection and compliance needs with the Symantec Enterprise Solution bundle. Layer mobile, endpoint, server, mail,
and web solutions for better protection, and virtually eliminate IT complexity by standardizing software across the organization.
• Perimeter gateway protection —Apply multiple layers of security against malware and protect devices from messaging and web-based
threats. Bi-directional scanning protects against inbound threats, blocking more than 99 percent of spam and preventing malware from
transmitting out of the network. Content filtering and data loss prevention technologies make it easier to protect and control sensitive
data.
• Regulation of sensitive information—Identify and control the flow of sensitive information via email and IM, as well as onto and off of
endpoints and mobile devices. Powerful business-level reporting and advanced analytics drive more accurate decisions.
• Meeting compliance requirements—Encrypt sensitive data at the endpoint to meet privacy laws and governmental compliance
requirements.
The Symantec Enterprise Solution allows you to take advantage of single-vendor simplicity and measurable savings. Avoid the complexity
of multivendor solutions as you save in subscription pricing, while proactively securing your IT infrastructure to deliver real business results.
• Effortlessly update—If you already have Symantec solutions deployed, we make it easy to switch to the Enterprise Agreement program
by grandfathering your products with our true-up program.
• Eliminate complexity—Deploy essential mobile, endpoint, encryption, messaging, and web security technologies from a single vendor to
simplify troubleshooting, application management, policy enforcement, and reporting.
• Increase cost-efficiency—Solve crucial security and endpoint management challenges across your network, while saving significantly
over the purchase of individual point products. You can save procurement, implementation, and operational costs when you purchase the
Symantec Enterprise Solution bundle through the Symantec Enterprise Agreement program.
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Protect Endpoints—First Layer of Defense
Ensuring business continuity while protecting users, data, and devices is at the core of your IT team's mission. Whether you’re defending
against external malware or dealing with malicious insiders, the goal is the same: to protect your data wherever it resides. Symantec’s
Enterprise Solution offers a number of key products in the first line of defense at the endpoint.
Symantec Endpoint Protection
Symantec Endpoint Protection 12.1 provides unrivaled security and blazing performance for both physical and virtual environments. It
integrates 10 essential security technologies in a single, high-performance agent, with a single management console, to provide the most
advanced malware protection available.
Key Features
• Advanced policy-based protection and application and device control
• Symantec Insight eliminates and deduplicates up to 70 percent of scan overhead
• vShield integration and optimization for data-rich virtual environments
Key Benefits
• Smarter management with more flexibility and visibility across Windows, Mac, and Linux machines
• Security confidence with advanced protection against known and unknown threats
• Maximized productivity through faster endpoints and fewer IT tickets
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Symantec Drive Encryption
Symantec Drive Encryption is an easily deployed full-disk encryption solution for organizations of all sizes, protecting data on laptops and
desktops from loss or theft. Based on PGP’s strong encryption technology, Symantec Drive Encryption fulfills most data privacy requirements
in case a system goes missing, ensuring your organization's data—and your customer’s data—are safe.
Key Features
• Multiplatform support for Windows, Mac, and Linux operating systems
• A user-friendly initial encryption process that allows end users to continue working
• Multiple recovery options to meet the needs of your organization
Key Benefits
• Central management from Symantec Encryption Management Server
• Single sign-on and two-factor authentication capabilities
• Zero end-user interference
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Symantec System Recovery 2013
Symantec System Recovery 2013 delivers superior backup and disaster recovery for desktops and laptops, enabling businesses to recover
from downtime or disasters in minutes. With patented Restore Anyware™ technology, IT administrators or users can rapidly restore exactly
what they need, when and where they need it—including entire machines to the same or dissimilar hardware, as well as files, folders, and
granular application objects.
Key Features
• Restore desktops and laptops from local or off-site destinations in minutes, even to bare metal or dissimilar hardware
• Recover files, folders, and granular objects in seconds
• Back up to almost any disk storage device, including USB, FireWire®, NAS, SAN, and Blu-ray
Key Benefits
• Dramatically minimize downtime and avoid disruption and employee productivity losses
• Replace time-consuming, manual, and error-prone desktop/laptop recovery processes with fast, reliable, automated system recovery
• Recover what you need, when and where you need it—including individual files, folders, or complete systems—in minutes
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Symantec App Center Basic
Symantec App Center Basic provides the tools enterprise IT teams need to deploy and manage both native and Web apps on corporate-owned
and employee-liable devices. App Center Basic allows administrators to implement enterprise security and manage policies through the
distribution of apps—without source code changes or SDK integration—to provide granular app-level controls. App Center also offers
advanced app protection capabilities to enable mobile user productivity without compromising user experience or data security.
Key Features
• Self-service distribution of apps to users with role-based corporate security and data protection
• Authentication for the App Center portal and wrapped apps, with integrated single sign-on functionality across wrapped apps
• Ability to distribute content to end-user mobile devices and apply file-level security policies
Key Benefits
• A simple, intuitive user experience that is similar to the native experience of popular mobile platforms
• Secure distribution/revocation of apps, data, and content files to authorized users
• Easy prevention of data loss and information protection on managed/unmanaged smartphones and tablets
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Symantec Client Management Suite
Symantec Client Management Suite manages, secures, and troubleshoots systems with greater efficiency on more platforms, including
Windows, Mac, Linux, and virtual desktop environments. The suite automates time-consuming and redundant tasks to minimize efforts and
costs associated with deploying, patching, and supporting client systems and software.
Key Features
• Heterogeneous PC lifecycle management across Windows, Mac, Linux, and virtual desktops
• Accurate identification and inventory of authorized and unauthorized devices helps forecast hardware and software needs
• Comprehensive software management simplifies ongoing software maintenance by combining software packaging, delivery, application
virtualization, and patch management
• Integrated troubleshooting tools, such as remote control and out-of-band management, reduce the time and cost associated with help
desk activities
Key Benefits
• Implement a single management framework for distributed, heterogeneous client environments
• Manage change with confidence by driving predictable and repeatable day-to-day operations
• Make smarter, faster decisions based on real-time, data-driven conclusions
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Protect Mail Systems—Second Layer of Defense
The next layer of protection is at the mail servers, where most of your confidential data typically resides, whether it’s documents, plans,
contracts, or financial and customer data. Secure this information hub and make sure your business continues to run smoothly with
Symantec Mail Security, and stop “reply all” storms, block spam, and prevent the spread of malware threats throughout your network.
Symantec Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange
Symantec Mail Security for Microsoft® Exchange combines Symantec anti-malware technology with advanced heuristics to provide real-time
email protection against viruses, spyware, phishing, and other malicious attacks, while enforcing content filtering policies on Microsoft
Exchange Server 2007, 2010, and 2013. In addition, Mail Security leverages Symantec Premium AntiSpam, powered by Brightmail
technology, to stop 99 percent of incoming spam with less than one in one-million false positives.
Key Features
• Ability to scan messages in transit or in the mailbox to protect against email borne threats
• Advanced content filtering protects sensitive information, Microsoft Active Directory®-based enforcement simplifies policy management
• Supports Microsoft Hyper-V, or VMware® virtualized Exchange server environments
Key Benefits
• Immediate protection with rapid-release definitions and advanced heuristic technologies
• Ability to complete initial setup of Microsoft email security software within 10 minutes, with no requirements for tuning
• Flexible real-time, scheduled, and manual scanning provide efficient protection
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Symantec Mail Security for Domino
Symantec Mail Security for Domino® Multi-Platform Edition provides high-performance, integrated mail protection against malware, spam,
and other unwanted content for Domino servers. With award-winning malware protection, multi-layered spam prevention features, and
flexible policy enforcement, Mail Security for Domino provides comprehensive mail security with minimal administrative overhead.
Key Features
• Designed as an integrated Lotus Domino application and optimized for high performance, including native 64-bit support on Windows and
in AIX environments
• Graphical reporting enables administrators to efficiently identify threats and monitor the overall status of Symantec Mail Security
operations
• Flexible user- and group-based content filtering to automatically identify, classify, or remove messages that violate corporate policy
Key Benefits
• Stops 99 percent of incoming spam with fewer than one in one-million false positives with the Symantec Premium AntiSpam add-on
• Provides immediate protection with rapid-release definitions and advanced heuristic technologies
• Avoids repeated scans of previously scanned documents with secure scanning optimization
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Protect Gateways—Third Layer of Defense
The final layer of defense for protecting your users, devices, and data is provided at the messaging and web gateways at the perimeter of your
network. By scanning traffic bi-directionally, inbound and outbound, you can ensure that confidential information stays in the network and
malware and unwanted mail (spam) stays outside the network. Symantec Web Gateway and Messaging Gateway virtual appliances protect
users’ privacy, confidential data, and all devices (unpatched, unmanaged, or unknown) connected to the internal network.
Symantec Web Gateway
Symantec Web Gateway protects organizations against web threats, including malware, botnets, viruses, and targeted attacks and also
provides controls over web and application use. Powered by Symantec Insight technology, Symantec Web Gateway integrates best-of breed
technologies in a single box, enabling businesses to identify new threats before they cause disruption within the organization.
Key Features
• Layered protection against known and emerging threats
• Accurate detection of botnet activity
• Integrated intelligence from Symantec Global Intelligence Network
Key Benefits
• Enhance security with file and location reputation, updated in real-time
• Reduce risk of data loss or theft with quick and accurate detection and remediation of infected endpoints
• Enable BYOD projects with security for unmanaged devices on the network
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Symantec Messaging Gateway
Symantec Messaging Gateway enables organizations to secure their email and productivity infrastructure with effective and accurate real-
time anti-spam and anti-malware protection, targeted-attack protection, advanced content filtering, data loss prevention technologies, and
optional email encryption. Messaging Gateway is simple to administer and catches more than 99 percent of spam with less than one in one-
million false positives.
Key Features
• Disarm, a proprietary Symantec technology, helps protect against targeted attacks and zero-day malware by removing exploitable content
from Microsoft Office and PDF attachments
• Anti-spam filtering engine, powered by Brightmail, delivers a set of technologies that identify email-borne threats based on reputation on
both the global and local levels
• Strong data loss prevention capabilities ensure customers stay in regulatory compliance
Key Benefits
• Protects sensitive client data and valuable confidential information, with the ability to fingerprint and identify actual company data within
messages or attachments
• Reduces administrative costs by removing the complexity of multiple consoles, disparate policies, and incompatible logging and reporting,
while demonstrating efficacy and impact of messaging security
• Flexible, configurable, easy-to-use Messaging Gateway Virtual Edition runs on VMware or Microsoft Hyper-V hypervisors in the hardware
environment of the customer’s choosing
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Symantec Enterprise Solution Component Products
The Symantec Enterprise Solution bundle includes licenses for the products below:
• Symantec Endpoint Protection
• Symantec System Recovery Desktop Edition
• Symantec Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange
• Symantec Mail Security for Domino
• Symantec Messaging Gateway
• Symantec Web Gateway
• Symantec Drive Encryption
• Symantec Altiris Client Management Suite
• Symantec App Center (Basic Edition)
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