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IT organizations face growing pressure to secure sophisticated network environments against increasingly complex threats. There are demands to provide greater access to the outside world but with fewer resources. Symantec's Integrated Security products make it easier for today's enterprises to pursue their business goals while feeling confident that their network is secure.
Symantec pioneered the concept of Integrated Security. With products such as Symantec Gateway Security and Symantec Client Security which combine firewall, intrusion detection, anti-virus and other technologies, Symantec set a new standard with protection that is more secure, less expensive and easier to manage than individual, non-integrated products.
Symantec Antivirus Corporate and Enterprise Edition
Symantec AntiVirus Enterprise Edition provides virus protection, content filtering, and spam prevention for the groupware server and gateway, and virus protection for the desktop in a single, easy-to-deploy solution. This comprehensive solution eliminates the complexity and cost of a multi-vendor security solution.
Through the Symantec System Center™ central management console, IT managers can easily deploy antivirus solutions and create, enforce, and update policies to ensure network servers and workstations are properly configured at all times-enterprise-wide and across multiple platforms. The centralized management console also enables administrators to audit the network, identify which nodes are unprotected and vulnerable to virus attack, and determine which nodes are protected by Symantec AntiVirus™ Corporate Edition or other select third-party antivirus products.
With the Digital Immune System™, Symantec AntiVirus automatically scans, detects, and quarantines new viruses, delivering fast, reliable, and hands-free protection. Plus, Symantec's unique, cross-tier NAVEX™ technology maximizes system uptime and minimizes the cost of ownership by providing the ability to update virus definitions and engine extensions without having to re-deploy software or re-boot the system.
Multi-layered antispam protection combines various spam detection technologies, including a heuristics antispam engine, custom filtering rules, and whitelisting techniques, to maximize detections and minimize false positives. The solution also assigns a spam confidence level and delivers spam statistics that provide an overview of trends and the effectiveness of spam prevention.
Symantec's award-winning solution is compatible with a range of workstations, network servers, and mail servers, including Microsoft Windows® 2003, Exchange® 2003, and Domino™ Server 6.5. It also supports Netware® Secure Console and 64-bit Intel® Itanium™ 2 hardware. Like all Symantec products, Symantec AntiVirus Enterprise Edition is supported by Symantec Security Response, the world's leading Internet security research and support organization.
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Network security must protect a business from threats, both known and unknown, such as access breaches, “Day Zero” worm attacks and viruses, and internal threats which cause the most damage. In the 2003 CSI/FBI Computer Crime and Security Survey, theft of proprietary information caused the greatest financial loss (average loss $2.7 million USD). Also in the survey, insider abuse of network access (80 percent) and virus incidents (82 percent) were the most cited forms of attack or abuse.
Moving forward, network security must shift from being perceived as a cost center toward actually saving your company money, through productivity increases, business resiliency, and business operations stability. With these two heavy requirements of providing both higher protection as well as increased profitability, a system-level approach toward defense-in-depth is required.
To stop such malicious and costly business threats, Cisco offers the Threat Defense System. The Cisco Threat Defense System is a collaboration of security solutions and intelligent networking technologies that identify and mitigate both known and unknown threats from inside and outside your organization. This unique systems approach protects your business' productivity gains through flexible, customizable deployment of security and network services, providing comprehensive coverage throughout the network, from the network data center, to the branch offices, and down to the end points.
The solutions that comprise a Threat Defense System include:
Endpoint security solutions like Cisco Security Agent to protect desktops and servers against “Day Zero” attacks as well as provide a solution to allow for planned patch management.
Integrated firewall solutions like the PIX Security Appliance, the Catalyst 6500 Firewall Services Module, and firewall feature set embedded within Cisco IOS Software to protect the perimeter as well as create “islands of security” on the internal network for an intense defense-in-depth approach.
Network intrusion prevention solutions accurately identify, classify, and stop malicious or damaging traffic in real-time. The Cisco Intrusion Prevention System version 5.0 with inline capabilities is available on the Cisco IPS 4200 Series appliances and the Cisco Catalyst 6500 Series Intrusion Detection System (IDSM-2) Module. Traditional IDS capabilities are available on the IDS Module for Access Routers. IOS based prevention is available on IOS-IPS series routers.
Distributed Denial of Service (DDoS) attack detection and mitigation with the performance and architecture to meet the needs of enterprises and service providers. The Cisco Traffic Anomaly Detector XT and Guard XT ensure business continuity with granularity and accuracy to defeat DDoS attacks.
Content security solutions like the Access router Content Engine module to protect Internet-based business applications and to provide URL and Web filtering to ensure the clean delivery of Web content.
Intelligent networking and security services embedded in routers and switches to assist in identifying and blocking malicious traffic and applications. This includes locking down the router using AutoSecure, reserving enough CPU/Memory to notify a DOS or other network attack, traffic classification and response features such as NBAR, Netflow and Qos, and Catalyst Integrated Security Features , ACLs and Private VLANs on the Catalyst switches.
Management and monitoring solutions to quickly and sufficiently provision and monitor security services and network activity through products such as CiscoWorks VPN/Security Management Solution (VMS), CiscoWorks Security Information Management System (SIMS), and embedded device managers such as Security Device Manager (SDM), IPS Device Manager, and PIX Device Manager (PDM).
The broad portfolio of integrated Secure Connectivity solutions from Cisco Systems, an essential element of the Self-Defending Network, protects the privacy of all information and allows organizations to:
- Control costs and increase flexibility
- Reduce the deployment burden and increase control with centralized management and policy enforcement
- Lower total cost of ownership by using existing infrastructure and knowledge base
- Increase profitability through enhanced productivity and business efficiency
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Ensuring the privacy and integrity of all information is vital to today's businesses. As companies use the flexibility and cost effectiveness of the Internet to extend their networks to branch offices, telecommuters, customers, and partners, security is paramount. Not only must organizations protect external communications, but they must help ensure that the information transported across an internal wired and wireless infrastructure remains confidential. Similarly, companies must secure voice and video as they use their existing network infrastructure to provide new business-enhancing services.
The dilemma many businesses now face is how to protect the privacy and integrity of all information while cost-effectively creating a manageable communications infrastructure that will improve productivity, enable new business applications, and enhance business efficiency. Additionally, many companies are mandated by governmental or industry regulations to ensure the privacy of information.
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