Symantec Advanced Threat Protection helps the businesses to quickly and efficiently detect, prioritize and remediate malicious attacks across all their control points.
H Symantec Corp. the world's largest security company in 1, announces Symantec's Advanced Threat Protection (ATP), the first solution to detect and fix advanced threats at all control points, from one central management console with just one click and no need to install new agents terminals.
Advanced threats such as ransomware, remote access trojans, advanced persistent threats (APTs) and zero day attacks are on the rise, and system security experts can no longer rely solely on using individual protection products at each control point to prevent them.
Revealing a threat to a terminal, network, and e-mail gateway is a manual and extremely time-consuming process, which gives a significant advantage to the attackers.
Symantec ATP associates suspicious activity at all checkpoints and prioritizes events that pose the greatest risk to a business or organization. Once a critical threat has been identified, it can now be quickly identified and therefore blocked in the other similar cases.
Symantec ATP gives customers the ability to:
• Disclose the full range of threats from APTs to zero-day attacks on terminals, the network and e-mail, with combined detection of hubs and environmental search.
• Prioritize threats that genuinely merit attention and relate them to the threat intelligence among all local control points, with everything Symantec continuously records globally through mass telemetry.
• Quickly restore threats by blocking terminals and blocking new incidents at all points and controlling a click from a single console.
• Enhance their existing investments in Symantec Endpoint Security and Email Security.cloud, without the need for new endpoint agents.
"Data security professionals are constantly on the alert trying to monitor and prevent the next cyber-attack," said Michael A. Brown, Symantec's chairman and chief executive officer. "With Symantec Advanced Threat Protection, we take the market one step further, giving customers a complete picture of their entire business from a single console. Now they can filter the data and quickly discover and repair an attack. "
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Source: Gartner - Market Share Analysis: Security Software, Worldwide, 2014. Published May 15, 2015 - https://www.gartner.com/doc/3054132/market-share-analysis-security-software
Source: IDC - Market Analysis Perspective, Worldwide Security Products, 2015. PublishedSeptember2015 - http://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=259402
Noise reduction for Symantec ATP users can be achieved in a number of ways. Combining Symantec Global Threat Intelligence with locally collected customer data allows businesses to get a clearer picture of which threats pose the greatest risk within their infrastructure. In addition, Symantec ATP includes Symantec CynicTM, a new cloud-based sandboxing testing and filtering environment that detects and prioritizes today's most advanced threats. It also includes SynapseTM, with correlation and control technologies, which collects suspicious activity in terminals, network and e-mail, giving priority to the threats that pose the greatest risk to the organization.
"Our new Synapse and Cynic technologies work together to provide up to 30% more crawling than other comparable products in the market," said Balaji Yelamanchili, executive vice president and general manager of Enterprise Security Business, Symantec. "Until now, security professionals had to manually check if a suspicious file has been blocked effectively. With our new technologies embedded in SymantecATP, we do all the hard work for customers, significantly reducing search and recovery time. "
"An average business uses 75 different security products," added Yelamanchili. "Overloading creates opportunities for attackers as it slows down detection. Symantec ATP allows security professionals, with one click, to restore all three control points. "
Symantec ATP enhances existing installations of SymantecTM Endpoint Protection and Email Security.cloud without requiring new endpoint agents. This allows customers to create a new installation of Symantec ATP in less than an hour and start scanning for attacks in just minutes. The product can also export its rich intelligence to third-party security incident event managers (SIEMs). As Symantec ATP evolves, the company plans to open it up to third-party partners technology, including manufacturers of firewalls and other security products, thereby enabling customers to enhance the value of their existing investments.
They said about ATP ...
• Securing a large pan-European exchange is a big gamble and 2014 added a huge degree of complexity to securing that data. Facts show that just one technical problem is enough to shake up markets and cause financial, legal and even reputational damage. Euronext turned to Symantec, the global market leader, to secure its infrastructure and agreed to test an early version of Symantec Advanced Threat Protection. It has already become apparent that it has better supervision over what happens at the Euronext terminals, while everything is now done in a simpler, faster and more efficient way. As a result, Euronext has now prioritized and significantly reduced the number of potential security incidents," said Marc Green, Head of Threat and Vulnerability Management of Euronext.
• “In fact, being proactive, better preventing, detecting, countering and anticipating possibilities are essential elements in order to be able to deal with all kinds of attacks, whether they are advanced or not. In addition, the possibilities these should not be assessed in isolation. They should be integrated together in an intelligent way as a complete, easily customizable system that can be a complete process of protection against advanced threats.” Source: Gartner, Designing an Adaptive Security Architecture for Protection From Advanced Attacks 12 February 2014, Gartner Foundational 19 November 2014)
• As business security issues become more and more complex, in response to such a dynamic threat landscape, security managers require a platform that integrates and manages all security-related actions. Similarly, in order to tackle the lack of skills needed, a mechanism is needed to automate security-related operations as well as to quickly identify and repair threats, "said Duncan Brown, Research Director, IDC's European Security Practice.
• “Our strategic partnership with Symantec has received a new boost with the addition of Symantec Advanced Threat Protection. In the era of cyber threats, we strongly believe that ATP will significantly strengthen customers' defenses by integrating superior threat detection and advanced remediation capabilities into their existing security portfolio. By combining Wipro's Enterprise Security Solutions' expertise with Symantec's powerful technology, we expect to significantly improve the confidence our customers place in their online protection and risk management strategy,” said Sheetal Mehta, VP & Global Head – Enterprise Security Solutions, by Wipro.
• "In today's dynamic world, businesses are facing security requirements more than ever, as their data circulates in public, private and virtual environments. "The reality of BYOD in business has made risk management even more critical," said Kalyan Kumar, SVP & Chief Technologist at HCL Technologies. "In such a scenario, Symantec Advanced Threat Protection is a state-of-the-art solution that not only serves as an early warning system, but allows customers to take full advantage of Symantec's vast database of subject matter. threats to help prioritize threats not detected by other products in business computerization. "This is exactly what our customers are looking for: A simple way to manage and prevent the next big data breach."
Prices and availability
Symantec Advanced Threat Protection will be available at the end of 2015.
The suggested retail price is $ 40 per user per year to protect a checkpoint.
The suggested retail price is $ 60 per user per year to protect two checkpoints.
The suggested retail price is $ 70 per user per year to protect three checkpoints.
