Symantec Advanced Threat Protection helps businesses quickly and efficiently detect, prioritize and remediate malicious attacks across all their control points.
Symantec Corp. the largest worldwide company cyber security1, announces Symantec Advanced Threat Protection (ATP), the first solution that detects and remediates advanced threats across all control points, from a central management console, with a single click and without the need to install new agents on endpoints.
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% improved detection compared to other similar products on the market," said Balaji Yelamanchili, executive vice president and general manager of the Enterprise Security Business, Symantec. “Until now security professionals had to manually check whether a suspect archive has been effectively blocked. With our new technologies integrated into 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 strengthens existing SymantecTM Endpoint Protection and Email Security.cloud installations without requiring new endpoint agents. This allows customers to create a new installation of Symantec ATP in less than an hour and start searching for attacks in just a few minutes. The product can also extract its rich intelligence to third-party security incident event managers (SIEMs). As Symantec ATP is evolving, the company plans to open it to third-party technology partners, including firewalls and other security products, allowing customers to enhance the value of their existing investments.
They said about ATP ...
• Η διασφάλιση ενός μεγάλου πανευρωπαϊκού χρηματιστηρίου αποτελεί ένα μεγάλο στοίχημα και το 2014 προστέθηκε ένας τεράστιος βαθμός πολυπλοκότητας στη διασφάλιση των δεδομένων αυτών. Τα γεγονότα δείχνουν ότι ένα μόλις τεχνικό πρόβλημα αρκεί για να ταρακουνήσει τις αγορές και να προκαλέσει οικονομικές, νομικές αλλά και βλάβες στην εταιρική φήμη. Η Euronext στράφηκε στη Symantec, τον παγκόσμιο ηγέτη της αγοράς, για να εξασφαλίσει την υποδομή της και συμφώνησε να δοκιμάσει μια πρώιμη έκδοση του Symantec Advanced Threat Protection. Ήδη διαφάνηκε ότι έχει καλύτερη εποπτεία σε ό, τι συμβαίνει στα τερματικά της Euronext, ενώ όλα γίνονται πλέον με απλούστερο, ταχύτερο και πιο αποτελεσματικό τρόπο. Ως αποτέλεσμα, η Euronext έχει θέσει πλέον προτεραιότητες και μειώνει σημαντικά τον αριθμό των πιθανών περιστατικών ασφάλειας», δήλωσε ο Marc Green,επικεφαλής του τμήματος Threat and Vulnerability Management της Euronext.
• "In fact, pioneering, better prevention, detection, addressing and predicting potential are necessary elements to be able to cope with all kinds of attacks, whether they are advanced or not. Moreover, these possibilities should not be evaluated individually. They should integrate intelligently together as an integrated, easily adaptable system that can be a comprehensive 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, more than ever, are faced with security requirements as their data moves across public, private and even virtual environments. The reality of the BYOD phenomenon within enterprises has made risk management increasingly 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 database of of threats, to help prioritize threats not detected by other products in business computing. It's exactly what our customers are looking for: A simple way to manage and prevent the next big one infringement of the data".
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.
