We’ll be at the VMware Forums across EMEA next quarter, will you?
Symantec is going to be a main sponsor in the biggest VMware Forum events across EMEA. The first event comes shortly after our recent announcement at the RSA conference that five new security integrations with the VMware cloud infrastructure suite have taken place (check out the press release
Windows Server 2003 Migration Challenges and Options - Part 1
What’s Happening? On July 14 th , 2015, Microsoft will end support for all versions of Windows Server 2003. This means that Microsoft will no longer offer support, security patches and software updates for this product. What are the risks of continuing to run Windows Server 2003 while unsupported?Enable the Agile Data Center - Join us at the Gartner Data Center Conference
Join Symantec at the Gartner Data Center, Infrastructure & Operations Management Conference 2014 in Las Vegas and get the information you need to deliver crucial IT services and drive improved levels of productivity and innovation at the same time.
Disarm Advanced Persistent Threats with Symantec Messaging Gateway
Most people today rely on email as their method for business communication – sending and receiving hundreds of emails every day. This dependence on email can create a weak link in securing corporate information and expose a company to attacks. While hackers still use general spam emails and social engineering (or phishing) attacks against organizations, they are now increasingly pursuing sophisticated and targeted attacks that are far more difficult to differentiate from the emails we typically receive. In fact, Symantec’s 2013 Internet Security Threat Report found a 42 percent increase in targeted attacks in 2012. Most spam emails are relatively easy to identify and quarantine, but targeted attacks are customized for their recipients, making them harder to spot. For example, a company’s HR department could receive an email that requests that they click on a link to check out potential candidates for positions for which they are recruiting. This email, which contains hidden malware, appears trustworthy and traditional filters are less likely to identify and remove the malware in the email. It’s with this type of attack in mind that the new Symantec Messaging Gateway 10.5 offers a suite of advanced protective technologies that enable IT to effectively protect their systems from evolving email threats in real time. Best protection with superior effectiveness and advanced threat detection To help protect customers, Messaging Gateway 10.5 now includes Disarm – a new, patent-pending, innovative technology invented by Symantec Research Labs to prevent targeted, never-before-seen email threats. This technology, which is unique to the industry, inspects all emails for Microsoft Office and Adobe PDF attachments, and creates reconstructed versions of the attachments with any exploitable active content removed before the email and new attachments are delivered to the recipient in real time. Without Disarm, this active content, including javascript, macros and embedded Flash, can be used to silently deliver malicious files to a user. In fact, in tests conducted by Symantec, it was found that Disarm would have blocked 98 percent of attacks that exploit zero-day vulnerabilities thus far in 2013. Learn more about how Disarm helps in protecting against targeted attacks here. Symantec Messaging Gateway also features the Brightmail antispam filtering engine to identify email-borne threats at both the global and local levels, via Symantec’s Global Intelligence Network. Symantec’s portfolio of messaging security solutions draws on this real-time intelligence from more than five million decoy accounts and over three billion messages processed daily to identify new threats, based on reputation and message content, before they wreak havoc on unsuspecting victims and organizations. This enables Messaging Gateway to block more than 99 percent of spam with less than one in one million false positives. Greater control with data loss prevention and email encryption There are human elements to data protection just as there are technological elements. Messaging Gateway provides advanced content filtering and data loss prevention (DLP) technologies that make it easier to secure and control sensitive data. Administrators can easily build effective and flexible policies that enforce regulatory compliance and protect against data loss. Messaging Gateway appliances also leverage integration with Symantec Data Loss Prevention, to simplify the management of day-to-day DLP incidents. With the increase in regulations that require private information be encrypted, Messaging Gateway offers premium encryption options that can meet a customer’s unique needs as a hosted service or on-premise. Used as a policy enforcement point, Messaging Gateway evaluates messages against customer-specified criteria, and if it is determined encryption is necessary, sends them to be encrypted. Unified management and administration Messaging Gateway includes a powerful control center for unified management and administration of a company’s entire messaging infrastructure. From a single Web-based console, administrators can easily manage multiple Messaging Gateway appliances to view trends, attack statistics and non-compliance incidents. By removing the complexity of multiple consoles, disparate policies, and incompatible logging and reporting procedures, Messaging Gateway significantly reduces the total cost of ownership of messaging security infrastructure. Messaging Gateway also supports a full set of reporting options, including a dashboard and executive summaries that highlight system efficacy and impact. Reporting helps administrators proactively identify data loss trends and demonstrate compliance. Messaging Gateway integrates a unique set of technologies that deliver robust protection, while enabling IT greater control and ease of use so it can focus on system architecture and helping drive the business, instead of responding to spam complaints and malware attacks. For more information on supported platforms, system requirements and securing your email system, please visit http://www.symantec.com/messaging-gateway. Additional Resources VIDEO: Protect Against Spear Phishing and Advanced Targeted Attacks Symantec Messaging Gateway Data Sheet: Symantec Messaging Gateway 10.5 Symantec Data Loss Prevention Gartner 2013 Magic Quadrant for Secure Email Gateways
Nexus, eNerds, and 9Spheres Discuss Benefits of Symantec’s SMB Partner Program
APJ partners, Nexus, eNerds, and 9spheres face diverse challenges from their myriad of customers. Though each company has varied customer demands, each company found the confidence, credibility, and efficiency from being part of Symantec’s SMB Partner Program. Learn more about how these partners are benefiting from the SMB Partner Program in this video:Differentiating Partners with the Highest Value in Enablement and Sales Opportunities
Channel Partners are always looking for new ways to differentiate their business so that they can offer the highest value to their customer base by providing best-in-class security solutions. Alignment with the right channel vendor(s) is crucial for partners to stay ahead of the market and evolve their businesses over time to solve business challenges.Great Article: How to Avoid the Top 6 IT Mistakes Small Businesses Make
Hi Everyone, Here’s a great article from our own Blake McConnell, Product Manager for Symantec Security. He outlines the Top 6 IT Mistakes for Small Businesses and shows how to better protect your clients with good backup and security. http://www.pcmallsbn.com/n/article-265
