Symantec Information Foundation

Symantec Information Foundation Overview

Symantec Information Foundation 8.0 delivers industry-leading protection against risks to enterprise messaging and collaboration systems and helps reduce the cost of data retention and electronic discovery. The integrated product suite helps protect against data loss, spam, viruses, and other information risks and provides centralized archiving, audit, and E-Discovery for enterprise information.

Symantec Information Foundation delivers award-winning protection against spam and viruses, advanced content filtering and control of sensitive or regulated content, and cost-effective and scalable archiving of email, IM, and files.

Integrated Product Suite

Symantec Information Foundation provides centralized retention and archiving for information from multiple sources across the enterprise, and helps organizations manage information risk by addressing four key issues:

• Keeping malicious content and spam outside the organization to improve productivity and minimize downtime
• Preventing the loss of sensitive information and controlling the distribution of proprietary information
• Capturing information and retaining it for the appropriate period of time
• Facilitating easy discovery and retrieval of information for legal, regulatory, and other business purposes

By combining consistent content classification and control with a common risk-policy framework across the gateway, server, and archive layers, Symantec Information Foundation helps ensure that messaging and collaboration systems such as email, instant messaging, and files are protected against malicious content and data loss —all while helping to lower the total cost associated with systems management, data retention, electronic discovery, and regulatory compliance.

Symantec Information Foundation incorporates Symantec’s industry-leading antispam, antivirus, advanced content filtering, archiving, e-discovery, and policy management technologies. By delivering unparalleled protection and simplified information risk management, Symantec Information Foundation provides a comprehensive solution from one trusted vendor with a simplified licensing model.

Protection from threats

Because information flows through a variety of channels such as email and IM, businesses must ensure that it does not create added risk from viruses, worms, spam, and other unwanted content. Protection requires powerful solutions at the critical points where data is exchanged. Symantec Information Foundation blocks known threats and suspicious content. Symantec’s adaptive technologies and market-leading response organization provide ongoing protection by helping businesses stay ahead of a rapidly changing threat landscape.

Data loss prevention

The ease of sharing and distributing information has greatly increased the risk of losing sensitive, proprietary, or regulated content. Because of the pervasiveness of collaboration via messaging systems, IT needs end-to-end protection against the accidental or malicious loss of information. Symantec Information Foundation helps mitigate the risks associated with data loss by offering an end-to-end solution which provides message monitoring, filtering, and auditing from the gateway to the archive.

Archiving and retention

The pressure on organizations to manage information more effectively has intensified as the volume of unstructured data generated by email, file server environments, IM platforms, and collaboration systems has increased. Symantec Information Foundation utilizes industry-leading technologies to capture, categorize, index, and store data from across the enterprise, enabling organizations to enforce retention policies and protect their assets while reducing storage costs and simplifying management.

Electronic discovery and audit

IT is faced with a growing number of mandates and policies governing the retention of unstructured information. What’s more, the frequency with which organizations need to respond to legal and internal search requests is also increasing. That means the need for comprehensive archiving and flexible, efficient discovery has become mission-critical. Symantec Information Foundation helps facilitate the collection, archiving, and discovery of unstructured content and helps demonstrate compliance with governance policies, standards, and laws.

Feature and Benefits:

Key Features:

• Integrates market-leading gateway and groupware security controls with today's top archiving and traffic-shaping technologies.
• Consistent controls and automatic risk classifications to help ensure that information is free of unwanted content and is subject to the appropriate review and retention policies.
• Centralized, multi-source archiving with integrated e-discovery and audit capabilities, creating a single repository for today's constantly growing information volumes.
• Common incident management, remediation and audit capabilities that help ensure risk management compliance.

Key Benefits:

• Protects against the loss of sensitive proprietary or regulated content by real-time filtering of messages.
• Enforces retention and archiving policies for email instant messaging, portal content, files and documents.
• Improves server performance and archiving efficiency and helps cut storage costs by reducing the amount of information held in mail and file systems.
• Simplifies information risk management and reduces operating costs with a single, integrated solution.

System Requirements:

Symantec Information Foundation is a product suite that includes licenses to use the following:

Symantec Enterprise Vault

• Enterprise Vault 9.0 servers operate with Enterprise Vault 8.0 or later clients.
• Enterprise Vault 9.0 clients operate with Enterprise Vault 8.0 or later servers.
• EMC CentraStar 4.0
• Exchange Server 2000 SP3
• Internet Explorer 7.0
• Lotus Domino Server 7.0.2 + hotfix
• Lotus Notes 2006
• Microsoft ISA Server 2006
• .NET Framework:
  • On the Enterprise Vault server or on a computer running a standalone Enterprise Vault Administration Console - 3.5 SP1
  • On a server running the Enterprise Vault FSA Agent - 2.0 SP2
• Outlook:
  • On a user workstation running the Enterprise Vault Outlook Add-In - 2003 SP2
  • On the Enterprise Vault server to support archiving from versions of Exchange Server earlier than Exchange Server 2010 - 2003 SP2
  • On the Enterprise Vault server to support archiving from Exchange Server 2010 SP1 - 2007 SP2 with hotfix package
• Safari 4
• SharePoint Server 2007
• SQL Server 2005 SP2
• Windows Search 4.0
• Windows Server 2003 SP2
• Windows SharePoint Services 3.0
• Windows XP SP2

Symantec Brightmail Gateway

Appliance Platforms

• Symantec Brightmail 8300 Series appliances
• Symantec Mail Security 8300 Series appliances

Virtual Hypervisors (Virtual Edition)

• VMware ESX 3.5 (rev 4 or later)
• VMware vSphere 4.0
• VMware ESXi 3.5 (rev 3 or later), ESXi 4.0

Browser Requirements (Administrative Console)

• Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0, 7.0, 8.0
• Firefox 3.0, 3.5

Symantec IM Manager

Mininum recommended hardware requirements

• 1.8 GHz Pentium III dual-processor
• 512 RAM
• 30+ GB Hard Disk
• 1 GB Virtual Memory

Recommend IM manager server

• 3.0 GHz Intel® Xeon® processor
• 1 GB RAM
• 60 GB hard disk

Recommended database server

• 3.0 GHz Intel Xeon processor
• 1 GB RAM
• 100 GB hard disk

Mininum recommended software requirements

• Windows Server 2003, 2000 Server Service Pack 4 or later
• Red Hat Enterprise Server 3.0 for the pass through relay (for DMZ deployment)
• MDAC 2.5 or later
• Internet Explorer 6.0 or later
• MSXML Core Services 4.0 SP2
• Microsoft IIS Web Services
• Access to Oracle (Oracle 9i v 9.2.0.5 with ODBC drivers 9.2.0.63, Oracle Enterprise Client 9.2.01)
• MS-SQL 2005, 2000 SP4 or MSDE installed database

Sample of supported IM networks

• AIM 6.5
• Yahoo 8.1
• Windows LiveMessenger 8.5
• Google Talk
• ICQ 6.0
• Sametime 8.0
• Office Communications Server 2007

For a full list, visit: http://service1.symantec.com/SUPPORT/ent-gate.nsf/doci d/2007082917260454

Symantec Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange

Server Operating Systems

• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2/SP2 Standard/Enterprise (64-bit)
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2/SP2 Standard/Enterprise (32-bit or 64-bit)

Exchange Platforms

• Microsoft Exchange Server 2010
• Microsoft Exchange Server 2007
• Microsoft Exchange Server 2003

Management Console Operating Systems

• Windows 7
• Windows Vista
• Windows XP
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2/SP2 Standard/Enterprise (64-bit)
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2/SP2 Standard/Enterprise (32-bit or 64-bit)

Hardware

• 1GB RAM, 352MBB available disk space

Hardware Virtualization

• VMware ESXi 3.5., 4.0
• VMware vSphere ESXi 4.0
• Microsoft Hyper-V Server 2008
• Windows Server 2008 with Hyper-V technology

Symantec Mail Security for Domino

Mail Security for Domino 8.0 Supported Operating Systems and IBM Lotus Notes Platforms

• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 R2/SP2 Standard/Enterprise (32-bit or 64-bit)
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 R2/SP2 Standard/Enterprise (32-bit or 64-bit)
• IBM AIX version 5.3 or 6.1
• IBM Lotus Domino Server 7.x, 8.0.x, or 8.5.x (32-bit)
• IBM Lotus Notes Client 7.x or later

Mail Security for Domino 3.2 Supported Operating Systems and IBM Lotus Notes Platforms

• Novell SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9.0 or later (32-bit or 64-bit)
• RedHat Enterprise Linux 4.0 or later (32-bit or 64-bit)
• Sun Solaris 8 or later
• IBM iSeries V5R3, V5R4
• IBM Lotus Domino Server 7.x, 8.0.x, or 8.5.x (32-bit)
• IBM Lotus Notes Client 7.x or later

Documentation:

Download the Symantec Information Foundation Datasheet (PDF).