Symantec Protection Suite Advanced Business Edition

Symantec Protection Suite Advanced Business Edition Overview

Symantec Protection Suite Advanced Business Edition is an "all-in-one" suite that protects critical business assets by securing against today's malicious malware and spam threats as well as by rapidly recovering key systems when problems happen. It is the industry's first business security suite that combines endpoint, email and data protection with server backup and recovery capabilities. With award winning technologies from the market-leading endpoint security, messaging security, and backup and recovery vendor, Symantec Protection Suite Advanced Business Edition keeps your key desktops, servers and core applications running. It enables fast data and system recovery to ensure your core infrastructure and mission critical applications are readily available at all times. As your business evolves and as your network grows, Symantec Protection Suite Advanced Business Edition can scale with you, by easily adding next-generation Symantec security technologies to completely protect the most crucial assets to your business, while balancing performance, ease of use and costs.

Symantec Protection Suite - Protection right-sized for your business

Advance your business protection with the new Symantec Protection Suite Advanced Business Edition. It offers end-to-end, continuous protection for your business systems – without the cost and complexity of big business suites. Avoid both pointsolution gaps and enterprise-scale overhead and expense with the industry's only all-in-one security and availability solution. Advanced protection is easier than you may think.

In addition, the new suite features built-in software-based network access control to ensure endpoints remain in compliance

This multilayered approach significantly lowers risk, providing confidence that business assets are protected. The endpoint security of Protection Suite Advanced Business Edition includes these capabilities now, with the ability to enable individual components as needed.

Messaging and Web security

Antispam, messaging, and Web security protection
Protection Suite delivers inbound and outbound messaging security, with effective and accurate real-time antispam and antivirus protection, advanced content filtering, data loss prevention, and email encryption. The Protection Suite messaging security components can be deployed both at the messaging server level on Microsoft® Exchange and Lotus Domino®, and at the gateway level with physical or virtual appliance-based security. Advanced content filtering and data loss prevention help organizations control sensitive data, reduce the risks associated with data loss, and meet regulatory compliance and corporate governance demands. The Protection Suite messaging security is simple to administer and the messaging security solutions within the suite have been benchmarked at catching more than 99% of spam with very few false positives1 . Real-time automatic updates, global and self-learning local IP reputation analysis, and comprehensive reporting ensure that the Protection Suite effectively and transparently responds to new spam threats. This minimizes network downtime and preserves employee productivity.

Protection Suite Advanced Business Edition also offers unpararelled Web security to fend off today’s complex Web-borne malware threats. Organizations can safely use the Web to conduct business, communicate with partners and customers by deploying Symantec™ Web Gateway. Web Gateway gives organizations the ability to detect infected endpoints, monitor inbound and outbound Web traffic for threats, and safely use today’s Web 2.0 applications.

Backup and recovery

Full system and data recovery
Protection Suite extends its system protection to include disk-based system recovery for Microsoft® Windows based desktops and laptops which enables businesses to recover from system loss or disasters in minutes, not hours or days — even to dissimilar hardware platforms, to virtual environments, or in remote, unattended locations. It centrally manages backup and recovery tasks for multiple desktops and laptops across the entire organization.

Feature and Benefits:

Key Features:

Endpoint Security - More than antivirus

• Protect against more threats using Symantec's industry leading integrated endpoint protection technologies including antivirus, antispyware, desktop firewall, intrusion prevention, application control and device control technologies
• Save time and money with easy product installation, including the ability to deploy your endpoint protection environment in under 20 minutes, with self-guiding wizards for easy setup and configuration.2
• Adapt to risks faster and take action within minutes with the Symantec Global Intelligence Network
• Antivirus for Linux and Macintosh—Comprehensive virus protection against malicious threats that target Linux and Macintosh systems.

Messaging Security - Effective protection against new messaging threats

• Protect against inbound and outbound email and instant messaging (IM) based threats, enabling businesses to secure vulnerable messaging systems.
• Simple to administer, effective, and accurate, catching more than 99% of spam with fewer than one false positive per million messages.
• Simple to administer, effective, and accurate, catching more than 99% of spam with fewer than one false positive per million messages.

Backup and Recovery - Industry first security suite with backup and recovery

• Ensures that your business assets are protected against failures or new security threats, including automated, event-driven backups triggered by Symantec's Global Intelligence Network information.
• Easily restore entire systems back to an exact point-in-time, even to dissimilar hardware, without the need for manual and lengthy error prone system rebuilding.
• Centrally manages backup and recovery tasks for multiple desktops, laptops and servers3 across your entire organization.

Key Benefits:

Complete Protection - Delivers multiple layers of protection for your business

• Protect your entire infrastructure against more threats. Secure endpoints, messaging servers, and gateways proactively with more than traditional antivirus and antispyware to protect against many more of today's threats.
• Recover Data, Desktops and Servers1 completely— Recover individual files and folders in seconds or complete Windows systems in minutes when problems happen, even to dissimilar hardware or virtual environments.
• Safeguard intellectual property— Secure sensitive data and valuable confidential information at the gateway with advanced content filtering and data loss prevention.

Ensure Business Continuity - Keeps mission critical systems running smoothly in case of disruption

• Maintain business uptime— Have confidence that your business will go uninterrupted by security and system problems, since your assets will be protected by proactive system protection, data protection and reliable, automated backup and recovery.
• Optimize performance—Free up server resources and increase performance by eliminating spam and email threats before they reach your key messaging servers.
• Rely on trusted research—Proactively protect your business using real-time security intelligence from Symantec Global Intelligence Network, the largest security research network in the world.

Easy Management - Provides simple management to help you scale

• Integrated endpoint security—Deploy unified endpoint security technologies with options that assure affordability today and scalability tomorrow.
• Simple implementation—Quickly deploy with minimal disruption to your environment through easy Management, fast deployment single sign-on capabilities and optimized utilization of system resources.
• Central management—Simplify IT administration by centrally managing backup, recovery and critical security tasks across your entire organization.

2. 3. With Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition deployed (SEP SBE 12.0) License entitlement to Symantec Backup Exec™ System Recovery Server Edition is one per every 50 licenses of Symantec Protection Suite Advanced Business Edition purchased on a single order.

New Features:

Endpoint Security
Solid comprehensive endpoint protection for customers with either the need for flexible full-featured capabilities or protection with less management features

• Protects against more threats by integrating industry leading protection technologies such as antivirus, antispyware, desktop firewall, intrusion prevention, and application and device control technologies
• Provides operational efficiencies by delivering a single integrated interface with single software updates, single policy updates
• Comprehensive virus protection against malicious threats that target Linux and Macintosh systems.
• Saves you time and money with a 20 minute deployment and helps simplify the install process with self-guiding wizards for easy setup and configuration. *
• Integrated self-enforcement Network Access Control. **

Messaging Security
Effective protection against new messaging threats

• Protects against inbound and outbound email and instant messaging (IM)-borne threats, enabling organizations to secure vulnerable messaging systems
• Advanced content filtering and data loss prevention technology helps organizations control sensitive data, reduce the risks associated with data loss, and meet regulatory compliance and corporate governance demands
• Simple to administer, effective, and accurate, catching more than 97% of spam with less than one in a million false positives
• Continuous automatic updates, global and self-learning local IP reputation analysis, and comprehensive reporting ensure that Brightmail Gateway effectively and transparently responds to new spam threats to minimize network downtime and preserve employee productivity
• Defends against new and known viruses with timely and automatic updates to ensure protection against emerging threats

Backup and Recovery
The first and only security suite that offers comprehensive availability capabilities to provide thorough data and infrastructure protection

• Ensures that your business assets are protected against new threats through automated, event-driven backups
• Easily restore entire systems back to an exact point-in-time, even to dissimilar hardware, without the need for manual and lengthy error prone processes
• Minimize downtime and gets your systems back up and running in minutes, not hours or days
• Centrally manages backup and recovery tasks for multiple desktops/laptops/servers across your entire organization

System Requirements:

Minimum System Requirements

Comparison:

Which Symantec Protection Suite is right for me?   <50 seats 50-100 seats 100+ seats Protection Suite Small Business Edition Protection Suite Advanced Business Edition Protection SuiteEnterprise Edition Endpoint Security Antivirus/Antispyware Endpoint Firewall Intrusion Detection/Prevention Device and Application Control Protrction for Macintosh Protection for Linux   Protection for Windows Mobile     Network Access Control Self Enforcement     Messaging and Web Security Antivirus/ Antispam/ Antiphishing Reputation-based spam filtering   Content filtering/ Compliance Data loss prevention   Microsoft Exchange Lotus Domino     Messaging Gateway Software Subscription   Web Gateway Software Subscription     Backup and Recovery Backup live desktops and laptops Restore to any hardware Server backup and disaster recovery     Threat driven backups Central Management Console Single sign-on management and reporting access

Note: Symantec Protection Suite Advanced Business Edition Messaging Security features available for Exchange, Domino, Gateway, and Instant Messaging, while Symantec Protection Suite Small Business Edition Messaging Security only available on Exchange.

Documentation:

Download the Symantec Protection Suite Advanced Business Edition Datasheet (PDF).