Symantec Protection Suite Small Business Edition

Symantec Protection Suite Small Business Edition Overview

Symantec Protection Suite Small Business Edition is a simple and affordable solution that protects small business environment against today’s most dangerous threats. It secures desktops and servers against viruses and spyware, protecting email against spam and phishing threats, and quickly recovering desktops and laptops in the event of failure.

Symantec Protection Suite Small Business Edition is an easyto- use, “all-in-one” suite that secures your critical business assets and information against today’s complex malware and spam threats, and rapidly recovers data or computer systems. It includes award-winning technologies from the market-leading endpoint security, messaging security, and backup and recovery vendor. Symantec Protection Suite Small Business Edition provides multiple layers of protection with unmatched defense against email-borne threats and security risks. This all-inclusive suite creates a secure environment where computer system failures, malware, and spam risks are accurately identified and addressed immediately. Symantec Protection Suite Small Business Edition also enables reliable recovery of data in seconds or complete systems in minutes, ensuring high availability and avoiding business-interruption threats.

Small businesses can now save both time and money with this ready-to-go, comprehensive suite which is trouble-free and straightforward to install, deploy, and manage. Intuitive interfaces, pre-configured settings, and built-in wizards help users get up to speed quickly without the need for special training. Rely on Symantec’s trusted research that utilizes one of the world’s leading scalable security infrastructures, the Symantec Global Intelligence Network, which gives Symantec unmatched insight into today’s threats as well as real-time security intelligence to provide early threat warnings and protection from newly discovered risks. With superior security, easy management features, and rapid recovery capabilities, this all-inclusive suite is designed for small businesses so you can have confidence your assets are continuously protected while focusing on running your business.

Feature and Benefits:

Key Features:

Endpoint security - More than antivirus

• Antivirus and antispyware—Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition provides unmatched, best-of-breed malware protection, including market-leading antivirus protection, enhanced spyware protection, new rootkit protection, reduced memory footprint, and new dynamic performance adjustments to keep users productive
• Network threat protection—A rules-based firewall engine and Generic Exploit Blocking (GEB) block malware before it can enter a system
• Proactive threat protection—Protecting against unseen threats (i.e., zero-day threats), it includes Symantec TruScan™ Proactive Threat Scan, which does not rely on a signature
• Single agent and single management console—Symantec™ Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition provides antivirus, antispyware, desktop firewall, and IPS on a single agent—all managed by a single management console

Messaging security - Antispam and messaging security protection

The Symantec Brightmail™ based antispam technology delivers greater than 97 percent effectiveness and a false positive rate of less than one in a million, making it one of the industry’s most accurate solutions.

• Scans inbound and outbound email traffic for virus, spam, and phishing attacks
• Provides integrated content filtering for policy enforcement, blocking inappropriate content and restricting confidential information from being sent
• Delivers automatic spam signature updates to help ensure effective, real-time protection against new threats
• Offers unparalleled protection, as evidenced by the industry’s only record more than 40 consecutive VB100 awards since 1999
• Provides real-time analytics and reporting, gaining visibility into email usage and growth patterns

Backup and recovery

Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery Desktop Edition enables rapid, reliable recovery of computer data and systems

• Create while-you-work backups of the entire system, without disrupting user productivity
• Home page view immediately identifies the backup status of computer systems
• Run backups automatically when the Symantec ThreatCon level reaches or exceeds the level you specify

Key Benefits:

Complete protection - Delivers multiple layers of protection for your business

• Deploy proven technologies—Protect with confidence with the market-leading endpoint security, messaging security, and data and system protection vendor
• Protect against more threats—Create a protected environment where computer system failures, malware, and spam risks are accurately identified and addressed immediately
• Complete data and system recovery—Recover individual files and folders in seconds or entire computer systems in minutes, even to different computer systems or virtual environments
• Protect end-to-end—Actively protect from unknown threats for laptops, desktops, and messaging servers with more than traditional antivirus and antispyware

Easy management - Simple to install, deploy, and manage

• Simplify implementation—Quickly deploy with minimal disruption to your environment through easy management and optimized system resources
• Use effortlessly—Easy-to-use, intuitive interfaces and built-in wizards help customers get up to speed quickly without special training
• Eliminate complexity—Improve productivity with preconfigured notifications, settings, and scheduled reports
• Streamline processes—Eliminate additional steps and costs with one decision, one purchase, and one vendor for complete protection

Confidence always - Ensures systems and critical information are readily available

• Ensure business continuity—Have confidence that your business assets are protected against new threats through automated, event-driven backups
• Reliable, automated recovery—Easily restore entire computer systems back to an exact point-in-time, without the need for manual and lengthy error-prone processes
• Minimize downtime—Get your computer systems back up and running in minutes, not hours or days

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New Features:

Endpoint Security

Endpoint Protection:

• Protects against more threats by integrating industry leading protection technologies such as antivirus, antispyware, desktop firewall, and Intrusion Prevention technologies to offer multi-layered security.
• 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.
• Minimizes performance impact with superior boot-time in and low overhead when it comes to every day interaction with files and applications.
• Provides operational efficiencies by delivering a single integrated interface for managing all Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition technologies.

Messaging Security

• Protects Microsoft Exchange Server from spam and phishing threats with a 99% spam catch rate and 99.9999% accuracy.
• Defends against new and known viruses with timely and automatic updates to ensure protection against emerging threats.
• Provides centralized management and consolidated reports and requires only minimal on-going administration after initial setup.
• Support for Exchange 2010 and virtualized Exchange environment.

Backup and Recovery – Full System and Data Recovery

• Ensures that your business assets are protected against new threats through automated, event-driven backups.
• Easily restore entire computer 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 computer systems back up and running in minutes, not hours or days.
• Centrally manages backup and recovery tasks for multiple desktops/laptops across your entire organization.

System Requirements:

Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition

Symantec Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange

Symantec AntiVirus for Macintosh 10.2

Backup Exec System Recovery 2010 Desktop Edition

Symantec Premium AntiSpam

Operating System requirements

• Solaris 8 or 9
• Windows 2000 Server (SP3)
• Windows 2003 Server (SP1)

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 Enterprise 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 Small Business Edition Datasheet (PDF).