MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.-( )-Symantec Corp. (NASDAQ: SYMC), the world’s leading cyber security company, today announced new innovations and enhancements to its Network Security for the Cloud Generation solution, designed to protect enterprise devices, anywhere their employees work or travel, across the network, the cloud, mobile and traditional endpoints. As an integral element of Symantec’s Integrated Cyber Defense Platform, enhancements to the solution include:. Industry-first Web Isolation technology integrated into Symantec’s Web Security Service (WSS), enables web browsing without risk of infection by zero-day malware or advanced threats. Comprehensive network-to-endpoint protection with the integration of Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) and SEP Mobile into WSS, allowing web traffic re-directs to WSS for enforcement of network security policies, thus eliminating the need for a separate agent to manage traffic flow.

1. Symantec Network Threat Protection

SD-Cloud Connector enables customers to combine the performance and reliability of Software Defined WAN (SD-WAN) technology with Symantec’s WSS to create a simple, high-performance method to connect branch office locations with its leading cloud security service. Symantec’s WSS is a single-service offering that includes Secure Web Gateway (SWG), Web Isolation, malware inspection engines, sandboxing, data loss prevention (DLP), and cloud access security broker (CASB), and integrates with multi-factor authentication. The new features provide businesses with a comprehensive, easy-to-use, cloud-based network security service that safeguards critical business information for secure and compliant cloud application and web use. As businesses adopt cloud applications such as Office 365 and employees access these apps remotely, it introduces new security and compliance risks. Symantec’s Network Security for the Cloud Generation provides comprehensive protection designed to meet the needs of increasingly diverse enterprise IT operations and secure modern business environments – including cloud-based services as well as physical and virtual appliances. “Web Isolation is a critical innovation that is helping our customers address new types of advanced threats that target employee web browsers by protecting against malware and phishing attacks without over-blocking or impeding productivity,” said Mike Fey, Symantec President and COO. “These additions to our Web Security Service help meet the challenges of the cloud generation by protecting users and data with the most comprehensive set of cloud-delivered threat prevention capabilities on the market, all in a single-service offering.” SGN, a natural gas distribution company that distributes to more than 5.9 million homes and businesses, uses Symantec’s WSS to secure its distributed workforce.

SGN CISO, Mo Ahddoud said, “Security is of paramount importance in this industry, and with an increasingly mobile workforce, the challenge to secure employees’ devices both at work and on-the-move has never been so great. With Symantec Web Security Service, we’re able to enforce company compliance policies for all users, regardless of location or device; to support productivity and protect against evolving threats.” Jon Oltsik, senior principal analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group said, “Enterprises are wrestling with the complexity and cost of integrating improved security capabilities into their existing network stack. This challenge is heightened by the fact that so many employees work remotely or in branch offices. Symantec’s cloud-delivered Web Security Service can help address these challenges, with a comprehensive set of threat prevention, information security and cloud application control capabilities.

The new Web Isolation, endpoint integrations and SD-Cloud Connector capabilities bring additional security and simplicity benefits that many organizations will value.” As part of Symantec’s Integrated Cyber Defense Platform, Network Security for the Cloud Generation can seamlessly redirect web traffic at multiple levels, such as the endpoint, integrate intelligence from the world's largest civilian threat intelligence network, and enforce consistent security policies to help with compliance of corporate policies. Symantec’s is available now; SEP Mobile integration will be available in the third calendar quarter.

SD-WAN providers wishing to certify their product’s interoperability with the Web Security Service can find more information. About Symantec Symantec Corporation (NASDAQ: SYMC), the world's leading cyber security company, helps organizations, governments and people secure their most important data wherever it lives. Organizations across the world look to Symantec for strategic, integrated solutions to defend against sophisticated attacks across endpoints, cloud and infrastructure. Likewise, a global community of more than 50 million people and families rely on Symantec's Norton and LifeLock product suites to protect their digital lives at home and across their devices.

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Symantec has introduced new solutions intended to help organizations defend themselves from targeted attacks at the gateway, on the endpoint and in the data center. The solutions are the Disarm technology in Symantec Messaging Gateway and Network Threat Protection in Symantec Endpoint Protection for Mac computers. Nowadays, it’s not only large companies that are the target of sophisticated attacks. Even small-scale businesses which have fewer security protections are not spared from cybercriminals and threats which are growing and becoming more and more sophisticated.

Targeted attacks on businesses with 250 employees are increasing by 18% while on organizations with workers numbering more than 2,501, the threats are growing by 50%. Despite the increase in targeted attacks, organizations are failing to prevent them from happening. Citing the Horizon Breach report, Richard Velasco, Symantec’s Senior Technical Consultant for Asia South Region said that 66% of breaches or attacks remain undetected for more than a month and it will take four months for advanced threats to be remediated. It claimed that in a network, it takes 243 days before an advanced persistent threat to be detected. Symantec’s Senior Technical Consultant for Asia South Region, Richard Velasco (left) and Technical Consultant for Philippines, Christina Tee. “A key concern of Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) and IT managers today is safeguarding their organizations against evolving targeted attacks which have since become an established part of the threat landscape. The new technologies, combined with Symantec’s comprehensive solution portfolio, are designed to protect organizations in the Philippines from threats at the gateway, on the endpoint and in the data center,” said Richard Velasco, Symantec’s Senior Technical Consultant for Asia South Region.

A new innovation by the Symantec Research Labs which uses a first-of-a-kind technique to protect organizations from targeted attacks, the Disarm technology is packed with enhanced features for Symantec Messaging Gateway 10.5. The technology works by detecting and removing potentially malicious content from many common email attachments, including Microsoft Office documents and Adobe PDFs. Instead of scanning the document, it essentially makes a digital harmless carbon copy of every incoming email document/attachment, delivering this copy to the recipient, rather than the original and potentially malicious content. This way, it removes any traces of infection before the document reaches the user.

Symantec Research claimed that 98% of attacks that exploit zero-day document vulnerabilities in 2013 would have blocked by Symantec’s Disarm technology. These are attacks that were entirely unknown and have likely evaded all traditional scanners, heuristics, emulators and even Virtual Execution (VX) solutions. For endpoint protection, Symantec has developed its advanced Network Threat Protection technology for the Mac version of the Symantec Endpoint Protection 12.1.4.

Symantec claimed that it is one of the firsts to develop a protection that allows a Mac user to safely remove threats. The Network Threat Protection technology for Mac computers uses a patented, application-level, protocol-aware Intrusion Prevention System to identify and block not only known attacks, but also many unknown or day-zero attacks as well. This solution stops threats before they can implant on the system to keep data and endpoint devices such as laptops, notebooks, tablets and smartphones. It is a protection against drive-by downloads, social engineering attacks, infection detection, social media attacks and unpatched vulnerabilities. To protect the physical and virtual data center of an organization, Symantec comes up with a server lockdown solution called Symantec Critical System Protection (CSP).

Symantec Network Threat Protection

This protection technology allows known-legitimate activities on servers and blocks all other (anomalous) activities. As a security solution, CSP hardens and protects VMware infrastructure, protects domain controllers, addresses PCI compliance requirements to prevent leakage of credit card information, stops zero-day attack, and shields embedded systems like ATM. UpgradeMag.com is the Filipino’s online guide to a connected life.

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