Symantec launches Endpoint Protection 12
August 24, 2011 11:47 am
Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq:SYMC) today announced the availability of Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 as well as results form independent tests demonstrating that the product outperforms the competition in both virtual and physical environments, providing unrivaled protection and blazingly fast performance. According to Symantec’s Internet Security Threat report, attackers unleashed more than 286 million distinct malicious programs in 2010, creating a challenge for traditional signature- based security solutions that can’t keep up with this volume of attacks. Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 and Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition are now available to combat the sheer volume of sophisticated attacks targeting organizations of all sizes today.
These tests evaluated products in both virtual environments, particularly highly consolidated virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environments, as well as physical environments. Recent resting performed by Dennis Labs demonstrates that Symantec Endpoint 12 running in a VDI environment defended against more real- world threats than comparable solutions from McAfee and Trend Micro. In addition, the Tolly Group measured the performance of these solutions in VDI environments, determining that Symantec completes an on- demand scan in about half the time with 49 percent less disk bandwidth when compared to solutions from McAfee and Trend Micro. In addition, Symantec Endpoint Protection required 20 percent less disk bandwidth when performing on- access scanning compared to Trend Micro’s agent-less Deep Security solution.
In real world security tests performed by Av- Test.org in physical environments, Symantec protected better than comparable solutions from Kaspersky, McAfee, Microsoft, Sophos and Trend Micro. In recent Passmark Software Performance Benchmarks, Symantec Endpoint Protection12 performed faster than competing solutions from Kaspersky, McAfee, Microsoft, Sophos and Trend Micro. Passmark conducted the same evaluation for Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition against comparable solutions from ESET, Kaspersky, McAfee and Trend Micro; again, Symantec received the top performance scores.
To provide an unmatched protection against today’s sophisticated threat landscape, Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 uses Insight, Symantec’s award- winning community and cloud- based reputation technology, to detect and block new threats earlier and more accurately than any other corporate security product. Symantce Endpoint Protection12 also leverages Insight to reduce the overhead of virus scanning by as much as 70 percent by automatically identifying and white listing Symantec- trusted high- reputation files, eliminating significant scanning activity form each endpoint. In addition, SONAR, the world’s first hybrid behavioral- reputation engine, monitors running applications for suspicious behaviors to block zero- day and highly targeted threats in real- time. Symantec’s intrusion prevention system (IPS) technology blocks attacks at the network layer, before they can do damage to a computer. Together, these technologies make Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 the fastest, most effective, corporate endpoint security product on the market.
These tests evaluated products in both virtual environments, particularly highly consolidated virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI) environments, as well as physical environments. Recent resting performed by Dennis Labs demonstrates that Symantec Endpoint 12 running in a VDI environment defended against more real- world threats than comparable solutions from McAfee and Trend Micro. In addition, the Tolly Group measured the performance of these solutions in VDI environments, determining that Symantec completes an on- demand scan in about half the time with 49 percent less disk bandwidth when compared to solutions from McAfee and Trend Micro. In addition, Symantec Endpoint Protection required 20 percent less disk bandwidth when performing on- access scanning compared to Trend Micro’s agent-less Deep Security solution.
In real world security tests performed by Av- Test.org in physical environments, Symantec protected better than comparable solutions from Kaspersky, McAfee, Microsoft, Sophos and Trend Micro. In recent Passmark Software Performance Benchmarks, Symantec Endpoint Protection12 performed faster than competing solutions from Kaspersky, McAfee, Microsoft, Sophos and Trend Micro. Passmark conducted the same evaluation for Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition against comparable solutions from ESET, Kaspersky, McAfee and Trend Micro; again, Symantec received the top performance scores.
To provide an unmatched protection against today’s sophisticated threat landscape, Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 uses Insight, Symantec’s award- winning community and cloud- based reputation technology, to detect and block new threats earlier and more accurately than any other corporate security product. Symantce Endpoint Protection12 also leverages Insight to reduce the overhead of virus scanning by as much as 70 percent by automatically identifying and white listing Symantec- trusted high- reputation files, eliminating significant scanning activity form each endpoint. In addition, SONAR, the world’s first hybrid behavioral- reputation engine, monitors running applications for suspicious behaviors to block zero- day and highly targeted threats in real- time. Symantec’s intrusion prevention system (IPS) technology blocks attacks at the network layer, before they can do damage to a computer. Together, these technologies make Symantec Endpoint Protection 12 the fastest, most effective, corporate endpoint security product on the market.
