{"id":34436,"date":"2019-02-18T15:43:30","date_gmt":"2019-02-18T07:43:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=34436"},"modified":"2019-02-18T15:50:49","modified_gmt":"2019-02-18T07:50:49","slug":"symantec-announces-new-endpoint-security-offerings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2019\/02\/18\/symantec-announces-new-endpoint-security-offerings\/","title":{"rendered":"Symantec announces new endpoint security offerings"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Symantec Corp. announced new innovations and enhancements to its endpoint security portfolio designed to defend against the most sophisticated cyber attacks through advanced endpoint protection and hardening capabilities. These new offerings will help customers reduce the endpoint attack surface by allowing only known good applications to run, enhancing application discovery and risk assessment, and preventing stealthy attacks.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Traditional endpoint security is effective at stopping malware, but\nsophisticated attackers are increasingly taking advantage of the complexity of\nendpoint environments, exploiting gaps to discover new paths to lucrative\ntargets. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cThe diversity and complexity of today\u2019s\nheterogeneous&nbsp;endpoint environment creates multiple opportunities for\ncyber-attacks,\u201d said&nbsp;Fernando Montenegro, Senior Analyst &#8211; Information\nSecurity, 451 Research. \u201cThe deployment of&nbsp;endpoint\nsecurity&nbsp;software&nbsp;that brings together not only prevention and EDR,\nbut also hardening technologies to further reduce the attack surface is more\nimportant than ever.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">To address these\nchallenges, Symantec incorporated advanced protection and hardening into its\nmarket-leading endpoint security solution which delivers a coordinated,\nadaptive endpoint defense that is simple for security teams to manage. This\ndefense framework reduces the attack surface and delivers protection from unauthorized\naccess, known vulnerabilities, zero-day attacks, and everything in between. &nbsp;Symantec delivers these technologies through a\nsingle agent which is managed by an integrated cloud console, lowering\ndeployment and management complexity.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Endpoint Security\nportfolio updates include:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\"><li><strong>Symantec\nEndpoint Application Control<\/strong>\ndefends against advanced attacks by only allowing known, good applications to\nrun, thus minimizing the attack surface. The industry-leading whitelisting\nsolution includes smart, auto-generation of application-specific rules,\ncomprehensive application discovery, in-depth risk assessment, and continuous\ntracking of application drift \u2013 making it easy to deploy and manage in dynamic\nendpoint environments.<\/li><li><strong>Symantec\nEndpoint Application Isolation<\/strong>\nenables users to download and use any application safely by ensuring every\napplication is restricted to safe and authorized behavior. Through enhanced\nvisibility and intelligence, suspicious applications can be isolated to prevent\nany privileged operations that can harm the endpoint. Application isolation\nwill also shield known good applications from tampering to stop attackers from\nexploiting potential vulnerabilities.&nbsp;&nbsp; <\/li><li><strong>Symantec\nEndpoint Cloud Connect Defense<\/strong>\ndelivers dynamic protection by assuring network integrity through a\npolicy-based smart VPN to defend against risky WiFi and carrier networks. This\ntechnology provides an additional layer of protection for Windows 10 devices.<\/li><li><strong>Symantec\nEndpoint Threat Defense for Active Directory<\/strong>\nhelps ensure that malicious actors on domain-connected endpoints cannot exploit\nActive Directory to gain access to critical assets. Threat Defense for AD\nrestricts post-exploit incursions by preventing credential theft and lateral movement\nwith a unique combination of AI, obfuscation and advanced forensics\nmethodologies to contain these attacks automatically, in real-time. This new\nproduct follows the <a href=\"https:\/\/investor.symantec.com\/About\/Investors\/press-releases\/press-release-details\/2018\/Symantec-Acquires-Javelin-Networks-to-Thwart-Growing-Number-of-Active-Directory-Based-Attacks\/default.aspx\">Javelin\nNetworks<\/a> acquisition, and is another example of Symantec\u2019s ability\nto quickly incorporate acquired technologies into its comprehensive portfolio.<\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These advanced endpoint protection and hardening capabilities will\nfurther extend Symantec\u2019s endpoint security leadership, which has been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.symantec.com\/products\/industry-accolades\">recognized<\/a>\nby industry analysts. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cStopping today\u2019s most sophisticated threats requires integrated layers\nof security which make it difficult for attackers to operate,\u201d said Art\nGilliland, EVP and GM Enterprise Products, Symantec. \u201cBy incorporating advanced\nprotection and hardening innovations into our endpoint portfolio, we help\nminimize the attack surface and make it more challenging to penetrate and move\nlaterally across networks, an important part of an Integrated Cyber Defense\nstrategy.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cAt Telit we are always on the lookout for new,\nexciting and effective solutions. This is why we were highly interested in\nSymantec Endpoint Threat Defense for Active Directory. After several short days\nof a proof of concept we saw the value of the solution which made the decision\nvery easy,\u201d said Mor Asher, Global IT &amp; Information Security Manger.\n&nbsp;\u201cWe quickly covered the company endpoints with a unique and effective\nsecurity layer. At almost zero impact in performance and productivity, we gain\nan important capability of addressing advanced attacks with much better tools\nin our arsenal and reduce dramatically man hours required to respond to\nincidents.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">These innovations are immediately available for\npurchase as add-ons to Symantec Endpoint Protection or as part of new suites designed\nfor easy consumption. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>These new offerings will help customers reduce the endpoint attack surface by allowing only known good applications to run, enhancing application discovery and risk assessment, and preventing stealthy attacks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":33280,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,25],"tags":[54,274],"class_list":["post-34436","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-headlines","category-software","tag-security","tag-symantec"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34436","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34436"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34436\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33280"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34436"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34436"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34436"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}