Enterprise Security is a Top Concern
According to the New York Times, cloud storage is “pretty good at keeping things safe online”, a perspective which many consumers and enterprises believe. However cloud storage is finding itself victim to attacks. For example, according to Phishlab’s 2017 Phishing Trends & Intelligence Report, most recent cyber attacks have been towards cloud storage providers such as Google and Dropbox.
Businesses nowadays have a multitude of data, tools, and utilities residing on storage devices. Backed up and archived data may contain malware. Enterprise users frequently download or share data, which could be infected, or access websites infected by malware. Workers can and do store personal as well as corporate documents within enterprise cloud storage and NAS repositories, leading to unchecked potential for threats to propagate with the transport of files.
Global Data Storage is Exploding
With the shift of IT infrastructure to off-premises, such as the cloud, and the growth of Big Data and its storage needs, the global data storage market is exploding. Widespread implementation of cloud-based CRM and ERP solutions are also driving the need for cloud storage. Total data center storage capacity will grow nearly 5-fold from 2015 to 2020, growing at 40% CAGR.
As enterprises move rapidly towards off-premises adoption, cloud data storage and also network attached storage (NAS), remains an indispensable IT need. This brings into question how safe is your cloud services and network attached storage?
Introducing Symantec Protection Engine, 7.9
What’s needed is a way to protect cloud storage and NAS, which provides security before, after, and during transfer of files to storage.
Symantec Protection Engine (SPE) is comprised of two products:
SPE for Cloud Services is a flexible and feature-rich client/server application that allows customers to incorporate malware and threat detection technologies into almost any storage service or application. Protection Engine for Cloud Services gives enterprises access to innovative security that ensures their cloud-based storage services remain free from malware, including scanning for malicious URLs.
SPE for Network Attached Storage provides scalable, high-performance threat detection services to protect valuable data stored on network attached storage (NAS) devices. It delivers improved scanning performance and detection capabilities to protect against multi-blended threats.
Protection Engine for Cloud Services and NAS Provides 3 Ways to Rethink the Security of your Cloud Services and Related Storage:
1. Reduce Your Organizational Risk Profile
For the success of your organization, preventing cloud-based applications and storage services from hosting and distributing malware becomes critical. This includes ensuring that employees are sharing information free of infections and malware. Protection Engine can track files globally and apply reputation intelligence for cloud services, hence fueling the intelligence required to reduce your organization’s risk profile, using definition based scanning.
2. Enable Industry Leading Protection
Protection Engine provides fast, scalable, and reliable anti-malware scanning with Symantec’s File Reputation Service. This service utilizes threat and reputation information from the Symantec Global Intelligence Network, which correlates data from more than 41.5 million attack sensors in 157 countries and over 13 billion web requests a day. Advanced machine learning provides best-in-class protection with low false positives.
3. Utilize Broad Storage and Platform Support
Protect a broad array of third-party applications and storage services with APIs for embeddable threat detection and anti-malware. Incorporate industry-leading malware and threat detection technologies into almost any business critical application, service, or device with the full client Software Development Kit (SDK) and native ICAP protocol support. Platform support spanning Microsoft Windows®, Red Hat® Enterprise Linux®, SUSE® Linux, and CentOS® ensures that customers can take advantage of market-leading malware detection wherever they need it.
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