Today, AV-TEST, the well-regarded independent testing organization, announced that Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) won the Best Protection 2015 Award for corporate endpoint security. As the winner, SEP was recognized for its consistently superior protection ability throughout all of 2015.
The testing evaluated the efficacy of numerous endpoint security solutions against real-world scenarios and advanced threats. Each product is subjected to over 1,000 live zero-day attacks delivered via infected websites and e-mail in order to measure a product’s complete protection ability. In addition, AV-TEST measures each security solutions’ detection of more than 150,000 current and widespread threats. What makes the 2015 award so difficult to win is the need to withstand the attackers from month to month, as they switch techniques, always trying to evade detection. Scoring a perfect “6” in a given month isn’t too difficult. The challenge is maintaining a perfect “6” consistently – this is the mark of a truly strong, superior protection product. Symantec Endpoint Protection stopped 100% of live threats, consistently scoring a perfect “6” in the protection tests over the entire year.
Symantec’s leadership and strength in endpoint security was also demonstrated in the latest Gartner Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platform released on February 3rd. In the recent report, Symantec hit another milestone by being a Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader for the 14th year in a row. In addition, we’re once again positioned the highest in the Ability to Execute. It is our belief that Symantec’s Magic Quadrant leadership position is an indication of a strong product offering that performs well in detection, protection and performance.
Today’s cyber-attacks are increasingly sophisticated, tapping into the most attractive and soft targets to infiltrate an organization’s often most vulnerable infrastructure – its endpoints. Attackers are using advanced strategies, like digitally signing their malware, and injecting threats into legitimate processes to hide them. So how do you keep your business and data safe?
At Symantec, we believe that customers need intelligent next generation threat protection, which must include the following four capabilities:
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Block the maximum number of threats proactively, e.g. without reliance on signatures
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Leverage the power of global visibility and big data to protect against cyber threats in real-time
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Detect and remediate all advanced attack campaigns
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Deploy the latest protection across all control points without compromising performance
Symantec delivers on all four of these criteria:
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Symantec Endpoint Protection stops attacks without ever having seen them before using advanced multi-dimensional machine learning algorithms that look at threat relationships, sample characteristics, web domain interactions, execution behaviors, and more; SEP also prevents unknown and zero day attacks with advanced exploit prevention and hardening.Symantec doesn’t stop at 99.99% protection – our goal is to give customers 100% protection with our layered approach that employs best of breed technologies throughout the attack path. Machine learning -based, network-based, hardening-based, and policy-based protection all work together to provide customers the best endpoint protection.
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Global intelligence and insights from the analysis of diverse threat data, and over 1,000 cyber security experts across the globe operating from 9 operations centers watching over the threat landscape 24x7x365, power all of our capabilities, leveraging hundreds of years of combined cyber security expertise and unmatched security insights for our customers.
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Symantec Endpoint Protection is a single agent on the endpoint that can deliver not only protection, but also detection and response capabilities. Customers do not need new endpoint agents when they decide to use our endpoint detection and response (EDR) technology and can leverage existing Symantec deployments.
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All this while ensuring robust deploy-ability everywhere, whether in small enterprises or large, in distributed franchise operations or in centralized environments, on fast digital networks or on low bandwidth or dark networks, and spanning all industries, government, in private or public clouds, and beyond.
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Symantec endpoint security product portfolio supports a broad range of devices across PC, Mac, Linux, Android, iOS, and even virtual machines. Symantec secures all platforms with high-performance, unobtrusive protection, with little to no threat of disruption of productivity from false positives.
As the winner of the AV-TEST Best Protection Award 2015 and as a Leader in Gartner’s Endpoint Protection Platform Magic Quadrant for 14 years, Symantec has proven our leadership in true next generation security, protecting enterprises and their information worldwide. We’re committed to continuous innovation in security and to solving new needs so our customers can focus on growing their core businesses.
To learn more about Symantec Endpoint Protection, please visit Symantec.com. You can also read the full report from the AV-TEST Institute.