Symantec Protection Suite Enterprise Edition 4.0
General Availability: July 05, 2011
What does this product do?
Symantec Protection Suite Enterprise Edition is powered with Symantec Insight and protects with the industry’s fastest, most-effective endpoint security, combined with industry-leading messaging protection and innovative Web security.
Powerful, centralized visibility and control are achieved with Symantec™ Protection Center enabling policy enforcement, consolidated reporting, and real-time intelligence to increase security posture while reducing upfront and on-going costs.
Key Product Features (What’s new from last version)
Symantec Protection Suite Enterprise Edition 4.0 (SPS EE 4.0) adds the following new capabilities:
o Symantec Endpoint Protection, includes Symantec Insight Technology for the fastest, most effective security
o Symantec System Recovery Desktop Edition, quickly recovers files, folders, or entire Windows systems in minutes
o Symantec Protection Center provides integrated, centralized security management
o New versions of Symantec’s best-in-class messaging and web security solutions
SPS EE 4.0 now offers In-Product Licensing (IPL) for the Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) & Symantec Network Access Control (SNAC) 12.1 components only:
o New feature in both SEP and SNAC for adding new licenses into SEPM
o Advocated as primary mode for license import
o .slf files are secondary, as back up
o Users can enter their maintenance/content serial number(s) into SEPM. SEPM will download the license content from licensing server.
o Multiple serial numbers can be entered in one session
Detailed Functionality
Symantec Protection Suite Enterprise Edition’s unparalleled combination of award-winning technologies from the world leader in security and data protection enables you to comprehensively protect, intelligently manage, and automatically control the assets most crucial to your business—while reducing upfront and on-going costs.
Fastest, Most Effective Security
o Powered with Symantec™ Insight, you can now confidently protect your infrastructure with industry -leading endpoint security, messaging and Web security, and data protection solutions built to secure your physical and virtual environments
Central Intelligence and Management
o Efficiently manage your security with Symantec™ Protection Center, the unifying foundation for consolidated visibility, cross-product reporting, and real-time actionable intelligence across protection technologies
More Protection, For Less
o Increase the security posture across your IT infrastructure, while reducing upfront and on-going IT costs and forcing out unnecessary complexity
Symantec Protection Suite Enterprise Edition 4.0 includes:
o Symantec™ Endpoint Protection 12.1
o Symantec™ Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange 6.5
o Symantec™ Mail Security for Domino 8.0
o Symantec™ Messaging Gateway 9.5
o Symantec™ Web Gateway 5.0
o Symantec™ System Recovery 2011 (Desktop Edition only)
o Symantec™ Network Access Control 12.1 (Self – Enforcement)
o Symantec™ Workflow 7.1
o IT Analytics 7.1