Symantec anti-Virus firewall and Intrusion detection scheme

Integrated Client Security Product requirements

The complexity of threats to IT infrastructure is increasing. Hybrid threats, such as Nimda and red code, that combine the characteristics of viruses, worms, Trojans, and/or malicious code with methods that exploit server and Internet vulnerabilities to initiate, send, and propagate attacks. To protect against these threats, network administrators are deploying single point products, such as antivirus and firewalls, on enterprise-wide clients, as well as an increasing number of remote clients connected to the enterprise LAN or WAN.

Using multiple, single point products from different vendors makes total protection a very complex and even impossible task, because interoperability issues across vendors often have vulnerabilities that can compromise security by taking advantage of threats. In addition, when a virus occurs, the repair scheme provided by each vendor must be tested and validated against various technologies. This reduces the response rate to the attack and potentially increases the cost. It turns out that if you don't integrate multiple single point products, you can't manage them effectively, increasing management and support costs and overall purchase costs.

Comprehensive protection and efficient management

The SYMANTECTM client security has integrated network and remote client safety features into one solution. It does not have interoperability issues and provides customers with more aggressive defense capabilities, including mixed threats, by integrating Symantec's long-standing reputation for antivirus, firewall, and intrusion detection technologies. Multiple integration technologies from one vendor make collaborative management and responsiveness possible, increasing protection, reducing management and support costs, and reducing overall purchase costs.

Integrated security Management

Integrated security management through Symantec's proven architecture-Symantec System Center-provides comprehensive anti-virus, firewall, and intrusion detection capabilities. This provides advanced security management and simplifies the security management process for complex threats to each client (including remote users) within the corporate network. This approach optimizes administrator resources because installation, reporting, and updating can be done from a single console. Management features include:

Integrated management-using the Symantec System Center, administrators can fully configure, install, manage, and update client viruses, firewalls, and intrusion detection capabilities from a single console. Administrators can also use the Symantec System Center console to configure, deploy, and execute enterprise network policies.

Logical group Management--symantec Client Security to create and manage groups of logically divided clients and servers in a server group. This is especially true for organizations that need to manage the same functional entities in the same way, reducing the number of parent servers needed to manage different client groups.

Easy to install--symantec PACKAGERTM the ability to pre-configured antivirus, firewall, and intrusion-detection installation packages to maximize deployment flexibility and minimize deployment costs. There are three preconfigured deployment options available: Overall management, simple management, and thin clients.