CYBERSECURITY firm Symantec Corp. announced on Friday a software that detects and fixes advanced threats across control points with a click from a console, requiring no new endpoint.
Symantec Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) provides enterprise a one-step protection,” according to Tan Yuh Woei, Symantec senior director for Association of Southeast Asian Nations (Asean).
With a single click from a console, this pioneering security solution simplifies the process required in securing information, Tan said at a news briefing on November 27.
“Before, a security professional would need to manually check to see if a suspicious file was properly blocked,” Balaji Yelamanchili, Symantec Enterprise Security Business vice president and general manager, said.
With SATP, which binds Symantec’s Synapse and Cynic technologies, “we do the legwork for customers, cutting down on their search and remediation time,” he added.
Synapse is a tool that collects and correlates suspicious incidence across endpoints, networks and e-mail gateways, prioritizing response to most critical threats.
Cynic, on the other hand, is a cloud-based sandboxing and payload detonation tool that tracks events and expedites response to similar threats.
As soon as a critical threat is identified, ATP prompts action to contain it and future attempts of breach are blocked.
As advanced threat landscape continues to rise, cybersecurity is becoming a top priority for enterprises and governments across the world, Tan said.
Symantec’s announcement came two months after the International Data Corp. said worldwide purpose-built backup appliance (PBBA) factory revenues declined 1 percent year-over-year, totaling $781.6 million in the second quarter. In that quarter, Symantec trailed EMC Corp. in the overall PBBA market with 13.4-percent share.
“Buying technologies alone does not solve the problem,” Tan said.
According to Yelamanchili, using several security solutions at a time can compromise data since employing multiple security software “slows down detection,” allowing attackers more time to penetrate infrastructure.
An enterprise requires competent people to operate security solution 24/7 to effectively secure information, Woei said.
He stressed the need to raise the enterprise’s weakest link’s awareness on cybersecurity, noting that technology and people working side by side is one of the keys to effectively safeguard data.
“Security professionals are constantly on their toes trying to monitor and prevent the next attack,” Michael A. Brown, Symantec president and CEO, said in a statement.
“We’re moving the industry forward with Symantec ATP by giving customers a complete picture of their entire enterprise form a single console,” Brown said. “Now they can filter the noise and quickly discover and remediate an attack.” The company’s extensive and updated global threat intelligence, which incorporates valuable data from companies, could be used in the evaluation of critical advanced threats, Woei said.
Symantec Corp., which posted a $898-million profit for 2014, provides data security solutions to banks and other enterprises in the country and across the globe.
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