Symantec - Enterprise Software

Enterprise Software

Approximately two-thirds of the company's revenue is derived from software designed for companies and large organizations, i.e., enterprise software.

Symantec substantially grew its enterprise business when it acquired VERITAS Software. Its Flagship enterprise security software are End Point Security and Protection Suite (Small Business Edition) for five or more users.

End Point security has continuous update capability as well as user defined update schedule. Furthermore it has proactive intrusion prevention capability, malware, spam protection and content filtering. The latest version of Symantec Endpoint Protection is 12.1.

Protection Suite (Small Business Edition) is tailored for small business with minimal to almost no IT staff at affordable price levels. The package includes End Point security, as well as system backup and recovery. The system backup and recovery complements Ghost solution suite. In small business, the system backup and recovery works better for PC and system protection and Ghost from minimal technical expertise point of view. The suite also has some Exchange protection features. The protection suite 4 has a tool to remove malware from infected PCs. Reference: Symantec product specification.

As of September 25, 2011 the latest released version of Small Business protection suite is 4. There are many fraudulent emails claiming to offer free upgrades to version 4.

Symantec is also monitoring the Internet with the Symantec Global Intelligence Network, Deepsight, and publish an annual free report Internet Security Threat Report. This continuous threats knowledge is permitting Symantec to propose managed security services, from their Security Operations Center.

Symantec propose Enterprises to:

• Develop and Enforce IT Policies with Control Compliance Suite
• Protect Information with Data Loss Prevention Suite and Encryption (alias PGP)
• Authenticate Identities with VeriSign Identify and Authentication
• Manage Systems with Altiris IT Management Suite
• Protect the Infrastructure with Symantec Protection Suite (including SEP, ex-SAV: Symantec Antivirus, but also BackupExec from Veritas)

And is currently extending to cover Mobile and virtualization (with cloud computing evolution).