Symantec Endpoint Protection

Symantec Endpoint Protection

Overview

Symantec Endpoint Protection is a powerful, cross-platform security solution designed to protect your computer systems against today's most advanced threats. It combines industry-leading antivirus and anti-malware protection with advanced features such as firewall, intrusion prevention, and web security to protect desktops, laptops, and servers from viruses, worms, Trojans and other malicious code. It is now developed by Broadcom, which acquired Symantec's enterprise security business in 2019, and is sold to organizations with clients for Windows, macOS and Linux.

Symantec Endpoint Protection provides comprehensive threat protection against malware, ransomware, and other advanced threats.

Features

• Comprehensive Protection - Symantec Endpoint Protection provides comprehensive protection for desktops, laptops, and servers. It combines industry-leading antivirus and anti-malware protection with advanced features such as firewall, intrusion prevention, and application and device control.

• Proactive Threat Detection - Symantec Endpoint Protection's advanced machine learning and SONAR behavioral analysis detect and block today's most sophisticated threats, including zero-day threats.

• Cloud-based Security - Symantec Endpoint Protection's cloud-based security technology includes real-time updates and cloud-based Insight reputation analysis to detect and block the latest threats.

• Host Integrity - Symantec Endpoint Protection's Host Integrity policies check that client computers run the required software, patches and settings, and can restrict clients that fail the checks.

• Intrusion Prevention - Symantec Endpoint Protection's network and browser intrusion prevention inspects traffic and blocks exploit attempts and malicious websites before they can reach the system.

• Application Control - Symantec Endpoint Protection's Application Control feature helps protect your system from malicious applications by controlling the execution of applications on the system.

• Device Control - Symantec Endpoint Protection's Device Control feature helps protect your system from malicious devices by controlling access to USB, CD/DVD, and other storage devices.

• Memory Exploit Mitigation - Symantec Endpoint Protection's Memory Exploit Mitigation blocks exploit techniques that attackers use against vulnerabilities in popular applications.

• System Lockdown - Symantec Endpoint Protection's System Lockdown feature helps protect your system from malicious code by allowing only approved applications to run.

• Download Insight - Symantec Endpoint Protection's Download Insight checks the reputation of newly downloaded files and blocks or quarantines untrusted ones before they run.

• Firewall - Symantec Endpoint Protection's rule-based firewall controls inbound and outbound traffic per application, port and network location, protecting the system on any network.

• Tamper Protection - Symantec Endpoint Protection's Tamper Protection prevents malware and unauthorized users from stopping or modifying Symantec processes, files and registry settings.

• Central Management - Symantec Endpoint Protection is managed centrally from Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager, where administrators deploy clients, set policies per group and review reports.

• Flexible Client Types - Symantec Endpoint Protection offers Standard, Embedded/VDI and Dark Network installation types for desktops, virtual desktops and isolated networks.