Symantec Announces New Proactive Behavior-Based Host Intrusion Prevention Solution

Symantec Announces New Proactive Behavior-Based Host Intrusion Prevention Solution

Symantec Corp. (NASDAQ: SYMC) today announced Symantec Critical System Protection 5.0, a proactive behavior-based intrusion prevention solution for multi-layered protection of servers and critical clients running on Windows, UNIX and Linux platforms. Available later this month, Symantec Critical System Protection provides zero-day protection against application and operating system attacks, enhanced auditing and compliance enforcement, enterprise reporting capabilities, and improved manageability of heterogeneous environments from a single management console. Using a unique combination of signature and behavior-based detection, this enterprise class product helps prevent system downtime while protecting critical information assets.

“Preventing an information security breach or loss of customer data on critical systems is paramount to avoiding possible damage to a company’s brand reputation,” said Chirantan “CJ” Desai, director of product management for client and host security at Symantec. “Backed by Symantec’s global intelligence network, Symantec Critical System Protection integrates real-time behavior-based intrusion prevention with host intrusion detection to protect and respond against known and unknown attacks.”

Symantec Critical System Protection is part of a comprehensive portfolio of endpoint security for both managed and unmanaged end point devices, and enables enterprises to regain control of network security and ensure compliance across the organization. When deployed alongside Symantec Client Security or Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition, Symantec Critical System Protection specifically safeguards applications and operating systems without the need for a known signature or patch. It delivers powerful behavior-based intrusion prevention technology for network protection, exploit prevention, system control, along with system audit and alerting capabilities. Buffer overflow and memory-based attack protection provide added defense against the most sophisticated attacks, while a high-performance firewall monitors network traffic with the ability to block inbound and outbound connections by application, port, protocol and IP address range.

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