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has announced new enhancements to its SMB Protection portfolio,
providing SMB customers with greater choice and flexibility for
protecting the information that drives their businesses. The new
Symantec Protection Suite Advanced Business Edition will provide SMBs
with complete protection, including endpoint and messaging security as
well as desktop, laptop and server backup and recovery to ensure
business continuity. Symantec is giving SMB customers more choices for
protecting their growing businesses with hosted options for e-mail and
Web security.
A Symantec survey of year 2009 found that while SMBs are familiar with
the information risks they face, a surprisingly high number have yet to
take even the most basic steps towards protecting their businesses. The
survey found that 69 percent do not have endpoint protection and 56
percent were not backing up their data.
Symantec's business edition will provide SMBs with a new level of
complete protection, helping them to safeguard their businesses from
external threats, internal threats and information loss-threats that
traditional anti-virus products cannot address. It will combine
security, backup and recovery software technologies to deliver complete
information protection and keep SMBs' desktops, servers and
applications running smoothly in case of disruption. Customers will be
proactively protected with real-time security intelligence from
Symantec Global Intelligence Network, which provides early threat
warnings and automatic backups when new threats emerge.
The business edition will simplify IT administration and will lower the
TCO by enabling SMBs to purchase and manage backup, recovery and
security for the entire organization in a single suite. The suite can
be quickly deployed with minimal disruption to a customer's IT
environment. This will give the customers flexibility to deploy SaaS
technologies with add-on options for hosted e-mail and Web security
from Symantec hosted services.
In addition, Symantec recently launched Symantec Hosted Endpoint
Protection, a new SaaS offering for SMBs who wish to deploy
comprehensive security for their computer systems without the need for
additional hardware or management software.
“SMBs today are handling valuable information and having the right
information at the right time can mean the difference between success
and going out of business. Cyber criminals are going after SMBs, and
those who are only using anti-virus as a security solution are not
protected completely, putting their businesses at risk. Today's SMBs
need complete protection that can be easily deployed and managed while
providing the highest level of protection,” said Vineet Sood,
Head-Channels and Alliances, Symantec India.