Symantec Endpoint Protection product family:

Note: Shaded Area = Centrally managed via a single agent and single console.

Key Features:

• Antivirus and antispyware - Symantec Endpoint Protection provides best-of breed malware protection, including marketleading antivirus protection, enhanced spyware protection, new rootkit protection, reduced memory footprint, and new dynamic performance adjustments to keep users productive.
  
• Network threat protection - Offers a rules-based firewall engine and Generic Exploit Blocking (GEB) that blocks malware before it can enter a system.
  
• Proactive threat protection - Provides protection for unseen threats (i.e., zero day threats). Includes Proactive Threat Scan which does not rely on a signatures.
  
• Single agent and single management console - The Symantec Endpoint Protection portion of Symantec AntiVirus Enterprise Edition provides antivirus, antispyware, desktop firewall, IPS, device control, and network access control (with the purchase of a Symantec Network Access Control license) on a single agent-all managed by a single management console.
  
• Symantec AntiVirus for Linux and Macintosh - Symantec AntiVirus for Macintosh and Symantec AntiVirus for Linux remove viruses from email attachments, Internet downloads and other sources to safeguard the enterprise network.
  
• Antispam - Symantec Mail Security helps provide highperformance mail protection against virus threats, spam and security risks, and enforces company email security policies on SMTP gateways and Microsoft Exchange and IBM Domino servers. Antispam tools include heuristicbased detection, custom filtering rules, and real-time blacklisting and whitelisting.
  

Key Benefits:

• Industry-best threat landscape intelligence - Symantec’s protection mechanisms utilise the industryleading Symantec™ Global Intelligence Network to deliver an unparalleled view of the entire Internet threat landscape. This intelligence results in actionable protection and peace of mind against evolving attacks.
  
• Multi-layered defence - Includes the integrated Symantec Endpoint Protection solution for Microsoft Windows® operating systems, Symantec AntiVirus for Linux and Macintosh, and the award-winning Symantec Mail Security for SMTP, Symantec Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange, and Symantec Mail Security for Domino solutions. This combination provides heightened protection against the evolving threat landscape for multi-platform networks and protects against email-borne virus threats, spam and security risks in a turn-key package with guaranteed interoperability.
• Comprehensive protection - Integrates best-of-breed technologies to stop security threats - even the most devious new and unknown attackers - before they penetrate the network. Detects and blocks malicious software in real time, including viruses, worms, Trojan horses, spyware, adware and rootkits.
• Proactive protection - New Proactive Threat Scan uses a unique Symantec technology to score both good and bad behaviours of unknown applications, enhancing detection and reducing false positives without the need to create rules-based configurations.
• Simple - Easy to install, configure and manage—Symantec Endpoint Protection makes it easy to enable, disable, and configure desired technologies to fit into your environment.
  
• Seamless - Symantec Network Access Control ready—Each endpoint becomes “Symantec Network Access Control ready,” eliminating the need to deploy additional network access control endpoint agent software.
• Multi-tiered mail server protection - Provides best-ofbreed multi-tiered spam prevention and advanced content filtering to stop incoming spam and prevent outgoing mail from improperly transmitting proprietary data or content. The optional integrated add-on Symantec Premium AntiSpam™ service enhances spam protection and content filtering.
  

System Requirements:

Endpoint protection

Symantec Endpoint Protection Client (Protection software for server, desktop and laptop systems)

• Operating systems supported: Microsoft Windows Vista™, Microsoft Windows 2003, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows 2000 (SP3 and later)
  

Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager

• Operating systems supported: Microsoft Windows 2003, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows 2000 (SP3 and later)
  

Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager Console

• Operating systems supported: Microsoft Windows Vista, Microsoft Windows 2003, Microsoft Windows XP, Microsoft Windows 2000 (SP3 and later)
  

Symantec AntiVirus for Linux Client

• Linux distribution supported: Red Hat® Enterprise Linux, SuSE Linux Enterprise (server/desktop), Novell® Open Enterprise Server, VMWare ESX
  

Symantec AntiVirus for Macintosh Client

• Intel® or PowerPC technology–based Mac running Mac OS X 10.3 or higher
  

Symantec Administration Console (for Macintosh Client)

• Operating systems supported: Mac OS X Server 10.3 or 10.4
  
• Server requirements: Xserve G5, Xserve, Power Mac G5, Power Mac G4, Macintosh Server G4, Power Macintosh G3 (Blue & White), Macintosh Server G3 (Blue & White), iMac, eMac or Mac mini
  
• RAM: 256 MB
  
• Free disk space: 4 GB
  
• Browsers: Mac OS X 10.2.x–10.4.x, Windows XP Pro + Internet Explorer 6 SP2, Red Hat Linux + Netscape 7

Mail protection

Symantec Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange

Server installation system requirements

• Operating systems supported: Windows 2000 Server/Advanced Server/Data Center (SP4), Windows Server® 2003 Standard/Enterprise/Data Center (SP1),
  Microsoft Windows Server 2003 x64 or Windows Server 2003 R2 x64, Standard or Enterprise Edition
• Console-only installation system requirements
  
• Operating systems supported: Windows 2000 (SP4), Windows 2003 (SP1), Windows XP (SP1)

Exchange Server 2007

• x64 architecture–based computer with Intel processor that supports Intel Extended Memory 64 technology (Intel EM64T), or AMD processor that supports the AMD64 platform
  
• 2 GB RAM minimum
  

Symantec Mail Security for Domino

• Operating systems supported: Lotus® Domino Server versions 6.5.x and 7.x (Windows only)
  

Symantec Mail Security for SMTP

• Operating systems supported: Windows 2000 Server SP4,Windows Server 2003 SP1, Windows 2003 Server R2, Solaris 9, Solaris 10, Red Hat AS 3 and 4, Red Hat ES 3 and 4
  
• LDAP servers supported: Windows 2000 Active Directory®, Windows 2003 Active Directory, Sun Directory Server 5.2, Exchange 5.5, Lotus Domino LDAP Server 6.5, OpenLDAP (for authentication only)
  
• Hardware requirements: Intel Pentium 4 processor or compatible (Windows and Linux), UltraSPARC processor (Sun™ Solaris™ operating system)
  

Educational Pricing:

*Price is per license; and includes 1 year support. Minimum purchase of 5 licenses. Media available at £16.07

Basic Support (12x5)
Essential Support (24x7)

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• AntiVirus Enterprise 10.2
• AntiVirus 10.0 for Mac

• EndPoint Protection 11.0
• Multi-Tier Protection 11.0
• Mail Security 6.0 for MS Exchange
• Mail Security Enterprise 1.0
• Network Access Control 11.0 Starter Edition
• Network Access Control 11.0
• Premium Antispam (add-on)

• New - Backup Exec 12 for Windows Servers
• Backup Exec 9.2 for Netware
• New - Backup Exec System Recovery 8 Desktop Edition
• New - Backup Exec System Recovery 8 Server Edition
• New - Backup Exec System Recovery 8 Small Business Server Edition
• Replication Exec 3.1
• Storage Exec 5.5

• Ghost Solution Suite
• Symantec Brightmail AntiSpam 6.0
• pcAnywhere 12.1
• Procomm Plus for Windows 4.8

• Norton 360
• Norton AntiSpam 2005
• Norton AntiVirus 2008
• Norton Confidential
• Norton Confidential for Mac
• Norton Internet Security 2008
• Norton Internet Security for Mac 3.0
• Norton Partition Magic 8.0
• Norton Personal Firewall 2006
• Norton Personal Firewall for Mac 3.0
• Norton SystemWorks Basic 11
• Norton SystemWorks 11
• Norton SystemWorks Premier 11