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Symantec™ Host Intrusion Detection System helps reduce costly down-
time and maintain business productivity and goodwill by monitoring
systems to detect signs of misuse and prevent security problems.
Symantec Intruder Alert™ is a host-based, real-time intrusion detection
system that detects security breaches and automatically responds to
incidents according to pre-established security policies.
Symantec ManHunt™ delivers advanced intrusion detection, real-time
threat analysis and information organizations need to protect networks
against intrusion and denial of service attacks.
Symantec™ Decoy Server provides early detection of system misuse and
unauthorized access to provide enterprises with cost-effective prioritiza-
tion of threats in an easy-to-deploy, manageable solution.
Security Management At the gateway and server level, our policy
compliance management products find system vulnerabilities and help
to ensure security policy compliance to proactively reduce business
risk. The initial step to reduce corporate risk is to effectively measure
compliance to a business’ security policy and detect vulnerabilities
where critical information resides. It is important to understand the
effectiveness of a security policy in order to properly define, manage
and enforce business policies and assess possible threats.
Symantec Enterprise Security Manager™ enables automated discovery
of security vulnerabilities and deviations from security policies in mis-
sion critical e-business applications and servers across the enterprise
from a single location.
Symantec NetRecon™ provides network vulnerability assessment with
progressive scanning technology. Its unique root-cause analysis engine
helps organizations pinpoint the exact source of vulnerabilities.
Symantec™ Security Management System is a comprehensive solution
allowing for the consolidation of security events, the containment of
security threats and the centralization of security policy enforcement.
Symantec Security Management System is built on an open, inter-
operable framework that enables us and third-party solutions to work
together to provide secure, manageable, and scalable enterprise
security. Symantec Security Management System includes Symantec
Enterprise Security Manager and the following components:
Symantec™ Event Manager for firewall and antivirus provides central-
ized logging, alerting, and reporting across Symantec’s enterprise fire-
wall and virus protection solutions and select key third-party firewall,
antivirus and management products.
Symantec™ Incident Manager centrally identifies, prioritizes, and coor-
dinates resolution of security incidents, helping enterprises maximize
the value of their security technologies, reduce risk, and control costs.
Integrated Solutions An integrated solution combines multiple secu-
rity technologies with management, customer service and support, and
advance research. By combining multiple security functions, integrated
solutions can more efficiently protect against a variety of threats at
each tier to minimize the effects of network attacks.
Symantec™ Gateway Security appliance is a comprehensive gateway
protection solution that combines six essential network security func-
tions in a single, easy-to-manage appliance. The fully integrated unit
allows small- and medium-sized offices to address today’s multi-faceted
security threats with a combination of firewall, antivirus, Web content
filtering, intrusion prevention, intrusion detection, and VPN technologies.
Symantec™ Client Security provides protection at the client against
blended threats, which are threats that are multi-faceted in their oper-
ating methods and effects, by integrating antivirus, firewall and intru-
sion detection technologies through centralized management and
response.
Early Warning Solutions Symantec’s early warning solutions provide
organizations with customized and comprehensive alerts of cyber attacks
worldwide, with countermeasures to prevent attacks before they occur,
enabling them to mitigate risk and manage threats. These solutions are
supported by Symantec™ Security Response, our Internet security
research and support organization.
Symantec DeepSight™ Alert Services deliver personalized vulnerability
and malicious code alerts, providing information to help users mitigate
vulnerabilities before they can be exploited.
Symantec DeepSight™ Threat Management System tracks global secu-
rity threats, providing early warning of active attacks to help protect
critical information assets.
ENTERPRISE ADMINISTRATION
Our Enterprise Administration segment offers products that enable
companies to be more effective and efficient within their information
technology departments. Remote management solutions help profes-
sionals remain productive while away from the office and also provide
companies access to information, applications and data from any loca-
tion. PC management solutions help professionals reduce their total
cost of ownership by providing a full range of management tools for
their software and hardware assets. Our Enterprise Administration seg-
ment represented approximately 15%, 21% and 27% of net revenues
during fiscal 2003, 2002 and 2001, respectively.
Symantec pcAnywhere™ offers secure, reliable, fast and flexible point-
to-point remote computing via a multitude of communications media
including Internet, serial, LAN, ISDN, DSL, cable modems and infrared.
Symantec pcAnywhere enables a remote PC user to control and transfer
data to and from a host PC. In addition, the remote PC, laptop or PC
terminal controls the operation of the often-distant host PC and allows
users at the host machine to view the operations being conducted from
the remote site.
Symantec Ghost™ Corporate Edition is a management solution for PC
deployment, recovery, disk cloning and migration. It reduces informa-
tion technology costs by streamlining the configuration of networked
workstations.