Managing Your Company's Cyber Risk: Antivirus Software And Endpoint Protection

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., April 25, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Nine new threats every second, every day - that's 286 million distinct malicious programs lurking about last year alone. Yet it only takes just one trojan, one virus, one malicious little program to compromise a company's entire system. While signature-based security solutions may have once halted the risk, today's threats have metamorphosed into sophisticated, rapidly mutating attacks that can evade reactive security solutions. The advent of easy-to-use attack toolkits (responsible for at least 61 percent of threat activity), not to mention drive-by downloads, zero-day attacks and mutating spyware, means that antivirus software alone is no longer enough.

Cyber attacks are growing - growing in cost, growing in scope and growing in sophistication - putting companies of all sizes at risk. In fact, Symantec's Managed Security in the Enterprisereport found that 88 percent of the 1,000 enterprise security practitioners surveyed experienced cyber attacks in the past two years, with 30 percent rating these attacks as somewhat or highly effective. Ninety-seven percent experienced some sort of loss, including:

-- Downtime - 46% -- Theft of customer or employee personally identifiable information - 31% -- Theft of corporate data - 25%

Companies looking for antivirus software with advanced threat prevention that protects endpoints from targeted attacks need to consider comprehensive endpoint security solutions that ward off high-impact risks, while improving efficiencies and lowering costs in this new threat landscape. Powered by Insight, Symantec Endpoint Protection 12.1 is designed to stop new and rapidly mutating threats without slowing you down. Symantec Endpoint Protection delivers an unmatched defense against malware for laptops, desktops and servers. Key features include:

-- Seamless integration of antivirus, antispyware, firewall, intrusion prevention, device and application control -- A single agent that is administered by a single management console -- Powerful central management of security on Windows and Macintosh endpoints -- Enabling of instant NAC upgrade without additional software deployment -- Antivirus and antispyware for Macintosh and Linux clients -- Physical and virtual environment security

Symantec Endpoint Protection is the flagship of Symantec's growing family of endpoint protection solutions including, Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition and Symantec Endpoint Protection.cloud.

As the number and sophistication of web-based viruses and malicious code increases, Symantec Endpoint Protection offers organizations an advanced antivirus solution with threat protection, while helping to reduce administrative overhead and lower total cost of ownership for endpoint security. Visit http://www.symantec.com/business/endpoint-protection to learn more.