Symantec Offers Threat and Vulnerability Management Program30 June 2006
Symantec Corp. (NASDAQ: SYMC) today announcedSymantec Threat and Vulnerability Management Program that combinesunmatched Symantec security consulting expertise with Symantec globalthreat intelligence to help customers manage their security posture andprevent incidents before they happen. Symantec Threat and VulnerabilityManagement Program is a critical component of Symantec Global Services'broader agenda to help customers address IT Risk.
"Organizations are facing an increasing amount of security threats todaythat could impact their environment, jeopardize compliance, and threatentheir entire business," said Jon Oltsik, Enterprise Strategy Group. "ITManagers and administrators need the necessary tools and information toenable them to assess their current security posture and develop aconsistent, well thought-out plan and process for responding to ongoingthreats. Symantec's depth and breadth of security expertise andunderstanding of the entire current threat landscape provide customers withunique offering."
Leveraging Symantec Global Intelligence Network, Symantec Threat andVulnerability Management Program provides real-time data on vulnerabilitiescurrently being exploited and provides customers with specific guidance toproactively protect their IT environment. Through this unmatchedintelligence, customers can proactively map threats against their ownsystem vulnerabilities and prioritize their actions and remediation plansbased on their individual risk threshold. This helps to ensure businesscontinuity, higher operational efficiency and availability of systems andstaff. Symantec Threat and Vulnerability Management Program also providesmetrics to show effectiveness and an auditable trail.
In addition, as businesses are facing more rigorous industry andgovernmental regulations leading to more robust internal compliancepolicies, detailed trending and benchmarking among different parts of theorganization can be used to demonstrate due diligence in compliancepractices. Symantec Threat and Vulnerability Management Program can put theproper processes and controls in place to help customers meet thesemandates.
"Even the most disciplined organizations do not have all of the people,processes, technology and time to manage a proactive and compliant incidentresponse program," said Greg Hughes, executive vice president, SymantecGlobal Services and Support. "Symantec Threat and Vulnerability ManagementProgram will help customers design a comprehensive strategy to address avastly changing threat landscape and contribute to reducing their overallIT risk. Through Symantec's unparalleled intelligence and world classSymantec consultants, this new offering arms customers with proactive 'nextsteps' when threats and vulnerabilities are identified."
Symantec Threat and Vulnerability Management Program combines a set ofconsulting best practices derived from years of helping large, complexorganizations confront security threats and vulnerabilities in theirenvironments. Symantec is leveraging its vast experience in providingincident response services to existing customers, as well as experience indeveloping threat and vulnerability management frameworks for largemulti-national clients. Symantec built this service around the provenfour-phase framework of:
-- Assessment: Assess client's environment to better understand the organization's existing threat and vulnerability framework. Provides a report that summarizes the findings, details the organization's current security posture and its risk implications compared to industry best practices, and offers recommendations to enhance proactive protection and reduce risk.-- Design: Design a Symantec Threat and Vulnerability Management Program Framework customized to meet the customer's unique business needs, balanced with the client's budget and risk tolerance.-- Implementation: Implement Symantec Threat and Vulnerability Management Program Framework, customized to the customer's specific needs and existing resources. The underlying technology includes a powerful open-source platform, which combines enhanced notification, a knowledge base of vulnerabilities, malicious code, exploits and fixes, workflow, and a rich reporting engine for meeting compliance goals.-- Manage: Prepare a resource to act as Threat and Vulnerability Management Officer (TVMO) and position the organization to respond effectively to this role. The TVMO is responsible for coordinating the threat response across the organization. Symantec can train a client resource to act in this role or provide a Symantec Consultant to act as the TVMO on-site.
Availability
Symantec Threat and Vulnerability Management Program is currently availablethrough Symantec Global Consulting Services in North America (US & Canada)and EMEA.
About Symantec
Symantec is the world leader in providing solutions to help individuals andenterprises assure the security, availability, and integrity of theirinformation. Headquartered in Cupertino, Calif., Symantec has operationsin more than 40 countries. More information is available atwww.symantec.com.
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