Symantec has unveiled its Endpoint Encryption 7.0, a scalable security solution that prevents unauthorised access to endpoints by delivering strong encryption and access control technologies, the security company says.
Encryption and authentication are both transparent to the end-user, performed with minimal performance impact and delivered through a central management console, enabling central deployment and management of encryption to endpoints, Symantec says.
The solution also includes support for clients not managed by Active Directory, and it includes Novell eDirectory client support as well as full management capabilities for non-domain clients.
Endpoint Encryption obscures and protects access to disk encryption keys in memory (DRAM), increasing protection against cold boot attacks, Symantec adds. For ease-of-use, the solution offers enhanced disk recovery tools for easy access to a machine and to set usage rights to further protect confidential information.
Encryption of removable media has also been enhanced, featuring support for more secure data portability options, including user-created self-extracting file archives, the company says. User certificates can be leveraged to control access to encrypted data within a specific group of users.
“As a growing array of endpoint devices are granted access to corporate resources, the need to properly ensure endpoint security and encryption on each of these endpoints is more prevalent than ever, as these technologies will help businesses mitigate the increasing risk of information loss,” says John Thomas, Endpoint business unit manager at Symantec.
Symantec Endpoint Encryption includes audit report generation capabilities to help answer regulatory requirements for proving encryption and avoiding obligatory disclosure. It does so by offering full audit trails, enforcing mandatory, company-wide security policies and mitigating risks of data loss. Symantec Endpoint Encryption 7.0 has FIPS 140-2 certification.
Customers are offered full disk and removable storage encryption capabilities, and
Symantec Endpoint Encryption is available in three formats - the combined full disk and removable storage edition, only full disk or only removable storage editions.
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