Symantec Corp. today announced it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc in the Leaders quadrant in the following reports:
* 2010 Magic Quadrant for Secure E-Mail Gateways[1]
* 2010 Magic Quadrant for Security Information and Event Management[2]
* 2010 Magic Quadrant for Content-Aware Data Loss Prevention[3]
The Magic Quadrant positions vendors based on their ability to execute and completeness of vision.
“The depth and breadth of Symantec's security portfolio gives our customers confidence in their ability to protect information throughout their environments,” said Gordon Love, regional director for Africa, Symantec.
“By being named a leader in these three security technologies, we believe Symantec provides customers with the tools they require to keep operations up and running while cost-effectively minimising IT risks.”
E-mail security from Symantec
Symantec Brightmail Gateway leverages the depth and breadth of the Symantec Global Intelligence Network, and catches more than 99% of spam [4] with less than one in a million false positives to deliver inbound and outbound messaging security, with effective and accurate real-time anti-spam and anti-virus protection, advanced content filtering, data loss prevention, and e-mail encryption.
Symantec Brightmail Gateway, also a part of Symantec Protection Suite Enterprise Family and Symantec Protection Suite Advanced Business Edition, offers a new premium add-on service, Symantec Content Encryption, that integrates the powerful advanced content filtering and data loss prevention policies of Brightmail Gateway with a hosted encryption service to allow customers to encrypt sensitive outbound e-mail without managing any additional infrastructure.
On the hosted e-mail security front, Symantec offers MessageLabs Hosted Email Security, which combines advanced e-mail anti-virus, anti-spam, and content filtering capabilities delivered across a globally integrated infrastructure in an easy to manage solution that requires no on-site hardware or software. Part of an integrated approach to securing and managing e-mail, Web, and instant messaging traffic, MessageLabs Hosted Email Security has industry-leading service level agreements (SLAs) that cover 100% protection against known and unknown viruses, 99% spam capture rate and 100% service uptime and includes 24x7 global customer support through a dedicated team of hosted services specialists.
Security information and event management from Symantec
Symantec Security Information Manager enables a documented, repeatable process for security threat response and IT policy compliance via integrated log management and incident response solutions.
Real-time comprehensive correlation of malicious security activities includes Symantec's unique global security intelligence to make it the platform for a world-class threat monitoring and response system.
Symantec Security Information Manager is designed to deliver proactive security protection, helping organisations effectively demonstrate compliance and reduce overall security risk.
Data Loss Prevention from Symantec
Symantec Data Loss Prevention helps organisations measurably reduce their risk of data breaches, demonstrate regulatory compliance and safeguard their customers, brand and intellectual property. Symantec delivers a unified, content-aware data loss prevention solution that discovers, monitors and protects confidential data.
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[1] Gartner, Inc “Magic Quadrant for Secure E-Mail Gateways,” by Peter Firstbrook and Eric Ouellet, 27 April 2010
2 Gartner, Inc “Magic Quadrant for Security Information and Event Management,” by Mark Nicolett and Kelly M Kavanaugh, 13 May 2010
3 Gartner, Inc "Magic Quadrant for Content-Aware Data Loss Prevention," by Eric Ouellet and Paul E Proctor, 2 June 2010
4 Confirmed per Virus Bulletin July 2010 results: http://www.virusbtn.com/vbspam/index
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