Symantec Announces Advanced Threat Protection

The dark side of technological innovation and progress is the growing number of sophisticated attacks such as ransomware, remote access trojans, advanced persistent threats (APTs) and zero day attacks. With the rise in the number of advanced and complex cyber attacks, security professionals can no longer rely on using individual point products at each control point to stop them.

Symantec Corp., a California-based technology company, has for long been known as the global leader in cyber security. The company announced today Symantec Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) – the first solution that can detect and remediate advanced threats across control points, from a single console with just a click, all with no new endpoint agents to deploy.

“Symantec ATP correlates suspicious activity across all control points and prioritizes the events that pose the most risk to an organization. Once a critical threat is identified, it can now be quickly contained and new instances can be blocked”, the company said in a press release.

The latest product allows users to uncover a full range of threats, prioritize what matters most, remediate the threats fast through containment of endpoints and blocking new instances across control points, with one click, from a single console and leverage existing investments in Symantec Endpoint Security and Email Security.cloud, without deploying any new endpoint agents.

“The average enterprise uses 75 distinct security products,” Yelamanchili added. “That overload creates opportunity for attackers because it slows down detection. Symantec ATP allows security professionals to click once and remediate everywhere across all three control points.”

Symantec Advanced Threat Protection will be available by end of calendar year 2015 with starting MSRP $40 per user annually to secure one control point, $60 per user annually to secure two control points and $70 per user annually to secure three control points.