Symantec Delivers Endpoint Protection for SMBs Using the Cloud

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Comprehensive Security for Windows-Based Computers
Symantec Endpoint Protection.cloud can help your business protect its Windows-based laptops, desktops and fileservers from online threats. Its cloud-based approach requires no dedicated staffing, no hardware or management software, and it can be managed from a Web-based console. Buy now.

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Symantec Endpoint Protection.cloud provides key defenses for your small or medium-sized business. Use it to protect your endpoint systems, including desktops, laptops and file servers, with advanced technologies for antivirus, antispyware, firewall and host intrusion prevention.

Small and medium businesses (SMBs), in particular, can take advantage of cloud computing to deliver IT security — an area where SMBs often lag behind larger organizations and need help.

Symantec Endpoint Protection.cloud offers a comprehensive cloud-based security solution designed to meet the needs of SMBs by providing enterprise class security without the need for large investments in infrastructure. With no management software or hardware to deploy, Endpoint Protection.cloud offers advanced security, lower maintenance costs and predictable subscription fees that can reduce upfront expenses.

SMBs can use Endpoint Protection.cloud to leverage the Symantec Global Intelligence Network, one of the largest security research networks in the world, and benefit from its rapid threat identification and response. With Endpoint Protection.cloud, automatic security updates occur transparently over an Internet connection, enabling employee systems to stay current whether workers are in the office or on the road.

Administrators use a Web-based management console to quickly implement Endpoint Protection.cloud and easily deploy agents. They can also set custom policies in the console and receive real-time alerts via SMS or email.

Symantec Endpoint Protection.cloud helps protect Windows-based endpoint systems like file servers, laptops and desktops with advanced technologies for antivirus, antispyware, firewall and host intrusion prevention though the same Web-based management console.

The features of Symantec Endpoint Protection.cloud include:

Antivirus/ Antispyware for desktops, laptops and file servers: Blocks viruses, spyware, Trojan horses, worms, bots and rootkits
Firewall Security for laptops and desktops: Defends against hackers with a quiet two-way firewall
Host Intrusion Protection for laptops and desktops: Guards against malware attacks that exploit vulnerabilities in applications that interact over the Internet
Web Browser Security for laptops and desktops: Identifies unsafe and dangerous websites right in search results

SMBs can benefit from the cloud’s ability to provide security with predictable costs and simplified management while they enhance their security. Customers of Symantec Endpoint Protection.cloud pay a regular subscription fee that replaces upfront expenses with affordable, predictable costs. Endpoint Protection.cloud is fast to set up and implement, and can be deployed to clients via standard download, email invitation or silently pushed to the network.

Administrators benefit from pre-set security policies and report templates. Automated updates occur transparently over an Internet connection to help keep employee systems current and consistent with policies whether they are in the office or on the road – even when they’re not logged into the VPN.

Administrators can easily perform functions such as Live Updates, view history on a system and change local policy settings. The cloud-based service also records data about administrative activities such as login times, policies created and computers added. It even allows administrators to build graphical reports that are exportable to .PDF or .HTML.

The features of Symantec Endpoint Protection.cloud will appeal to all of the stakeholders in an SMB that needs to raise its level of security while controlling costs and maintaining its current levels of IT staff and infrastructure.

SMB owners and executives will find Symantec Endpoint Protection.cloud to be a cost-effective solution for endpoint protection that does not require additional management software, hardware or dedicated IT resources.

For IT Directors, Symantec Endpoint Protection.cloud offers simplified management with quick setup and implementation and a central Web-based console. The service is easy to update thanks to transparent, automatic updates that are pushed to endpoints.

End users of Symantec Endpoint Protection.cloud benefit from up-to-date protection on the road or in the office. There is no need for end users to log onto a VPN to update their policies.