What is Symantec Data Center Security??? Symantec Data Center Security: Server & Server Advanced 6.0 represent new Symantec offerings providing security for servers in the data center. Symantec Data Center Security: Server delivers agentless malware protection for VMware® infrastructures via a security virtual appliance, and enables security policy orchestration and automated workflows within the software-defined data center (SDDC). Symantec Data Center Security: Server Advanced extends Data Center Security: Server by incorporating technologies previously known as Critical System Protection. Server Advanced provides granular, policy-based controls via a low impact in-guest agent to monitor and protect heterogeneous physical and virtual server environments. With Data Center Security: Server Advanced, organizations can Make security responsive to SDDC architectures Stop zero-day exploits and targeted attacks Secure legacy systems and mitigate patching Gain real-time visibility and control into compliance Why’s It Important By 2014, 75% of servers will be virtualized- Forrester 2013 By 2015, 40% of security controls used in Enterprise data centers will be virtualized, up from less than 5% in 2010- Gartner 2013 Servers 94% of all data compromised involved servers (+18% YoY)- Verizon 2012 - And 96% of victims subject to PCI DSS had not achieved compliance (+7%) 52% of IT executives say that most of their incidents are caused by change- Forrester 2013 Customer IT challenges and value Protecting servers against zero-day exploits and targeted attacks: Data Center Security: Server Advanced provides several strategies to protect and harden heterogeneous physical and virtual servers. Granular, policy-based controls help organizations prevent server attacks and safeguard information on these servers. Optimizing security for virtualization: Data Center Security: Server is integrated into the VMware infrastructure to provide threat protection such as agentless anti-virus, and protect vSphere with out-of-box policies that adhere to VMware’s hardening guidelines. Demonstrating compliance: Data Center Security: Server Advanced gives customers real-time visibility and control of their compliance posture. Reducing risk in protecting unpatched or legacy systems: Data Center Security: Server Advanced provides least privilege access & compensating controls to lock down server configurations/settings and mitigate breaches against potentially vulnerable systems. Should you require any further information, do feel free to email us on Swan is a 24 year old, IT infrastructure and facilities management company providing state-of-the-art IT solutions to large and medium enterprises. Swan Solutions & Services Pvt. Ltd. 403-406, Twin Complex Phase-I, Marol-Maroshi Road, Marol Naka, Opp. Marol Fire Brigade, Andheri(E), Mumbai 400059 INDIA Tel.: +91 22 6771 8011 Fax: +91 22 6771 8080 Email :web-sales@swansol.com www.swansol.com