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antivirus software to find and repair risks. In the Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition, the administrator must regularly distribute updated definition files to the servers and clients of the Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition. Definition files contain protection for all the latest viruses, worms, Trojans and security risks. Voice first A functionality that allows the host and remote users have a voice conversation before beginning a data session. Use voice first when you have only one phone line and want to speak with the other user before starting the session.

• Allows an attacker to execute commands as another user
• Allows an attacker to access data that is contrary to the specified access restrictions for that data
• Allows an attacker to pose as another entity
• Allows an attacker to conduct a denial of service

*Source: CVE Web site Vulnerability assessment The identification and quantification of a system's technical and environmental vulnerabilities. Vulnerability Management The practice of identifying and removing weaknesses that can be used to compromise the confidentiality, integrity, or availability of a computer information asset. A vulnerability management is a preventative information security practice that identifies and removes weaknesses before they can be used to compromise a computer information asset. Vulnerability measure A quantitative measurement of vulnerability. Symantec Risk Assessor measures each vulnerability through its physical exposure, electronic exposure, potential damage, age, and information. Vulnerability measure factors The elements used to calculate the danger posed by a vulnerability (vulnerability measure). Each vulnerability is rated in terms of its physical exposure, electronic exposure, potential damage, information, and age. Warning A message that informs the user that performing an action can or will result in data loss on the user's system. Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM) A set of management and Internet standard technologies developed to unify the management of enterprise computing environments. WBEM enables the industry to deliver a well-integrated set of standards-based management tools that leverage emerging Web technologies. Wild The wild component measures the extent to which a virus is already spreading among computer users. This measurement includes the number of infected independent sites and computers, the geographic distribution of infection, the ability of current technology to combat the threat, and the complexity of the virus. Wildcard A symbol that enables multiple matching values to be returned based on a shared feature. The script language has two wildcards:

1. The question mark ( ) stands for any single character.
2. The asterisk (*) stands for any character string of any length.

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1. A networked computer that uses server resources.

A computer that is connected to a mainframe computer. It is usually a personal computer connected to a Local Area Network (LAN), which shares the resources of one or more large computers. Workstations differ from terminals or dumb terminals in that they can be used independently of the mainframe. Also, they can have their own applications installed, as well as their own hard disks.

• A type of computer that requires a significant amount of computing power and that can produce high-quality graphics.

Zoo A threat that exists only in virus and antivirus labs, not in the wild. Most zoo threats never get released into the wild, and as a result, rarely threaten users. Viruses and Risks - Online Threats - Virus Protection | Security Response Email Use Basic Caution LOW RISK Use Basic Caution No significant threats. Users are advised to use basic caution when handling emails. Although no noteworthy email is currently circulating, many malicious emails continue to be distributed on a daily basis. Web Activities Users are advised to use basic caution when browsing the web. Although no noteworthy attacks are being carried out, the web remains an extremely popular means of attack. Instant Messaging No significant threats Users are advised to use basic caution when carrying out activities using instant messengers. Although no noteworthy attacks are being carried out, instant messengers remain a popular means of attack. File Sharing Users are advised to use basic caution when carrying out activities using peer-to-peer applications. Although no noteworthy attacks are being carried out, peer-to-peer protocols remain a popular means of attack. How They Attack Threats today have become more complicated. They tend to use multiple vectors to spread, thus increasing their chances of infection. Once on the system, these threats tend to show little to no symptoms so they can survive undetected. vulnerabilities spyware spam malware phishing What is Cybercrime Over the last 18 months, an ominous change has swept across the Internet. The tools driving the new attacks and fueling the blackmarket are crimeware - bots, Trojan horses, and spyware. Cybercrime Stories Are you like Sandra E

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The rapid growth of electronic mail threatens to overwhelm today s enterprises. While email plays an essential role in improving workforce productivity, it also creates a glut of information for most organizations and a storage nightmare for IT departments. This podcast looks at why enterprises should consider establishing a resilient framework for the efficient retention and retrieval of email. laptop battery

Symantec Family Online Safety Guide Wins 2008 iParenting Media Award PRINT THIS PAGE Press Release Press Releases Symantec Perspectives Social Media Center Media Resources Media Contacts Symantec Family Online Safety Guide Wins 2008 iParenting Media Award

Spanish-Language Edition Now Available for 2008 CUPERTINO, Calif. Feb. 20, 2008 Symantec (Nasdaq: SYMC), makers of Norton security software, announced today that the Norton Family Online Safety Guide was awarded the iParenting Media Award in the Best Book category. Written by Internet Safety Advocate Marian Merritt with a foreword from Lauren Nelson, Miss America 2007, the free educational guide, which launched last summer, provides practical tips for parents and educators on how to keep children safe on the Internet. Due to the guide overwhelming popularity, the guide has now been translated for Spanish-speaking families and educators. thinkpad

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According to one reviewer from the iParenting Media Awards Program, the Norton Family Online Safety Guide is, book that all parents should have as a reference. /p e e thrilled iParenting has honored the Norton Family Online Safety Guide with a 2008 Best Products award, said Marian Merritt, Symantec Internet Safety Advocate. he Norton Family Online Safety Guide provides the information, tools and practical advice that parents need to navigate important safety issues facing their Internet-savvy children. /a laptop computers

To build on the successful launch of the Norton Family Online Safety Guide, a new Spanish-language edition is now available. The Spanish and English versions can be downloaded for free at the Norton Family Resources Web site at www.norton.com/familyresources, which offers additional tips and information on a broad array of Internet safety topics, including cyber bullying, social networking and online identity theft. Visitors to the site can submit questions about the Internet and technology to Marian Merritt. The Norton Family Resources Web site also includes information on Norton solutions, like Norton 360, which can help keep families and the valuable data they store on their PCs secure. laptop computer

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Podcast Symantec Home and Home Office Security Report for June 2006

A Symantec Security Response podcast focused on the Symantec Home and Home Office Security Report for June 2006. The goal of this podcast is to help you better understand some of the threats and trends identified in the report and to help educate home and home office users on how to protect themselves. notebooks

Thomas Kendra Group President, Security and Data Management Group

Tom Kendra has served as group president of the Security and Data Management Group since April 2007. In this role he leads product management, engineering, alliances and business development for a wide range of products that help customers to lower risk around security, compliance and data management. lenovo

From May 2006 to April 2007, Mr. Kendra served as Symantec group president, Worldwide Sales and Services. During this time he led the successful integration of the Symantec and Veritas sales, channel and support organizations, one of the largest sales force mergers in the industry. Prior to this role, Mr. Kendra served as both executive vice president and senior vice president of Symantec Worldwide Sales and Services organization. hard drive

Kendra joined Symantec after a 26-year career at IBM, a global information technology company where he was a member of IBM senior leadership team. There he held multiple roles, from overseeing the company worldwide competitive and server sales to leading sales, services, marketing and channel operations for IBM software business in Asia Pacific. During this time he resided in Tokyo, Japan. travelstar

Kendra is currently on the board of directors of RightNow Technologies and serves on their audit committee. Previously he served as Chairman of the Board of Singalab, a systems integration firm located in Singapore. He received a Bachelor of Arts in Business Administration from Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. gateway

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The Symantec Podcast Program is our online portal designed specifically to host and deliver podcasts to our broad range of customers. Podcasts provide Symantec a new and different vehicle to deliver current security and availability related information in a format that suits the ever changing needs of our customers. hard drives

Customers can subscribe, download or listen to Symantec podcasts at their leisure. The Symantec Podcast Program is a free service, available to anyone interested in receiving the information we provide. electronics

It very easy to listen to a Symantec podcast over the Internet. Simply click on the any of our listed podcasts, and look for the Listen heading on the individual podcast page. Below the heading, you will see the built in media player, click on the play button and wait for the audio stream to begin. canon

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With increasing amounts of an organization s critical information residing in or passing through the messaging system, email has become a mission-critical business application. In addition to the increase in volume of the messages used in business transactions, ever-increasing threats, including viruses, worms and spam is causing a dramatic rise in the costs required to protect system uptime and data. keyboard

Symantec s Messaging Management solution helps organizations reduce the cost of infrastructure and administrating the messaging system, such as Microsoft Exchange and Lotus Domino, while blocking known and unknown threats by providing a comprehensive solution and services from a single vendor. monitor

• Improve Microsoft Exchange and Lotus performance by eliminating spam, viruses, and phishing attacks at the earliest point before they can impact the messaging infrastructure desktop

• Reduce the cost of managing the entire messaging infrastructure by consolidating on a single, integrated solution from one trusted vendor infosys

• Protect against spam and viruses in multiple information types such as email, instant messaging files, and Web communications refurbished laptops

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Symantec offers a comprehensive solution to manage risks across the enterprise information and messaging lifecycle while lowering the total cost of ownership. Comprised of industry-leading threat protection, a content filtering, archiving and discovery product, Symantec Information Risk Management solution is flexible and scalable, which enables organizations to maximize the value of their information. refurbished

• White Paper: IT Risk Management: An Essential Strategy for Business Success (PDF)
• Ensuring the Integrity of Email (PDF)
• Brochure: Comprehensive Protection for Messaging Systems and Data (PDF)
• Webcast: Enterprise Messaging Management - How to Secure and Manage your Critical Messaging Environment
• Podcast: Information Risk Management

The Symantec IT Compliance solution consisting of market leading products and services helps organizations more efficiently manage their compliance program in a more repeatable, scalable, and automated manner. Whether companies need to meet internal mandates or external regulations like SOX, industry standards such as PCI, or new federal or state e-discovery requirements, Symantec vast experience helps organizations develop solutions to meet their requirements with agility. memory

• Define the IT controls environment to manage IT risk. intel

• Develop appropriate IT policies; map policies to multiple regulations, industry standards, and control frameworks; and collect evidence to demonstrate that policies are in place, understood, and enforced. as400

• Implement and enforce IT controls such as endpoint protection, database security, data backup, and change and configuration management. averatec

• Assess IT controls compliance to policies and industry standards and remediate deficiencies such as vulnerabilities, weak passwords, and inappropriate user permissions, thereby increasing the reliability and effectiveness of IT controls. hardware

• Perform IT audits, capture system and security logs, and archive critical information. dual xeon

• Get the comprehensive information your organization needs to demonstrate compliance to regulations and internal mandates, secure your environment, and make the right decisions for good governance. storage

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Symantec s IT Policy Compliance solution comprises market-leading security, monitoring, management, and response products and services. The solution allows companies to integrate Symantec and third-party IT controls to provide a seamless compliance management process. Overall, Symantec is the market leader in key industry categories, including IT policy compliance, vulnerability management, security information management, managed security services, and information archiving. seagate

• Webcast: IT Policy Compliance
• Brochure: IT Policy Compliance (PDF)
• Technical Brief: Creating scalable, repeatable, and sustainable infrastructure controls assessments (PDF)
• Yellow Book: The Role of IT in Achieving Compliance (PDF)

Information Risk Compliance Discovery Retention Management

As corporate reliance on email and other unstructured data systems to drive business has increased, regulatory requirements and legal discovery requests have made information archiving a mandate in the enterprise environment. An effective records retention and search infrastructure ensures efficient legal discovery and response processes, leading to fewer business disruptions, data loss, and audit deficiencies. computer sales

Symantec Discovery Retention Management solution is a comprehensive platform for enterprise archiving to help organizations capture, classify, and store unstructured information in order to enforce retention policies, simplify discovery, and reduce storage costs and management overhead. computer hardware

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• Automatically classify and archive information for appropriate review and retention periods based on content and metadata technology

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Why Symantec

The sole Gartner Magic Quadrant Leader in Active Archiving, Symantec offers the only centralized archive for searching email, instant messaging, SharePoint, and files. Designed specifically for retention management of email and other unstructured information, Symantec solution helps cut costs through automation and standardization of retention policies and search requests. used computers

One of Symantec clients, a global investment management and advisory services firm with approximately 25, 000 people and annual revenue of over $10 billion, saw a risk-adjusted ROI of 32%, with a break-even point of 24 months after the deployment of Enterprise Vault. The company reduced email discovery processing times to 24 hours instead of weeks, and sometimes months. network

Information Risk Compliance Data Loss Prevention

Vontu Data Loss Prevention from Symantec is the industry s first integrated suite to prevent the loss of confidential data wherever it is stored or used across endpoint, network, and storage systems. The layered architecture of Vontu Data Loss Prevention prevents malicious and unintentional data breaches regardless of whether data is stored on the network or on a disconnected endpoint, as well as prevent data from exiting any network gateway or endpoint. digital cameras

Vontu Data Loss Prevention solution helps data security officers understand: Where is my confidential data stored How is it being used And how do I best prevent its loss Symantec s market-leading solution is the proven choice of commercial and government organizations to reduce inadvertent and malicious data loss incidents in order to protect their brand, safeguard their competitive advantage, and demonstrate compliance. desktops

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