DeepSight Alert Service from Symantec
A proactive approach to ensuring a secure environment while saving time and money!
Every day hundreds of engineering deficiencies are discovered in operating systems and application software worldwide. Symantec(TM) DeepSight Alert Service will find, catalog, and analyze vulnerabilities so you don’t have to. It gathers all new and existing information on vulnerabilities and malicious code from more than 18,000 product versions from 2,200 vendors automatically delivering up-to-the-minute security alerts worldwide. The average company's IT security team devotes a mere 2.1 hours* each day collecting security information. In today's threat environment, this is simply not enough time!
Threats to your IT infrastructure appear in a variety of forms, and could strike at any moment. Symantec DeepSight Alert Service helps your business stay on top of IT risks by providing comprehensive, actionable, and timely early warning of potential security threats before they can cause harm. The result is improved business continuity, consistent adherence to emerging security regulations, and ultimately, a savings of your IT security team's time, effort, and resources. Ask for a free 30 day trial. Call for pricing.
Key Features:
- Monitors vulnerabilities in more than 18,000 technologies, operating systems, and application product versions from 2,200 vendors, and automatically delivers timely security notifications worldwide
- Vulnerabilities monitored 24x7 by Symantec(TM) Security Response, the world's leading Internet research and support organization
- Provides analysis and guidance on how to mitigate risks by using technologies such as firewalls or IDS even before virus definition files are available
- Easily set-up customization enables security professionals to receive only alerts relevant to their enterprise and their specific areas of responsibility
- Offers an industry-leading variety of notification delivery options, including email, voice, fax, and SMS
- Enables secure, Web-based queries to an industry-leading vulnerability database, and provides detailed patch and release information
- Prioritized alerts enable security and IT professionals to efficiently allocate time and resources based on the most pressing security issues
- Current and historical alerting and response reports provide information for process improvement and management communication
- Administrative user status gives control over subordinate users in order to share information, collaborate for early mitigation, and increase accountability
- Optional XML and Remedy Help Desk output for integration into IT security processes and remediation solutions, enables tracking of actions by the security and IT team through internal systems for faster response and resolution
- Alert status tracking streamlines task assignment and reporting by providing status and documenting resolutions
Enabling proactive protection through the rapid delivery of actionable Early Warning security information
Symantec DeepSight Alert Services delivers personalized vulnerability and malicious code alerts to inform organizations of new potential threats. The service delivers notification of vulnerabilities and exploits as they are identified, providing timely, actionable information and guidance to help mitigate risks before they are exploited. Symantec analysts monitor potential threats 24x7 across more than 18,000 distinct product versions and information from more than 150 authoritative sources. A detailed analysis is provided in each alert and update, describing threat severity, potential impact, technical structure, systems that might be affected, available patches or workarounds, and comprehensive mitigation strategies.
Advanced customization capabilities allow organizations to receive only those alerts relevant to their specific environment. Alerts, status tracking, and reporting are available through a secure Web site. Alerting messages are dispatched by email, voice, fax, or SMS. Content is structured for integration into current security operations. The optional XML format ensures simple and efficient information reuse within an organization's IT support and Help Desk operations. By eliminating hours spent searching through Web sites and emails to gather information, distributing it, and then following up on the results, the service enables a proactive approach to ensuring a secure environment while saving time and money.
System Requirements
Browsers:
Microsoft Internet Explorer versions 5.5+
Netscape Navigator versions 6.x+
With browser features enabled:
Other requirements:
Adobe Acrobat Reader 4.0 or greater for viewing alerts and reports
Internet email address for receiving alerts and reports
DeepSight Alert Service from Symantec
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