At Symantec, we work hard to deliver innovative products that enable our customers to always stay one step ahead of attackers. We’re honored to share that CRN, a brand of The Channel Company, has recognized us for our innovation by naming Symantec Advanced Threat Protection (ATP) and Blue Coat Security Platform finalists in the 2016 Product of the Year Awards for endpoint security and cloud and application security, respectively. Symantec ATP was also named a finalist in the publication’s 2016 Tech Innovator Awards.
In 2015, 35 percent of targeted attacks were launched against large companies (2,500+ employees) and 65 percent against small-and-medium-sized organizations. As cyber threats continue to evolve, yesterday’s methods of security are ill-equipped to keep up, putting organizations of all sizes and in all geographies at risk.
Symantec Advanced Threat Protection (ATP)
Symantec ATP provides the first unified platform that uncovers, prioritizes, investigates, and remediates advanced threats across endpoints, networks, email and roaming, all from a single console.
Symantec ATP uncovers stealthy threats that others miss by leveraging one of the world’s largest civilian threat intelligence networks combined with local customer context. Incident responders are notified as soon as an organization has been identified as a target of an active attack campaign and provides customers with granular attack details allowing them to remediate all instances of threats in minutes. It is the first solution in the market that can detect, prioritize, and remediate advanced threats across multiple control points, through a single console with no new endpoint agent to deploy.
Blue Coat Security Platform
The Blue Coat Security Platform unites the network, security and the cloud capabilities to provide maximum protection for organizations’ complete computing environment – while minimizing impact on network performance and enabling them to fully embrace cloud applications and services.
The Blue Coat Security Platform helps organizations manage the complexities of several massive shifts taking place in their computing landscape such as evolving networks, migration to the cloud and the endpoint revolution. This integrated security platform addresses these evolving network + security + cloud requirements.
Symantec ATP and Blue Coat Security Platform were subject to vast evaluation criteria. CRN evaluated a number of vendors, selecting the top five finalists across 17 different categories. Solution providers’ partners were then surveyed and asked to rate those finalists to determine the winner. The survey garnered over 5,000 responses, with solution providers considering a number of factors in determining their ratings, including product quality and reliability, technical innovation, ease of integration, potential to drive revenue, and fulfillment of market and customer demands.
To be recognized as the winner demonstrates our commitment to continuous innovation that addresses customer needs as enterprise security becomes more complex due to ever evolving threats.