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Product Information

Symantec Protection Suite provides powerful endpoint security, messaging security and backup and recovery for your desktops.

Symantec Protection Suite is available in 3 editions:-

• Symantec Protection Suite Small Business Edition provides anti-virus and anti-spyware protection, a firewall and intrusion prevention for Windows client PCs along with antivirus protection for Macs. It supports Exchange and provides content filtering and compliance options. The included backup and recovery capabilities allow live backup of desktops and laptops and restoration to any hardware. This edition is intended for businesses with under 50 users.

• Symantec Protection Suite Advanced Business Edition includes all the functionality of the Small Business Edition and adds device and application control capabilities, anti-virus protection for Linux, reputation-based spam filtering and data loss prevention along with a software subscription to Messaging Gateway and backup and disaster recovery capabilities for servers. This edition is intended for businesses with 50 - 100 users.

• Symantec Protection Suite Enterprise Edition includes all the functionality of the Small Business Edition along with enhanced messaging security including reputation-based spam filtering, data loss prevention and support for Lotus Domino. Additionally includes Messaging Gateway, Web Gateway, anti-virus clients for Linux and Windows Mobile and enables system administrators to control access to networks, devices and applications. This edition is intended for businesses with 100 - 1,000 users.

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Documents & Downloads

» Symantec Licensing Bandings Overview (PDF)

» Symantec Protection Suite - Quick Reference Guide

» Symantec Protection Suite Advanced Business Edition

» Symantec Protection Suite Enterprise Edition Datasheet

» Symantec Protection Suite Small Business Edition Datasheet

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New Features

Endpoint Protection:

• Protects against more threats by integrating industry leading protection technologies such as antivirus, antispyware, desktop firewall, and Intrusion Prevention technologies to offer multi-layered security.
• Saves you time and money with a 20 minute deployment and helps simplify the install process with self-guiding wizards for easy setup and configuration.
• Minimises performance impact with superior boot-time in and low overhead when it comes to every day interaction with files and applications.
• Provides operational efficiencies by delivering a single integrated interface for managing all Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition technologies.

AntiSpam and Messaging Security for Microsoft Exchange:

• Protects Microsoft Exchange Server from spam and phishing threats with industry-leading antispam technology that catches more than 97% of spam with less than one in a million false positives.
• Defends against new and known viruses with timely and automatic updates to ensure protection against emerging threats.
• Ensures compliance with integrated content filtering for policy enforcement, blocking inappropriate content and restricting confidential information from being sent.
• Provides centralised management and consolidated reports and requires only minimal on-going administration after initial setup.

Backup and Recovery – Full System and Data Recovery:

• Ensures that your business assets are protected against new threats through automated, event-driven backups.
• Easily restore entire computer systems back to an exact point-in-time, even to dissimilar hardware, without the need for manual and lengthy error prone processes.
• Minimise downtime and gets your computer systems back up and running in minutes, not hours or days.

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Features

Symantec Protection Suite for Small Business is a bundle that includes:

• Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition
• Symantec AntiVirus for Mac
• Symantec Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange
• Symantec Premium AntiSpam
• Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery Desktop Edition

Symantec Protection Suite for Small Business provides:

• Proactive technologies that deliver end to end protection against unknown threats for laptops, desktops and messaging servers
• Recovery of critical data in seconds or entire computer systems in minutes, even to different computer systems or virtual environments
• Easy management and optimised resources that help simplify implementation and quickly deploy with minimal disruption to your environment
• Identify and control of the flow of sensitive information via email so that your business reputation is protected.

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System Req.

Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition

Management server
Processor

• Note: Itanium is not supported
• 1-GHz Intel Pentium III processor or compatible architecture minimum (32-bit and 64-bit)

Recommended memory

• 1 GB of RAM minimum
• 2 GB recommended

Hard disk

• 4 GB or more

Client workstations and servers
Processor

• Note: Itanium is not supported
• 1-GHz Intel Pentium II processor or compatible architecture minimum (32-bit and 64-bit)

Memory

• 256 MB of RAM minimum
• 1 GB recommended

Hard disk

• 700 MB or more

Symantec Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange

Operating system requirements

• Microsoft Windows 2000 Server/Advanced Server/Data Center (SP4)
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Standard/Enterprise/Data Center (SP1)
• Microsoft Windows Server 2003 x64 or Windows Server 2003 R2 x64, Standard or Enterprise Edition
• Microsoft Windows Server 2008 x64 Standard orEnterprise Edition

For Microsoft Windows Server 2003 x64 or 2008 x64 Standard or Enterprise Edition

• Intel Server-class 32-bit processor
• 1 GB of RAM

For Exchange Server 2007

• x64 architecture–based computer with Intel processor that supports Intel Extended Memory 64 Technology (Intel EM64T), or AMD processor that supports the AMD64 platform
• 2 GB RAM minimum

For all versions of Exchange

• 325 MB available disk space for Symantec Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange
• .NET Framework version 2.0
• Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) 2.8 or higher
• Microsoft DirectX 9.0

Console-only installation requirements
Operating systems

• Windows 2000 (SP4)
• Windows 2003 (SP1)
• Windows XP (SP1)

Minimum system requirements

• 512 MB of RAM
• 250 MB available disk space
• .NET Framework version 2.0
• Microsoft DirectX 9.0

Symantec AntiVirus for Macintosh 10.2

Operating System Requirements

• Mac OS X version 10.4.11 - 10.5.x

Hardware Requirements

• Xserve G5, Xserve, Power Mac G5, Power Mac G4, Macintosh Server G4, Power Macintosh G3 (Blue & White), Macintosh Server G3 (Blue & White), iMac, eMac or Mac mini computer
• 256 MB of RAM, at least 512 MB of RAM for high-demand servers running multiple services
• Built-in FireWire
• 4 GB of available disk space

Other Software Requirements

• As an included add-on component, the Symantec Administration Console requires that Macintosh clients with Symantec AntiVirus 10.2 for Macintosh run under Mac OS 10.4.11 -10.5.x. (NOTE: Mac OS X Server 10.4.11 - 10.5.x is required. Mac OS X Server 10.4 and 10.5 software includes Apache and MySQL)

Symantec AntiVirus for Macintosh 10.2 Administration Console
Supported Administration Console Browsers

• Mac OS X + Safari 1.2.X, Firefox 2
• Windows XP Pro + Internet Explorer 6 SP2, Firefox 2
• RedHat Linux + Netscape 7

Symantec AntiVirus for Macintosh Client 10.2
Operating System Requirements

• Macintosh OS X version 10.4.11 - 10.5.x

Hardware Requirements

• G3 processor or higher (G4 800 MHz or better if running Mac OS X 10.4.11 or Mac OS X 10.5.x)
• 192 MB of RAM
• 40 MB of available hard disk space for installation
• Internet connection required for LiveUpdate

Backup Exec System Recovery Desktop Edition 8.5

Operating Systems for the Desktop Edition
Windows 32-bit or 64-bit operating systems

• Windows Vista Ultimate
• Windows Vista Business
• Windows Vista Enterprise
• Windows XP Professional/Home (SP2 or later)
• Windows XP Media Center

Processor

• 233 MHz or greater, as required by the operating system

RAM
Memory requirements per key components:

• Backup Exec System Recovery Agent: 512 MB
• Backup Exec System Recovery user interface and Recovery Point Browser: 512 MB
• Symantec Recovery Disk: 512 MB minimum (dedicated) (Note: If you are installing a multilingual version of the product, you must have a minimum of 768 MB of RAM (dedicated) to run the multilingual version of the Symantec Recovery Disk)
• Backup Exec System Recovery LightsOut Restore feature: 1 GB

Symantec Premium AntiSpam

Operating System requirements

• Solaris 8 or 9
• Windows 2000 Server (SP3)
• Windows 2003 Server (SP1)