Ask the Expert - June
Question:
I would like my customer who is currently a Corporate AntiVirus user to consider an upgrade to a current license. It seems that Symantec Endpoint Protection is their natural upgrade path. I want to determine how I obtain a license as a reseller to on-sell at retail price, and also advice on the best Symantec product to consider.
Answer:
In today’s threat landscape, the rate at which new threats are discovered is growing so fast that traditional antivirus-based protection is not enough to safeguard customers from all these kinds of threats. Additional technologies are required to complement and extend the level of protection from antivirus-based technologies.
Requiring less system resources and less memory than Symantec™ AntiVirus 10.0, Symantec™ Endpoint Protection 11.0 is the next generation of antivirus technology and offers at least three additional layers of proactive threat protection in a single agent:
1) Antivirus
Antivirus provides the ability to accurately clean up and remove viruses and malware found on a system.
2) Client Firewall and Intrusion Prevention
Client firewall and intrusion prevention work at the network layer to block threats before they get onto the system from the internet.
3) Application Control
Application control allows administrators to build a clean system and then “snapshot” critical files and applications so that they simply cannot operate if they ever get compromised.
4) Proactive Threat Scan
Proactive Threat Scan analyses every process, service and program on the system to ensure that any suspicious, rogue behaviour is blocked from doing damage, and it achieves this with complex mathematical analysis, instead of traditional antivirus signatures which need constant updating. What’s unique about this technology from Symantec is the absence of false-positives, which can cause annoyance or downtime for systems and users.
Migration to Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.0
For a product and migration tour of Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.0 visit http://edm.symantec.com/endpointsecurity/apac/
Licensing Information for Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.0
Resellers can contact Symantec authorised distributors for licensing and pricing information. A full list of Symantec authorised distributors is available at www.symantec.com/en/au/partners/programs/channel/distributorlist.jsp#au.
Order Your Free License/s of Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.0
If your organisation is a member of the Symantec Partner Program, your company is entitled to free software benefits*. Software benefits can be ordered through the Symantec Partner portal, PartnerNet, at https://partnernet.symantec.com
Once logged into PartnerNet, you will find the online order by clicking on the ‘Your Partner Program’ tab to the ‘Benefits’ page. When your order has been submitted and approved, you will be emailed an electronic license certificate with serial number/s allowing you to download the product/s.
*Software benefit programs, product offerings and quantities subject to partner level within the Symantec Partner Program and outlined on benefits pages in PartnerNet.