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Symantec Protection Suite

Struggling to defend your network against a growing array of new and sophisticated threats? Learn how Symantec Protection Suite helps you manage and secure your infrastructure while protecting critical information.

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Symantec Protection Suite - Small Business Edition

Right-sized, right-priced solution
Symantec Protection Suite Small Business Edition is a simple, affordable, security and backup solution designed to meet the unique needs of your growing business.

High-performance, easy management
Symantec Protection Suite Small Business Edition provides your organization with superior threat protection that's easy to install, quick to deploy and simple to manage.

KEY FEATURES

  • Defend against viruses, spyware, spam and phishing
  • Proactive Zero-day network threat protection
  • Single management console
  • Content filtering
  • Automated backups and reporting
  • Supports Exchange 2010 and virtualized environments
  • Recovers files and folders in seconds, or the entire computer in minutes
  • Centralized management for multiple laptops and desktops

KEY BENEFITS

  • Secure endpoints from viruses and malware
  • Protect e-mail from spam and phishing
  • Backup and recover desktops and laptops
  • Simplified installation with built-in wizards
  • Easy-to-use management interfaces
  • Zero administration with automated updates and reports
  • Competitively and conveniently priced for small businesses
  • Save time and reduce total cost of ownership
  • Minimize downtime

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Symantec Protection Suite - Advanced Business Edition

Protect critical business assets
Symantec Protection Suite Advanced Business Edition protects critical assets by securing against today's malicious malware
and spam threats and rapidly recovering key systems.

All-in-one solution
Symantec Protection Suite Advanced Business edition is the only suite that offers superior security with endpoint, e-mail, data protection, and backup and recovery capabilities.

KEY FEATURES

  • Delivers multiple layers of protection for your business
  • Deploys best-of-breed technologies
  • Protects your entire infrastructure against ever-evolving threats
  • Recovers data, desktops and servers completely
  • Keeps mission-critical systems running smoothly in case of disruption
  • Maintains business uptime
  • Optimizes performance and scalability
  • Simplifies with central management
  • Streamlines implementation and operations

KEY BENEFITS

  • Protects with proven, market-leading endpoint security, messaging security, endpoint protection and system recovery
  • Industry-first suite with server backup and recovery for easy restore of entire systems
  • Secure endpoints, messaging servers and gateways proactively with more than traditional antivirus and antispyware
  • Free up resources and increase performance by eliminating spam and e-mail threats before they reach key servers
  • Deploy integrated endpoint messaging security technologies with coordinated management and single sign-on
  • Simplify IT administration by centrally managing critical security tasks

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Symantec Protection Suite - Enterprise Edition

Comprehensive protection
Symantec Protection Suite Enterprise Edition creates a
protected endpoint, messaging and Web environment that
is quickly recoverable in the event of failure.

Affordable and effective management
Symantec Protection Suite's market-leading security technologies and a single sign-on Web console allow you to reduce the cost of securing your environment.

KEY FEATURES

  • Proactive protection for laptops, desktops, servers, and mobile devices
  • Effective and accurate antispam and antivirus protection for e-mail and instant messaging
  • Advanced content filtering and data loss prevention
  • Rapid data and system recovery for individual files and folders in seconds; complete Windows systems in minutes
  • Granular control over policies and features, making them easily configurable and selectively deployable
  • Network access control, desktop firewall and intrusion prevention

KEY BENEFITS

  • Simplifies implementation and operations
  • Integrated essential endpoint and messaging security technologies as unified solutions with coordinated management
  • Automatic controls help you achieve, prove and enforce adherence to IT policy and regulatory objectives with ease
  • Central management of backup and recovery tasks for multiple desktops and laptops
  • Support from the largest Global Intelligence Network in the world
  • Comprehensive virus protection against malicious threats that target Windows Mobile, Linux and Apple Mac systems

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For Small Businesses

Introduction to Protection Suite
Explore the individual components of Symantec Protection Suite: Endpoint Protection, Mail Security
for Microsoft Exchange, and Backup Exec System Recovery-Desktop Edition.

Endpoint Protection - Installation Tutorial
Not a security expert? No worries. See how quick
and easy it is to install the management server of Symantec Endpoint Protection.

Endpoint Production - Configuration Tutorial
Take a quick walkthrough of Endpoint Protection's
Client Installation wizard, an easy way to deploy client software to computers on your network.

Symantec Knows Small Business
Did you know that 50% of small businesses have lost critical data from their computers? Or that the average small business has never backed up its desktops? Learn how Symantec can help keep you protected.

Small Business Edition "Whiteboard" Presentation
In-depth look at key security vulnerabilities facing small business and what components you should be looking for in a comprehensive security solution.

For Medium and Enterprise Businesses

Advanced Business "Whiteboard" Presentation
Need to make a business case for implementing a new security solution? See how Symantec Protection Suite fits in to the "average day" of busy IT professionals.

Protection Suite Product Tour
Every day your business information is at risk from external attacks or internal user error. You need comprehensive protection and an integrated backup and recovery strategy. We've got you covered.

New Advanced Business Edition
Learn more about Advanced Business Edition - the industry's first security suite to offer endpoint, e-mail, data protection and backup and recovery capabilities - including server backup and recovery.

Meet Hal, I.T. Administrator

Meet Hal... and his infrastructure.
Hal understands how hard it is to protect a monstrous infrastructure and manage the software to do it right.

Interactive Tools

Dedupliation CalculatorSymantec ThreatCon Widget
Powered by Symantec’s Global Intelligence Network, this free plug-in provides your website visitors with
up-to-the-minute information on the latest Internet security threats, risks,
and vulnerabilities.

Dedupliation CalculatorSymantec Security ROI Calculator
Compare the use of Symantec solutions to your current environment, whether you are using a different tool or no tools at all. Quickly analyze the cost and benefits of implementing Symantec security solutions at your organization.

Small Business Risk CalculatorSmall Business Risk Calculator
Calculate the risk of operating a business without computer and data protection. The better informed you are about the financial risks involved, the better you will be able to determine the value of protection to your business.

 

Data Sheets and Articles

Small Business Edition Data Sheet
Easy-to-use, all-in-one suite designed for small businesses.

Advanced Business Edition Data Sheet
Protection that goes beyond anti-virus and endpoint security.

Enterprise Edition Data Sheet
Trusted protection for endpoint, messaging, and Web environments.

Why Upgrade?
Top 10 Reasons to choose Symantec Protection Suite.

Compare All Protection Suite Editions
Find the version that best meets the needs of your organization.

Symantec Volume Licensing Programs

To learn more about Symantec Volume Software Licensing, please contact your account manager or click here to submit a request for more information.


Symantec Government Program

The Symantec Government Program is for qualified government entities that need to purchase license quantities without signed contracts or financial commitments. The Government Program simplifies buying license quantities for use in the country of purchase. Government buyers are freed from formal contracts and commitments, and are eligible to earn increased discounts for purchases that grow with the size of each order. Managing your discount eligibility can help you meet the budget challenges of government entities at all levels.

  • Available for all software products
  • Low minimum requirements
  • Incentives for total volume of each order
  • No signed contact required
  • No ongoing financial commitment

 


Symantec Academic Program

Symantec Academic Program is for qualified academic institutions and charities that need to purchase license quantities without signed contracts or financial commitments.

The Academic Program simplifies buying license quantities for use in the country of purchase. Academic buyers are freed from formal contracts and commitments, and are eligible to receive discounts for purchases that grow with the size of each order. Managing your discount eligibility can help you meet the budget challenges of education and charity work.
  • Available for all software products
  • Low minimum requirements
  • Incentives for total volume of each order
  • No signed contact required
  • No ongoing financial commitment

Symantec Academic
Subscription Program

The Symantec Academic Subscription Program offers government-approved academic institutions a flexible way to purchase software licenses that are bundled with Essential Support (24x7) on a subscription basis. The program makes it easy to procure and administer and helps reduce the total cost of software licensing.
  • Low entry purchase requirements, subscription pricing
  • Simple and flexible subscription licensing with Essential Support
  • Tiered product discount bands
  • Home use rights for faculty and staff; student use option
  • Co-termination of all licensing purchased under the program

 

 

 

 
Symantec
Compare the features offered by each of the programs below: 		Available Symantec Licensing Programs
Government Academic Academic Subscription
Organization Type Government entities: National to Local Government- approved academic institutions Government- approved academic institutions
Minimum purchase requirements 1 server per transaction or 5 licenses1 1 server per transaction or 5 licenses1 250 units and $5K MSRP
Agreement Type Certificate Certificate Contract
Discounts Per transaction Per transaction Per transaction
License deployment rights Country of purchase Country of purchase Country of purchase
De-centralized purchasing (subsidiaries/ affiliates) No No No
Available support and maintenance services Yes Yes Yes
Consolidation of support and maintenance services No No No
Symantec Agreement Number (SAN) Yes Yes Yes
       

  Discount Pricing Bands
Each band represents a discount range applied to the total amount of each purchase. Government Academic Academic Subscription
S 1 1 N/A
A 5-249 5-249 250-499
B N/A N/A 500-999
C N/A N/A 1000-4000
D N/A N/A 5000-9999
E N/A N/A 10000+
F N/A N/A N/A
H 250+ 250+ N/A
Notes * Levels are calculated by product, SKU quantity, total purchase amount, region and currency rates. Discounts are provided to the entity placing the order with Symantec. For channel orders, Symantec provides the appropriate band level pricing to the channel partner, and the customer then arranges pricing the order with its reseller. * Levels are calculated by product, SKU quantity, total purchase amount, region and currency rates. Discounts are provided to the entity placing the order with Symantec. For channel orders, Symantec provides the appropriate band level pricing to the channel partner, and the customer then arranges pricing the order with its reseller. To enroll in the Academic Subscription Program a customer's initial order must be at least 250 units or total $5,000 MSRP. The number of units provided on the initial order will establish the customer's initial program band. Initial orders can be submitted once the customer has received their Welcome Letter with their Academic Subscription SAN (Symantec Agreement Number) from Symantec. An initial order, along with the Academic Subscription Program Worksheet, must be submitted within 14 calendar days of receiving the Welcome Letter.

Symantec Support & Maintenance Services

Basic Maintenance

Entry-level service offering best suited for organizations that run Symantec products on non-essential systems only.

Essential Support

Minimum recommended level of support for most enterprises, providing 24x7 access to Symantec's support experts.

Business Critical

Provides personalized, proactive support from technical experts for enterprises that require secure, uninterrupted access.

Symantec's Support & Maintenance Services help you keep your organization protected in today's connected world. Flexible, comprehensive solutions help you ensure that your installed Symantec products are fully functional, running smoothly, and delivering maximum value.


Business Critical Support
Enterprise Support Services Basic Maintenance Essential Support Advanced Access Remote Product Specialist Premier Data Center National & Global
Severity One Initial Response Time Goals 1 hour 30 minutes 15 minutes 15 minutes 15 minutes
Telephone Access to Support Engineers 8am-6pm Business hours 24x7x365 24x7x365 24x7x365 24x7x365
Downloadable software upgrades, updates, and patches          
Designated Callers 2 per Product Title 6 per Product Title 6 per Product Family 6 per Product Family Unlimited
Priority Call Queuing          
Direct Access to Advanced Engineers          
Designated Single Point of Contact          
Business Critical Account Manager (BCAM)          
Business Critical Engineer (BCE)          
Onsite Visits (Fly-to-Site)          
Account Reviews          
Impact Alerts          
 
Academic Subscription Renewal Period and Use Rights

Program Requirements

An Academic Institution must be organized and operated for educational purposes, such as a public or private school, college or university, and be accredited by an appropriate government board of education or accrediting organization.

  • Government-approved Academic Institution
  • Initial order of 250 units or $5,000 MSRP

Subscription Renewal Period

On an annual basis, Symantec will notify customers of their pending Subscription Renewal Period.

The Annual Subscription Renewal Period for the Academic Subscription Program is based off the Contract Start Date. For example if the Contract Start Date is August 1, 2009, the first renewal period would be July 31, 2010.

Use Rights

Home Use Rights
During the subscription period, a customer's faculty and staff members have the right to operate one copy of the desktop-based products offered in the Academic Subscription program on their personal home computers. The faculty and staff member must maintain current employment status in order to enjoy the home use rights. No separate purchase of a home use license is required; the home use rights are included in the customer's academic subscription license fees.

Student Use Option for Campus Customers
During a subscription period, a Campus customer may order applicable student-use licenses for each full-time student to use on their student-owned computers. A Campus must order a copy for each student based on the student-use count calculation set forth , below. The student must maintain current enrolled status in order to enjoy the student use rights. Please see the current Academic Subscription price list for a list of the products available for student use.

Full Time Equivalent Calculation

Faculty/Staff Count:
Full-time Faculty (= to 1 FTE)
Part-Time Faculty (= 1/3 of a FTE)
Full-Time Staff (= to 1 FTE)
Part-Time Staff (= to ½ of a FTE)
FTE Faculty/Staff Baseline

Student Count for Student Use Option and Campus Managed
Software for Student Coverage:
Full-Time Students (= to 1 FTE)
Part-Time Students (= 1/3 of a FTE)
FTE Student Baseline

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