Actionable Intelligence and Optimized Security From Symantec

As security teams labor to stay ahead of fast-changing threats, the task of collecting and interpreting the updates flowing across their screens has become increasingly fraught.

What data should they pay attention to? How much information should they gather? What’s the best way to go about correlating all that information to make sense of it all?

This is where security battles get won or lost. An organization may have accumulated massive amounts of data but if it cannot connect that vast reservoir of information in a meaningful way for the customer, then it’s basically useless. Simply put, without the ability to gather events, behaviors, and threat data and mine all that intelligence, enterprises are doomed to always remain a step behind existing and future attackers.

That’s why the need for greater “visibility” has never been more critical. Visibility is an umbrella term that applies to various aspects of cyber security solutions from gathering telemetry to threat discovery and response, threat landscape to attack-chain buildout, detection enrichment to effective remediation, and workflow integrations to metrics and reports.

The question ultimately boils down to a matter of whether you can trust a particular security vendor to satisfy the myriad needs of enterprise admins, SOC analysts and CISOs. Ultimately, customers need to enhance their security posture to be able to respond quickly to threats and prevent future incidents.

At Symantec, as part of Broadcom Software, we have over 20-plus years of domain expertise and countless interactions with customers, gathering use-cases and perfecting workflows. We have also developed the world’s best global intelligence network (GIN), allowing us to share insights with our customers to tackle adversaries together.

Customers have visibility only into what comes into their environment. In contrast, Symantec has a huge endpoint footprint thanks to its global customer reach. We also enrich our data with 3rd party feeds from other security vendors and security consortiums. Data analytics run on top of all that to correlate everything together. The upshot: we can map the whole attack chain for specific threats and show exactly the artifacts that are being used each step of the way - as well as provide actionable protection, prevention and detection to improve the security posture.

Let’s take a closer look at how all this unfolds in practice.

Threat Discovery and Communication

Whether a solution is designed for detection, protection, or prevention, it requires a great deal of calibrated understanding of how attackers attempt to infiltrate and understand their likely next move.  At Symantec, we have dedicated groups of security experts whose mission is to investigate targeted attacks, strategize a response, and then share analysis with customers as soon as possible. Our Global Intelligence Network (GIN) is a unique asset: one of the largest civilian security threat intelligence networks in the world with a vast network of security intelligence exchange and threat repository. We have built tools and APIs that you can leverage to get real-time threat intelligence data and additional services to provide flexibility and options to your web filters, policies, and security management.

Workflow integrations and tap into GIN

At Symantec, we understand customers may want integration with their security team's workflow to know everything about a threat vector, detonate files to gather attributes and disposition, submit samples for further investigation, or perform deep search on threat families and attack vectors. No matter if you are using on-prem or cloud solutions, you have access to browser plugin-ins to tap into GIN and endpoint APIs that can be hooked into your workflows to know the latest and greatest threat intelligence and significantly reduce your operational overhead.

Data Enrichment and MITRE mapping

It is one thing to have access to data, it’s quite another to have meaningful aggregated enriched correlated datasets available for easier user consumption. Everything must fall in place so that security teams can act quickly. This is where Symantec’s heritage pays dividends. Our telemetry is not only enriched with MITRE mapping techniques but an independent third party evaluation of endpoint protection solutions that awarded Symantec with the highest scores of competitors tested in visibility.  Symantec’s EDR solution is equipped with features that make it easy to tackle blind spots in enterprise infrastructure, while Symantec Endpoint Security Complete (SES Complete) offers an integrated modular tool set designed to tackle security adversaries. 

To tie it all together - better visibility leads to better security and intelligence.  It is about visibility and translating that visibility into intelligence and actionable prevention, detection and protection for our customers. Symantec can help with that as we maximize your visibility to effectively protect your digital infrastructure from multifaceted threats. Contact us here to learn more.

You can also visit Symantec’s global protection by the numbers webpage to get a glance at the scale at which we operate, allowing us to deliver protection to our customers.