SYDNEY, Australia. – November 30, 2012 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition 2013, giving small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) choice by offering a cloud-managed service and traditional on-premise management in a single endpoint protection product. By simplifying the deployment options, SMBs have the freedom to very easily move to the cloud when they’re ready without adding complexity to their environment. SMBs can also effortlessly protect their information at a time when targeted attacks have doubled against businesses with 250 or fewer employees, climbing to 36 percent of all targeted attacks.

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Threats Stop Business, We Stop Threats: Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition 2013

Nearly all SMBs have reported suffering from cyber attacks.  As a result, SMBs need scalable, easy-to-deploy and easy-to-manage security solutions to protect against the onslaught of malware and web-based attacks targeting their business. Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition 2013 addresses these requirements by installing in minutes, protecting against viruses and malware, and updating automatically to deliver critical protection for laptops, desktops, and file servers. Built specifically for SMBs, this new solution delivers on Symantec’s commitment to serving, enabling, helping and protecting this important business community around the world.

Simple, Fast and Effective Protection against Cyber Attacks
Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition 2013 allows SMB owners and their employees to work confidently knowing they’re always protected with features that include:

• Industry-leading      security: Advanced virus and malware      protection, supported with Symantec Insight and Symantec Online Network for Advanced Response (SONAR)      behavior-based security technologies, quickly and easily detects new      threats and stops them in their tracks, keeping staff computers secure and      productive even when they’re mobile.
• Management      choice: The simplicity, power, and      convenience of a cloud-managed service, or an on-premise management      application, enables better budget management with a simple subscription      fee that flattens operating costs and covers either management choice.      Customers that prefer to initially deploy an on-premise management server      can switch to the cloud at no additional cost when they’re ready, which      future-proofs their investment.
• Windows®      8 support: Compatible with Windows 8 to      protect computers running the new operating system.

The cloud-managed service provides additional benefits to SMBs including:

• Sets      up in minutes: Easy setup in minutes that      requires no specialised staff or training. There is no hardware to install      or upgrade, as everything happens effortlessly over the Web. The      user-friendly, web-based console allows SMBs to change security settings,      set up alerts, and view reports with just a few clicks, and local security      updates deliver better bandwidth optimisation.
• USB      device control: New capabilities to detect and      protect against harmful files from USB storage devices, which are commonly      used to spread malware.

Partner Management Console
Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition 2013 is supported by the Symantec Partner Management Console, which allows partners to easily monitor and manage their customers’ environments using cloud-managed deployments of Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition 2013 and Symantec Backup Exec.cloud through a single web-based portal. The console enables fast customer set-up and accelerates partner profitability by reducing the costs of managing multiple customers and services while demonstrating increased value to end users.

Quotes
“Today’s SMBs are four times more at risk of malware attacks than larger companies. Despite the risk, some just cross their fingers and wing it because buying, deploying and managing security systems is too complicated. Today’s announcement demonstrates Symantec’s commitment to simplifying information protection for SMBs. It takes just minutes for a virus to destroy a business. Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition 2013 protects it just as fast. It installs in minutes and updates automatically, so small businesses can be confident the lifeblood of their business–their information– is always protected against viruses and malware.” – Sean Kopelke, Director, Specialist Solutions, Pacific Region, Symantec.

Pricing and Availability
SMBs currently using a competing endpoint security product may qualify for discounted pricing on Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition 2013. Symantec customers using a different Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition product may qualify for discounted pricing when switching to the new product. Symantec customers currently using Symantec Endpoint Protection.cloud are automatically transitioned to Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition 2013 and inherit all of the new features of the service. Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition 2013 is immediately available for purchase in select countries worldwide through Symantec’s global network of value-added authorised resellers, distributors and systems integrators or directly through the Symantec e-store.