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Symantec Development Surge Produces Industry’s Best Mobile Threat Protection
June 2014 by Marc Jacob
A development surge at Symantec has tackled one of today’s biggest IT challenges: mobile threat protection. Symantec has enhanced its enterprise mobility management solution, bringing together relevant technologies required to enhance productivity and protect information across devices and applications, create a solution that allows enterprises to confidently embrace the mobile workforce.
Protecting corporate data in today’s mobile environment is an increasingly complex IT challenge that spans devices, the cloud and in transit. New mobility capabilities increase risk for data leaks, malware, unauthorized access and lost devices.
Symantec’s mobile development surge focused on providing enterprises with secure access to mobile apps, content and devices, as well as enforcement capabilities to manage access, policies, encryption and data loss prevention. Development efforts have introduced enhancements for protecting business email, one of the most widely adopted mobile applications.
Key Mobile Updates
Symantec has steadily developed the following mobile security and productivity enhancements:
? Norton Mobile Security Integration: The integration of App Center and Norton Mobile Security produces capabilities unmatched by any other mobile device management solution. The combined tools deliver a single console that provides enforcement for device antivirus compliance and protects Android users from mobile malware, privacy risks, freeware, and fraudulent websites.
? Symantec Sealed Program: Symantec’s industry-leading application wrapping technology helps customers easily manage a secure ecosystem of third-party licensed applications and enterprise applications in a single, secure workspace for their corporate end users.
? Norton Mobile Insight: A proprietary intelligence tool that processes 10,000 new apps every 24 hours provides dynamic analysis for every app in more than 200 app stores to determine potential security risks, privacy risks and potentially intrusive behavior.
? Email Gateway: Released in App Center 4.4, the Email Gateway provides a secure buffer between mobile devices and Exchange Active Sync (EAS) email servers. By maintaining independence from existing EAS mail infrastructures, Email Gateway mitigates unauthorized access, malware, and malicious attacks on a corporate email system.
? Secure App Proxy: Also in App Center 4.4, the Secure App Proxy provides granular, secure per-application access to the corporate network resources. This allows enterprise administrators to extend access to data inside the corporate firewall without the need for device level VPN or MDM controls.
? Partner API’s: Another App Center 4.4 update, new partner APIs allow external partners, like system integrators, telecommunications operators and service providers, to integrate App Center mobility capabilities into their existing IT infrastructure or third-party applications.
? Making Secure Logins Simpler for the End User: Symantec’s Push Authentication technology for Symantec Validation and ID Protection (VIP) Service removes the need to manually enter a PIN when logging into a VPN connection. Users can click “allow” and the VPN client will automatically log in.
? Norton Spot: This beta app provides information on potential Android app threats to users before they download the app. No other provider on the market offers this unique ability.
