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Harnessing more than eighteen years of experience developing award-winning technologies for anti-virus and endpoint protection, Symantec Hosted Endpoint Protection is designed to safeguard endpoint systems with a single solution managed from a Web-based console offering advanced protection from the endpoint to the gateway.

As threats become more complex and the global workforce increasingly more mobile, analysts have predicted that businesses will demand highly effective security solutions that are easy to set up and require minimal maintenance– features especially important to small and medium sized businesses that have limited resources to stay current with evolving security requirements while managing a myriad of additional IT responsibilities.

“A growing number of our clients have central offices with a largely distributed workforce that is either on the road or working from branch offices located across EMEA,” said Finian Nally, Technical Director, E-MIT Solutions, a Dublin-based provider of IT Consultancy and Management services to SMBs. “With Symantec Hosted Endpoint Protection, we have visibility into the health of end user systems and know that their protection levels are current and meet their corporate security requirements regardless of whether they are logged into the network. This part of the workforce is often more difficult to monitor so the ability to manage these distributed systems from a single management console makes our lives much easier and also cuts costs for our clients.”

In addition to Symantec Hosted Endpoint Protection, recent enhancements to the MessageLabs Web Security Service roaming support options will allow organizations to monitor and secure the online activity of a highly distributed workforce.

Drawing on ten years of securing corporate networks in the cloud, the MessageLabs Hosted Web Security Service offers enhanced roaming and remote worker support options to help organizations secure and enforce proper Web use in numerous environments. SmartConnect for MessageLabs Hosted Web Security protects against malware, enforces Web acceptable usage policies for roaming users and detects geographic location for optimal service performance. RemoteConnect for MessageLabs Hosted Web Security protects and enforces Web acceptable use policies for tele-workers or employees at remote offices.

According to Forrester,[1] telecommuting is accelerating the transition to cloud-based computing solutions which are effective for highly distributed organizations. A cloud-based delivery model streamlines the process of provisioning remote workers over the Internet, and provides IT organizations with greater visibility and control over corporate assets.

Symantec Hosted Endpoint Protection, SmartConnect and RemoteConnect are available now to customers worldwide. Smart Connect and Remote Connect make use of a single policy engine, allowing the services to be easily combined for centralized reporting, Web policy management and configuration using a single Web-based portal.

Symantec Hosted Endpoint Protection leverages Ubiquity, an award winning next generation security technology from Symantec, built on community-based reputation, for fighting the newest malware attacks. Ubiquity enables Symantec Hosted Endpoint Protection to harness the anonymous software usage patterns of more than 100 million contributing Symantec customers to deliver protection against the latest micro-distributed, mutating threats, which would otherwise completely evade traditional security solutions.

Symantec Hosted Endpoint Protection can be purchased on its own or in combination with other Symantec Hosted Services across email, web and IM. The service is currently available in English.