Bit9 Parity for Symantec Platform
Bit9 Parity for Symantec Management Platform allows Symantec (Altiris) customers to gain total control over all software on their endpoints directly from the Symantec Management Console.
“Application whitelisting should be foundational in our strategy to protect endpoints,”
— Neil MacDonald, vice president and distinguished analyst, Gartner
Using Symantec’s Management Console automates management functions and Bit9 Parity Application Whitelisting within a single console and delivery platform. Leveraging this consolidation, businesses can take advantage of existing investments in Symantec’s common management platform to lower IT costs, ensure compliance and secure endpoints.
Symantec Endpoint Protection (Antivirus) customers can also leverage Bit9’s Application Whitelisting as a defense-in-depth strategy to enable a proactive security posture. Bit9 Application Whitelisting maintains the integrity of endpoints and gives enterprises the “foundational” layer of security that Gartner advocates is needed to prevent disruptive software and advanced malware.
The Bit9 Parity for Symantec Management Platform integration enables IT Staff to:
- Provision Bit9 Parity clients through the Symantec Management Console
- View Bit9 Parity Events and Alerts within the Symantec Management Console
- Whitelist (trust) the Symantec Management Platform Software Catalog
- Proactively stop advanced malware (Aurora) without Antivirus or behavioral signatures
- Assign risk to rogue software not distributed by the Symantec Management Platform
- Ensure compliance and the integrity of endpoints by preventing software drift
- Reduce support calls and IT costs caused by disruptive software
Key Benefits:
- Stop Unauthorized and Malicious Software by allowing only the approved software to run and blocking all other unauthorized software
- Reduce the Burden of Compliance through streamlined audits, activity monitoring, violation notification and policy enforcement
- Transition Your Users without impacting their regular activities by leveraging policy simulation, process automation and other integration points
- Leverage the Bit9 Parity Knowledge Service to inventory and assess the Trust Factor of the software applications across your computers
- Symantec Management Console Provides real-time visibility and control across all endpoints
- Automate Time-Consuming and Redundant Tasks to minimize efforts and costs associated with deploying, securing, and troubleshooting client systems so you can gain control of your IT environment
- Automate Migrations, operating systems, patch management, imaging, and deployment updates
- Prevent Advanced Malware and targeted attacks such as the recent “Aurora” attack; discover rogue software not pushed out by the SMP and assigns a Trust Factor
“Bringing Application Whitelisting into the Symantec Management Platform makes perfect sense. Combining the functions into one console lowers the total cost of ownership and adding the advanced Application Whitelisting capabilities heightens protection against advanced malware for security conscious businesses.” — said Eric Ogren, principal analyst at the Ogren Group.