Symantec Data Center Security Valuable Features

Shahram Dehghani - PeerSpot reviewer
Security Technical Manager at Modaberan Fanavari Pasargad

The primary focus of data center security often revolves around serving customers who offer services to other clients within the data center. For example, if I operate a data center and provide security services, third-party customers might purchase virtual machine products within my data center. These products are automatically deployed, and we safeguard these virtual machines using intrusion prevention system features. This aspect is considered the most valuable part because when we set up these security policies, it's as if we're fortifying the entire infrastructure. It's not just about having good technical support; it's about having a robust IPS and comprehensive DOS  prevention system on those operating systems. The advantage of Data Center Security is its ease of use and that it serves as a single unified platform, where I can apply all my security policies to protect that server.

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Ravi_M - PeerSpot reviewer
Senior System Administrator - Cyber Security at Sapiens Technologies India Pvt Ltd

The standout feature for me is the precision of Symantec Data Center Security. It ensures that only the right folks can access our machines, especially the critical and genuine folders. The real strength lies in its straightforward approach, offering just two key policies: prevention and detection. It is like having a robust gatekeeper for our system.

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Dennis O'Reilly - PeerSpot reviewer
Cyber SecOps Principal at Dotcom Security

The standout feature is its robust hardening capability. The ability to finely control permissions and restrictions on servers or assets through a customizable rule set is a key strength. This granularity allows for tailored adjustments in line with organizational policies, making it a valuable aspect of the solution.

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Atul-Vats - PeerSpot reviewer
Consultant at a tech vendor with 10,001+ employees

The beauty of the product is the complete system lockdown feature. It ingests all the logs over a month, including the daily processes, tasks, legitimate users, and activities. The tool will then detect any anomalies, such as an intruder who has breached the network, which can trigger the system lockdown feature if it's enabled and meets the defined threshold.

The prevention feature, for which we could restrict the users, is useful. Let's say there were one Lotus Notes or there was one Domino server that had the directory of all the email users in the organization, and there were around 40,000 users with email accounts in that particular customer location. Apart from a few on top, for example, trusted administrators, no one in the organization should have access to be able to change anything. Even the server admin owner who has created that server cannot do anything and cannot apply a dot or delete that dot from the directory through this particular tool.

We configured it in such a manner so that, apart from those five administrators, no one from the entire organization or an attacker will not be able to make any changes in the directory itself. They cannot spoil it, and they cannot use the information. Even the read access of that particular directory can be revoked from an administrator. 

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ST
Engineer 4- Security Operations at a tech services company with 11-50 employees

The granularity of applying the policies is valuable. It is really helpful. Other solutions we use lack granularity.

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Olhbe456 - PeerSpot reviewer
IT Infrastructure/Systems Admin at a financial services firm with 201-500 employees

We use the product to prevent unauthorized access to data, systems, and servers. It provides essential features for data center security.

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it_user1204914 - PeerSpot reviewer
Project Manager IT at a computer software company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The most valuable feature is the centralized console, which can handle different products that we have. It is essentially a segregation option.

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CY
IT Security Specialist at a tech services company with 201-500 employees

The file integrity monitoring features are the most valuable features of this product. 

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MD
Managing Director at a tech services company with 51-200 employees

The most valuable feature is that the protection of the hard disk security is built in, so it is a ready-to-use product. The monitoring in the management console allows us to find out what is going wrong, and it gets reports even before the user reports it.

Having it in advance of the user is important because it takes time to comprehend. Once we know what is going on and who is doing it, we can act accordingly. We have created our own workflow mechanism as an outcome of this, and we can update the identity and provisioning if any modifications need to be done.

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SM
Cyber Security Technical Engineer at a tech services company with 1-10 employees

The console and tools are very user-friendly. We can easily fetch reports and upload them in the report logs. It's very easy for us.

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PB
Group Head - Information Security at a energy/utilities company with 1,001-5,000 employees

The most valuable feature is the endpoint protection system.

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Buyer's Guide
Symantec Data Center Security
March 2024
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