Easy-to-use, all-in-one suite designed for small businesses who want simple, but effective desktop security software

Symantec Protection Suite Small Business Edition offers simple and affordable desktop security that protects against today’s most dangerous threats. This desktop security software shields desktops and servers from viruses and spyware, protecting email against spam and phishing threats and quickly recovering desktops and laptops in the event of failure.

Key Features

Endpoint Security

• Anti-virus and anti-spyware
• Network threat protection
• Proactive Zero-day threat protection
• Single-agent and single-management console

Messaging Security

• Anti-spam and anti-phishing
• Content filtering
• Continuous spam signature updates
• Automated reporting and supports Exchange 2010 and virtualized environments

Backup and Recovery

• While-you-work backups
• Recovers files and folders in seconds, or the entire computer in minutes
• Centralized management for multiple desktops/laptops
• Automated backups

Key Benefits

Protect Completely

• Secure your endpoints from virus and malware threats
• Protect your email from spam and phishing threats
• Back up and recover desktops and laptops

Manage Easily

• Quick and simplified installation with built-in wizards
• Easy-to-use management interfaces
• Zero administration with automated updates and reports

Affordable

• Competitively and conveniently priced for small businesses
• Save time and reduce total cost of ownership
• Minimize downtime

Overview

Symantec Protection Suite Small Business Edition is an easy-to-use, “all-in-one” suite that secures your critical business assets and information against today’s complex malware and spam threats and rapidly recovers data or computer systems. It includes award-winning technologies from the market-leading endpoint security, messaging security, and backup and recovery vendor.

Symantec Protection Suite
Small Business Edition provides multiple layers of protection with unmatched defense against email-borne threats and security risks. This all-inclusive suite creates a secure environment where computer system failures, malware, and spam risks are accurately identified and addressed immediately. Symantec Protection Suite Small Business Edition also enables reliable recovery of data in seconds or complete systems in minutes, ensuring high availability and avoiding business-interruption threats.

Small businesses can now save both time and money with this ready-to-go, comprehensive suite that is trouble-free and straightforward to install, deploy and manage. Intuitive interfaces, pre-configured settings, and built-in wizards help users get up to speed quickly without the need for special training. Rely on Symantec’s trusted research that utilizes one of the world’s leading scalable security infrastructures, the Symantec Global Intelligence Network, which gives Symantec unmatched insight into today’s threats, as well as real-time security intelligence, to provide early threat warnings and protection from newly discovered risks. With superior security, easy management features, and rapid recovery capabilities, this all-inclusive suite is designed for small businesses so you can have confidence that your assets are continuously protected so you can focus on running your business.

Key benefits

Complete protection
Delivers multiple layers of protection for your business

• Deploy proven technologies – Protect with confidence with the market-leading endpoint security, messaging security, and data and system protection vendor
• Protect against more threats – Create a protected environment where computer system failures, malware, and spam risks are accurately identified and addressed immediately
• Complete data and system recovery – Recover individual files and folders in seconds or entire computer systems in minutes, even to different computer systems or virtual environments
• Protect end-to-end – Actively protect from unknown threats for laptops, desktops, and messaging servers with more than traditional anti-virus and anti-spyware

Easy management
Simple to install, deploy, and manage

• Simplify implementation – Quickly deploy with minimal disruption to your environment through easy management and optimized system resources
• Use effortlessly – Easy-to-use, intuitive interfaces and built-in wizards help customers get up to speed quickly without special training
• Eliminate complexity – Improve productivity with preconfigured notifications, settings, and scheduled reports
• Streamline processes – Eliminate additional steps and costs with one decision, one purchase and one vendor for complete protection

Confidence always
Ensures systems and critical information are readily available

• Ensure business continuity – Have confidence that your business assets are protected against new threats through automated, event-driven backups
• Reliable, automated recovery – Easily restore entire computer systems back to an exact point-in-time without the need for manual and lengthy error-prone processes
• Minimize downtime – Get your computer systems back up and running in minutes, not hours or days

Key features

Endpoint security
More than anti-virus

• Anti-virus and anti-spyware – Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition provides unmatched, best-of-breed malware protection, including market-leading anti-virus protection, enhanced spyware protection, new rootkit protection, reduced memory footprint, and new dynamic performance adjustments to keep users productive
• Network threat protection – A rules-based firewall engine and Generic Exploit Blocking (GEB) block malware before it can enter a system
• Proactive threat protection – Protecting against unseen threats (i.e., zero-day threats), it includes Symantec TruScan™ Proactive Threat Scan, which does not rely on a signature single agent and single management console. It also includes Symantec™ Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition that provides anti-virus, anti-spyware, desktop firewall, and IPS on a single agent – all managed by a single management console

Messaging security
Antispam and messaging security protection – The Symantec Brightmail™ based anti-spam technology delivers greater than 97 percent effectiveness and a false positive rate of less than one in a million, making it one of the industry’s most accurate solutions.

• Scans inbound and outbound email traffic for virus, spam, and phishing attacks
• Provides integrated content filtering for policy enforcement, blocking inappropriate content and restricting confidential information from being sent
• Delivers automatic spam signature updates to help ensure effective, real-time protection against new threats
• Offers unparalleled protection, as evidenced by setting an industry record – more than 40 consecutive VB100 awards since 1999
• Provides real-time analytics and reporting, gaining visibility into email usage and growth patterns

Backup and recovery
Symantec Backup Exec System Recovery Desktop Edition enables rapid, reliable recovery of computer data and systems

• Create while-you-work backups of the entire system, without disrupting user productivity
• Home page view immediately identifies the backup status of computer systems
• Run backups automatically when the Symantec ThreatCon level reaches or exceeds the level you specify

About Symantec

Symantec is a global leader in providing security, storage, and systems management solutions to help consumers and organizations secure and manage their information-driven world. Our software and services protect against more risks at more points, more completely and efficiently, enabling confidence wherever information is used or stored.

System Requirements

Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition Client Workstations and Servers
Hardware:

• Processor: 1GHz Intel® Pentium® III processor or compatible architecture minimum (32-bit and 64-bit)
  Note: Itanium is not supported.

Operating Systems / Browsers:

• Windows 2000 Professional/Server, Windows XP (32-bit, 64-bit), Windows XP Embedded, Windows Vista (32-bit, 64-bit), Windows Server 2003 (32-bit, 64-bit), Windows Server 2008 (32-bit, 64-bit), Windows Small Business Server 2008 (64-bit), or Windows Essential Business Server 2008 (64-bit)

Memory:

• 256MB RAM, 1GB recommended
• Hard Disk (min) 700MB

Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition Management Server
Hardware:

• Processor: 1GHz Intel® Pentium® III processor or compatible architecture minimum (32-bit and 64-bit)
  Note: Itanium is not supported

Operating Systems / Browsers:

• Windows 2000 Server, Windows XP (32-bit, 64-bit), Windows Server 2003 (32-bit, 64-bit), Windows Server 2008 (32-bit, 64-bit), Windows Small Business Server 2008 (64-bit), or Windows Essential Business Server 2008 (64-bit)

Memory (min):

• 1GB of RAM minimum, 2GB recommended

Hard Disk (min):

• 4GB or more

AntiVirus for Macintosh Administration Server
Hardware:

• Xserve G5, Xserve, Power Mac® G5, Power Mac G4, Macintosh Server G4, Power Macintosh G3 (Blue & White), Macintosh Server G3 (Blue & White), iMac, eMac, Mac mini computer, built-in FireWire

Operating Systems/Browsers:

• Mac OS® X Server 10.4.11–10.5.x
• Note: Mac OS X Server 10.4 and 10.5 includes Apache and MySQL

Memory:

• 256MB RAM, 512MB RAM for high-demand servers running multiple services

Hard Disk (min): 4GB

Antivirus for Macintosh Client
Hardware:

• G4 800MHz
• Operating Systems / Browsers: Mac OS X 10.4.11-10.5.x
• Memory (min):19 MB RAM
• Hard Disk (min): 40MB

AntiVirus for Macintosh Administration Console

• Mac OS X + Safari 1.2x, Firefox 2
• Windows XP Pro + Internet Explorer 6 SP2
• Red Hat® Linux + Netscape 7

AntiVirus for Macintosh Client

• Hardware: G4 800MHz
• Operating Systems / Browsers: MacOS X 10.4.11-10.5.x
• Memory (min): 192MB RAM
• Hard Disk (min): 40MB

Mail Security for Exchange Hardware
Processor:

• Intel server-class 32-bit (for Server 2003 x64 or Server 2008 x64)
• Intel 64-bit that supports Extended Memory 64 Technology or AMD 64-bit (for Exchange Server 2007)

Operating Systems / Browsers
Microsoft® Windows:

• 2000 Server, Advanced Server, Data Center (Service Pack 4 or higher)
• Server 2003 Standard Ed., Enterprise Ed., Data Center Ed. (Service Pack 1 or higher)
• Server 2003 x64 or R2 x64 Standard Ed., Enterprise Ed.
• Server 2008 x64 Standard Ed., Enterprise Ed. Small Business Server

Console-only installation:

• Windows 2000 (Service Pack 4 or higher)
• Windows 2003 (Service Pack 1 or higher)
• Windows XP (Service Pack 1 or higher)

Software:

• .NET Framework v.2
• Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC) 2.8 or higher
• Microsoft DirectX® 9.0

Memory (min):

• 512MB RAM
• 1GB RAM for Windows Server 2003 x64 or Windows Server 2008 x64
• 2GB RAM for Exchange Server 2007

Hard Disk (min): 325MB

Backup Exec System Recovery Desktop Edition 8.5 Hardware
Processor: 233 MHz or greater, as required by the operating system

Operating Systems / Browsers
Windows 32-bit or 64-bit operating systems including:

• Windows Vista Ultimate
• Windows Vista Business
• Windows Vista Enterprise
• Windows XP Professional/Home (SP2 or later)
• Windows XP Media Center

Memory (min):

• Backup Exec System Recovery Agent: 512MB
• Backup Exec System Recovery user interface and Recovery Point Browser: 512MB
• Symantec Recovery Disk: 512MB minimum (dedicated)
  Note: If you are installing a multilingual version of the product, you must have a minimum of 768MB of RAM (dedicated) to run the multilingual version of the Symantec Recovery Disk.
• Backup Exec System Recovery LightsOut Restore feature: 1GB

Hard Disk (min):
When installing the entire product:

• Approximately 250MB to 390MB, depending on the language of the product you are installing
• Microsoft .NET Framework 2.0: 280MB of hard disk space required for 32-bit computers, and
• 610MB for 64-bit computers
• Recovery points: Sufficient hard disk space on a local hard disk or network server for storing recovery points
• Backup Exec System Recovery LightsOut Restore feature: 2GB