Symantec Critical System Protection
| Symantec Critical System Protection 5.2 protects against day zero attacks, hardens systems, and helps maintain compliance by enforcing behavior-based security policies on clients and servers. A centralized management console enables administrators to configure, deploy and maintain security policies, manage users and roles, view alerts, and run reports across heterogeneous operating systems. |
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Key Features
- Provides prevention techniques that shield operating systems, applications, and services by defining acceptable behaviors for each function.
- Protects systems from mis-use by unauthorized users and applications through system and device controls that lock down configuration settings, file systems, and the use of removable media.
- Provides monitoring, notification, and auditing features that ensure host integrity, system and regulatory compliance
- Enables cross-platform server auditing and compliance enforcement with graphical reporting engine featuring multiple queries and graphic formats to visually highlight data.
Key Benefits
- Broad platform support – Solaris, Windows, and Linux, with IDS functionality for AIX and HP-UX - and support for less common systems with Remote Edition.
- Centralized management console allows simplified, sophisticated administration of heterogeneous systems, reducing workload and providing better reporting.
- Integration with Symantec Security Information Manager and SNMP enables additional event management information and incident correlation.
- Flexible policies provide greater protection with minimal configuration, minimizes setup time while maintaining a high degree of application compatibility.




