Security Solutions Optimized for Amazon Web Services

Symantec Cloud Workload Protection automates security for public cloud workloads, enabling business agility, risk reduction, and cost savings for organizations, while easing DevOps and administrative burdens. Rapid discovery, visibility, and elastic protection of AWS and Azure workloads enable automated security policy enforcement to protect applications from unknown exploits.

Cloud-native integration allows DevOps to build security directly into application deployment workflows, while support for Chef and Puppet automates configuration, provisioning, and patching. Access to the Symantec Global Intelligence Network protects workloads against the latest global attacks and vulnerabilities, providing peace of mind for large enterprises and born-in-the-cloud businesses.

Enterprises migrating workloads to AWS and cloud-native businesses will benefit from:

• Visibility and control of public cloud workloads
• Elastic security for their dynamic cloud infrastructure
• Mitigation of risk associated with public cloud adoption

Many apps and services running on AWS utilize S3 buckets for storage. Over time, storage can become contaminated with malware, ransomware, and other threats - either from attackers, unwitting users, or other resources. From S3 buckets, threats can propagate to additional apps, users, or databases. Cloud Workload Protection for Storage automatically scans S3 buckets using Symantec's suite of anti-malware technologies to keep your cloud storage and services clean.

• Enables secure adoption of containers and serverless technologies such as AWS Lambda
• Near real-time and scheduled scanning of S3 buckets helps to prevent threats and malware from being spread by cloud-based applications and users
• Discovers and blocks the latest threats using Symantec's suite of anti-malware technologies including reputation analysis and advanced machine learning
• Automatic protection of S3 buckets minimizes DevOps and administrative workloads
• Threat scanning infrastructure scales elastically with load for cost optimization

Control Compliance Suite delivers business-aware security and risk visibility so that customers are effectively able to align priorities across security, IT operations, and compliance. It automates continuous assessments and delivers a unified view of security controls and vulnerabilities. Customers can deploy Control Compliance Suite on-premises or on Amazon Web Services (AWS) to assess their AWS instances and applications. With Control Compliance Suite, customers are able to harden the data center, prioritize security remediation, enable the secure migration to the software-defined data center, and support continuous assessments for Cyber Security and Continuous Monitoring.

Symantec Protection Engine for Cloud Services is a flexible and feature rich client/server application that allows customers to incorporate malware and threat detection technologies into almost any application. Protection Engine includes Symantec's proprietary, patented URL categorization technology and industry-leading malware protection for fast, scalable, and reliable content scanning services. These services help organizations protect their data and storage systems against the ever-growing malware threat landscape.

Customers can now confidently deploy workloads containing confidential data to the Amazon cloud with Symantec’s market-leading data loss prevention (DLP) solution. Symantec Data Loss Prevention provides comprehensive coverage and unified management of your confidential data across the Amazon Web Services (AWS) cloud and your on-premises environment.

Symantec Data Loss Prevention is a content-aware data security solution that discovers, monitors and protects confidential data stored across the AWS cloud, including AWS-hosted instances of Microsoft Exchange and Microsoft SharePoint. Unlike other security solutions that provide limited DLP controls, Symantec delivers deep content inspection, sophisticated policy and incident management, and proven scalability and performance. With AWS and Data Loss Prevention, businesses can confidently deploy workloads to the cloud without sacrificing control over of their confidential data.

Symantec Endpoint Protection provides defense in depth, whether in the cloud or on-premises. Get machine learning, behavioral, cross-vector protection, and network protection/ firewall as part of complete anti-malware protection. Validated by third-party tests, Symantec Endpoint Protection is the most effective intelligent endpoint security solution available on the market. Reduce the complexity of advanced threat protection with AWS workloads and maximize your AWS protection and performance with Symantec Endpoint Protection. Available two ways - BYOL or metered.

The Symantec Endpoint Protection Manager runs on an EC2 instance. Depending on your instance count, choose a matching instance size: 10 instances - m4.large; 100 instances - m4.xlarge; 250 instances - m4.2xlarge; 500 instances - c4.2xlarge.

Highlights

• Granular control - Proactively secure your ecosystem with policy-based system lockdown and application control, including advanced whitelisting and blacklisting for greater protection and productivity, and Host Integrity to detect unauthorized changes, conduct damage assessments, and ensure endpoint protection and compliance.
• Smarter management - Exert granular policy control through a single high-powered client and management console across both physical and virtual machines, making it easy to deploy, update, and manage your endpoint security across various locations, user groups, and operating systems.
  

Cloud computing is an option for computing in which dynamically scalable and often virtualized resources are provided as a service over a network. Hosting services on the internet are referred to as "Public Clouds," while hosting services on an internal network is referred to as a "Private Cloud."

Amazon Web Services (AWS) is an infrastructure-as-a-service provider, serving companies of all sizes. With AWS, companies can requisition compute power, storage, and other services, gaining access to a suite of elastic IT infrastructure services, as business demands them.

The five essential characteristics of cloud computing:

1. On-demand self-service
2. Broad network access
3. Resource pooling and multi-tenancy
4. Rapid elasticity
5. Metered service

For More information on Cloud Computing, see the NIST Special Publication 800-145, “The NIST Definition of Cloud Computing”.

• Cloud, by definition, means some loss of control and visibility.
• Majority of the risks originate from the components that are managed by the subscriber. Application and instance security are soft targets for malicious hackers.
• Attempts to retrofit on-premises security controls and patterns to secure applications and instances in the public cloud are ineffective due to differences in the architecture between on-premises and public cloud infrastructures.
• Customers using AWS must have a solid understanding of the “AWS Shared Security Responsibility Model”.
  

Symantec recognizes Amazon Web Services (AWS) as a leading cloud infrastructure-as-a-service provider and has partnered with AWS to bring Symantec's products that are optimized for these environments. The Symantec products that support AWS are designed to deliver security at the application and instance levels, which are the subscriber-controlled components in the AWS Shared Security Responsibility Model. Symantec therefore complements the cloud infrastructure and network security that is provided by AWS security services.

Symantec does not endorse or resell AWS offerings nor does AWS resell any of Symantec's products. Customers are encouraged to evaluate the product and service offerings made available by Symantec and AWS, and identify how each solution would benefit a particular use-case.