Gradian Systems Ltd

Symantec's Endpoint Protection with Cyber Defence Manager

Symantec Endpoint Protection 15 defines cloud-delivered endpoint security with multilayered defense, simplified single agent/single console management with AI-guided policy updates, and the broadest set of integrations available.

Features

  • Cyber Defense Manager: AI-guided security management
  • Antivirus - Firewall and Intrusion Prevention
  • Host Integrity - System Lockdown - Power Eraser
  • Global Intelligence Network (GIN) Reputation Analysis
  • Advanced Machine Learning and Emulator
  • Memory Exploit Mitigation - Intelligent Threat Cloud’s - Behavior Monitoring
  • Hardening : Application Control
  • Threat Defense for Active Directory
  • Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR)
  • Mobile Threat Protection capabilities

Benefits

  • Protect endpoints from all attack vectors at industry leading efficacy
  • Enable business with a high-performance, lightweight solution
  • Unparalleled endpoint visibility and protection with telemetry (GIN)
  • Simplified management with single cloud console
  • Reduce endpoint security management complexity
  • AI-guided security management
  • Broadest integrations

Pricing

£8.47 a user

  • Free trial available

Service documents

Framework

G-Cloud 12

Service ID

9 1 9 9 8 8 2 4 6 6 0 3 6 2 7

Contact

Gradian Systems Ltd

Ciaran O'Rourke

07770 377 936

ciaran.orourke@gradian.co.uk

Service scope

Software add-on or extension
No
Cloud deployment model
Public cloud
Service constraints
In order to properly use the service Internet connection is required.
System requirements
  • Client Workstation and Server : windows and Mac OS
  • Management Console OS Windows 2008 64 bit & R2
  • Management Console OS Windows Windows 2012 Windows 2016
  • Web Browser supported: Internet Explorer 11 Mozilla Firefox 5
  • Web Browser supported: Google Chrome 66 Microsoft Edge
  • Virtual Environments - Microsoft Azure - Amazon WorkSpaces
  • Virtual Environments VMware ESX 2.5 VMware ESXi 4.1 - 5.5
  • Virtual Environments Microsoft Virtual Server and Hyper V
  • Windows Hardware 32/64 -bit processor
  • Mac Hardware 64-bit Intel Core 2 Duo or later

User support

Email or online ticketing support
Email or online ticketing
Support response times
Please see Gradian's Support Guide attached.
User can manage status and priority of support tickets
Yes
Online ticketing support accessibility
None or don’t know
Phone support
Yes
Phone support availability
24 hours, 7 days a week
Web chat support
No
Onsite support
Yes, at extra cost
Support levels
Please see Gradian's Support Guide attached.
Support available to third parties
No

Onboarding and offboarding

Getting started
Gradian possess the skills and support to configure, deploy, support and run this service on your behalf. These services can be found under Gradian's Professional Service and Gradian's Managed Configuration Service. Alternatve support options can be found under Gradian's Technical Account Service Plan (T.A.S.P) and Gradian Support for Symantec Products.
Service documentation
Yes
Documentation formats
Other
Other documentation formats
PowerPoint
End-of-contract data extraction
30 days after the end of the contract the user / buyer's instance and its data will be deleted. There is no additional cost.
End-of-contract process
30 days after the end of the contract the user / buyer's instance and its data will be deleted. There is no additional cost.

Using the service

Web browser interface
Yes
Supported browsers
  • Internet Explorer 11
  • Microsoft Edge
  • Firefox
  • Chrome
Application to install
Yes
Compatible operating systems
  • MacOS
  • Windows
Designed for use on mobile devices
No
Service interface
Yes
Description of service interface
The cloud interface is a management console that allows administrators to deploy clients, configure policies, have visibility of security events on the clients via dashboards, notifications, logs and reports.
Accessibility standards
None or don’t know
Description of accessibility
The cloud management console can be accessed by logging in at https://securitycloud.symantec.com/cc/#/landing
Accessibility testing
None.
API
Yes
What users can and can't do using the API
The method that you use to make the call to the API. Which method you use depends on the API and what you want to accomplish with the API. Methods include GET, PUT, POST, and DELETE. https://apidocs.symantec.com/home/sep_15
API documentation
Yes
API documentation formats
  • HTML
  • PDF
API sandbox or test environment
No
Customisation available
Yes
Description of customisation
The service provides many options to configure security policies and policies can be applied to specific groups of assets as required. Policy configurations are set directly, and simply, through a web based management console. Configuration activities can be undertaken by staff with administrative privileges.

Scaling

Independence of resources
Symantec Cyber Defence Manager is built on a scalable elastic cloud service running on a main stream cloud infrastructure provider environment.

Analytics

Service usage metrics
Yes
Metrics types
It provides information regarding enrolled users and devices, device security status, threats prevented, suspicious detection, recent security event, network integrity event, isolation coverage for vulnerability Apps & suspicious detection.
Reporting types
  • API access
  • Real-time dashboards
  • Regular reports
  • Reports on request

Resellers

Supplier type
Reseller providing extra features and support
Organisation whose services are being resold
Symantec's

Staff security

Staff security clearance
Other security clearance
Government security clearance
Up to Developed Vetting (DV)

Asset protection

Knowledge of data storage and processing locations
Yes
Data storage and processing locations
EU-US Privacy Shield agreement locations
User control over data storage and processing locations
No
Datacentre security standards
Managed by a third party
Penetration testing frequency
At least every 6 months
Penetration testing approach
In-house
Protecting data at rest
  • Physical access control, complying with CSA CCM v3.0
  • Physical access control, complying with SSAE-16 / ISAE 3402
  • Encryption of all physical media
  • Scale, obfuscating techniques, or data storage sharding
  • Other
Other data at rest protection approach
All data is encrypted via a Symantec-approved encryption solution when in transit, in use, or at rest and may be transmitted via a Symantec-approved tool.
Data sanitisation process
Yes
Data sanitisation type
  • Explicit overwriting of storage before reallocation
  • Deleted data can’t be directly accessed
Equipment disposal approach
Complying with a recognised standard, for example CSA CCM v.30, CAS (Sanitisation) or ISO/IEC 27001

Data importing and exporting

Data export approach
There are several choices on the product console to export incidents or devices information through pdf, and HTML. Also connects via a REST API, and third party remote monitoring and management solution.
Data export formats
  • CSV
  • Other
Other data export formats
  • RESP API - XML
  • HTML
  • PDF
Data import formats
CSV

Data-in-transit protection

Data protection between buyer and supplier networks
  • TLS (version 1.2 or above)
  • IPsec or TLS VPN gateway
Data protection within supplier network
  • TLS (version 1.2 or above)
  • IPsec or TLS VPN gateway

Availability and resilience

Guaranteed availability
The Symantec Endpoint Protection Cloud data center is delivered and deployed through Amazon Web Services (AWS) EC2 Cloud, providing flexibility, availability and scalability. Our service status site provides transparency around service availability and performance for Symantec cloud products. By subscribing to the Symantec Status website, customers can be alerted of service issues outages and informed of scheduled maintenance to Symantec's cloud products, in a single view. The availability and performance of the service can be viewed via the portal below: Symantec Status Cloud Product : https://status.symantec.com/
Approach to resilience
The service is running within a top tier cloud provider environment, which is designed be resilient. Each critical component of the service can be failed over to other nodes in the infrastructure. The failover process is automatic, triggered by specific service monitoring infrastructure. Backups of production systems are taken daily and prior to any major upgrade or Symantec initiated configuration change. Backups are stored in an encrypted format and allow, in the event of a disaster, the creation of a replica environment. Disaster recovery scenarios are tested periodically by the Symantec operations team.
Outage reporting
Via Email alerts, dashboards the Symantec service status web page. Email - Recieve email notifications whenever an incident is created or updated. SMS - Receive SMS notifications whenever an incident is created or updated. WebHook - Notifications are HTTPS POST requests that are sent to registered endpoints. For more information see Symantec Status Page Webhook Notifications. Twitter - Follow @SymantecStatus on Twitter for an automated feed of impacting incidents. RSS/Atom - Get the Atom Feed or RSS Feed on each of the product profile pages. Subscribing to Symantec Status INFO4285 March 26th, 2019 https://www.symantec.com/docs/INFO4285

Identity and authentication

User authentication needed
Yes
User authentication
  • 2-factor authentication
  • Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google Apps)
  • Username or password
  • Other
Other user authentication
User authenticate through the services' management portal by providing credential for identification (email address) and authentication mechanism to access the service
Identity Provider can be used for identity federation
Secure authentication with 2 factor authentications can be implemented for the service.
Access restrictions in management interfaces and support channels
Access to production servers or their managing interfaces is strictly controlled. Such access is restricted to personnel who require this access to perform their duties. Access to these systems is controlled via a two-factor authentication process. Access controls to production servers are reviewed every six months at a minimum.
Access restriction testing frequency
At least every 6 months
Management access authentication
  • 2-factor authentication
  • Identity federation with existing provider (for example Google Apps)
  • Username or password
  • Other
Description of management access authentication
Management access for the service is done through Cyber Defense Manager hosting several security console solutions. Access to the backend servers for Cyber Defense Manager and/or console for security solutions is done by our internal technical support.

Audit information for users

Access to user activity audit information
Users contact the support team to get audit information
How long user audit data is stored for
Between 1 month and 6 months
Access to supplier activity audit information
Users contact the support team to get audit information
How long supplier audit data is stored for
Between 1 month and 6 months
How long system logs are stored for
At least 12 months

Standards and certifications

ISO/IEC 27001 certification
No
ISO 28000:2007 certification
No
CSA STAR certification
No
PCI certification
No
Other security certifications
No

Security governance

Named board-level person responsible for service security
No
Security governance certified
Yes
Security governance standards
Other
Other security governance standards
Information available on request.
Information security policies and processes
Security governance approach SEP Cloud has assigned our CISO, as its Information Security Officer. The security officer’s main responsibility is protecting the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of SEP Clouds data and computing assets. Other key responsibilities include:
• Product security architecture and strategy
• Vulnerability management
• Security incident response
• Risk assessment and audit
• Security awareness
• Periodic review of information security policy SEP Cloud performs regular risk assessments. Security policy can be provided if is needed."

Operational security

Configuration and change management standard
Supplier-defined controls
Configuration and change management approach
All code changes being deployed to production undergo a mandatory code review as well as an automatic inspection process. Configuration changes are managed and documented by the SEP 15 DevOps team.
Vulnerability management type
Supplier-defined controls
Vulnerability management approach
Symantec has a formal process for handling and managing vulnerabilities. For any externally reported issues, Symantec follows the process outlined in ISO 29147, Information technology — Security techniques — Vulnerability disclosure ([ISO/IEC 29147:2014(E)]). Symantec'c Software Security Group works with the impacted team(s) to :recreate the environment and issue within Symantec’s labs for an expedited resolution, facilitate a prompt and accurate response, avoid delays in new Symantec releases.
Protective monitoring type
Supplier-defined controls
Protective monitoring approach
A layered set of tools provide monitoring for the production environment, protecting against potential threats or errors. An internal notification mechanism is in place to alert operations and support teams on issues detected in production. The service support engineering team prioritise their work based on severity and impact.
Incident management type
Supplier-defined controls
Incident management approach
Symantec’s Security Incident Response Plan documents repeatable, industry standard procedures for handling actual cyber threats when they arise. It also provides the necessary engagement and information-sharing processes to allow prompt coordination among all relevant stakeholders, and describes the reporting, communication, containment, investigation, and recovery mechanisms that exist to support a comprehensive end-to-end process flow from threat detection through remediation. The development and implementation of this forward-looking plan supports Symantec’s ultimate mission to its customers, partners, shareholders, and employees as a trusted leader in information security risk management. Customers can raise incidents directly with Symantec support, by phone or web portal.

Secure development

Approach to secure software development best practice
Supplier-defined process

Public sector networks

Connection to public sector networks
No

Pricing

Price
£8.47 a user
Discount for educational organisations
No
Free trial available
Yes
Description of free trial
30 Day Free Trial managed by our in house 'proof of concept' team.

Service documents

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