Hey folks. Symantec has done somthing smart. They have taken the malware detection and network access control technologies that they acquired and integrated them into their client security. The new product that uses tech gathered from the purchase of WholeSecurity and Sygate respectively. Currently named Hamlet the new client is slated for release in 2007 according to CEO John Thompson. He was speaking at the Gartner Symposium/ITxpo in San Francisco.
Symantec’s software has traditionally used a kind of digital fingerprint, called a signature, in order to determine whether or not a program is malicious. The WholeSecurity “behavior-based” technology, on the other hand, decides whether or not the application is bad based on the kind of things it’s trying to do.The Sygate software makes sure that PCs and laptops that connect to corporate networks have appropriate security software installed.
This is great news for corporate environments if in fact it works as advertised. Gartner analysts posed the thought that this will be a big change for customers as it will require changing out the enterprise console. This shouldn’t really be that big of a deal as the current console is a roaring pile of crap. The only other aspect that I PRAY they are addressing is the clients voracious appetite for memory on a scan. Even with it set to the lowest level for memory usage the people being scanned have a solid hour before they have their system back. The Symantec lunch break. Other than that, it looks promising on the surface.
[tags]Symantec, John Thompson, Hamlet, Gartner, Symposium/ITxpo[/tags]