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Symantec offers educational discounts on Symantec software to eligible organisations.
These discounts can be very attractive.
To quote Symantec:
"An Academic Institution must be organized and operated for educational purposes, such as a public or private school, college or university, and be accredited by an appropriate government board of education or accrediting organization. Other Qualified Institutions can include healthcare entities with a major teaching component or libraries owned and operated by a qualified Academic Institution. Qualified Charitable organizations are also eligible under the Academic Licensing Program."
You will find more info at: Symantec Academic Program.
Symantec Endpoint Protection 12.1
Symantec Endpoint is an antivrius software designed for networks. It gives you:
 State-of-the-art protection from the world leader in security
Integrated antivirus, antispyware, firewall, and intrusion prevention as well as device control and application control
Powerful central management of security for physical and virtual Windows and Mac endpoints
Enables instant upgrade to self-enforced network access control without additional software deployment
Antivirus and antispyware for Windows, Mac and Linux clients
Seamless migration from previous versions of Symantec Endpoint Protection
Secures both physical and virtual environments
Symantec Endpoint Protection 12.1 and Symantec Insight
Probably the hottest thing about Symantec Endpoint Protection 12.1 is Symantec Insight – competitors don't have anything like it.
It is Symantec's answer to the exponentially growing signature files and their impact on computer resources, etc.
Symantec’s Insight analyses the anonymous software adoption patterns from more than 175 million customer computers to automatically derive highly accurate security ratings for more than 2.5 billion unique software files. This means that Insight has ratings for virtually every software file, good or bad in existence.
This is then used by Norton and Symantec software to check new files against this knowledgebase and either stop or allow them.
Any files that are known to be okay are skipped in scanning. This means something like 70 percent are skipped. This improves scanning speed and reduces hardware churn. It also helps eleimiate false positives.
Meanwhile competing antivirus software, based on the traditional approach, is reactive, looking for digital fingerprints of viruses after they have been discovered. Not only does this tend to take longer when scanning the computer, but today’s criminals work differently. They mutate their malware, creating new, unique threats for each user.
To summarise: Symantec Insight puts Endpoint Protection 12.1 ahead of the competition and will probably keep Symantec ahead for the forseeable future.
For more information on Symantec Insight, watch the video:
If the video does not show on this page please click here: Symantec Insight video.
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