License Types:

-New: Licenses for users who do not currently own a Symantec or a competitors anti-virus product.
-Renewals: Licenses for existing users of Symantec anti-virus products. Renewal products are for user licenses that are about to expire or have expired less than 60 days ago.
-Upgrade: Licenses for users looking to upgrade from any previous licensed version of this software (or after license expires). Standard Upgrade licensing may also be used as a Competitive Upgrade option. Only available in a 1 year licensing package.

Symantec Endpoint Security:

*NEW Symantec Endpoint Protection is centrally managed via a single agent and single console providing:Antivirus, Antispyware, Desktop firewall, Intrusion prevention, device control.   (Replaces Symantec AntiVirus Corporate Edition & Symantec Client Security)

*NEW Symantec Endpoint Protection Small Business Edition is centrally managed via a single agent and single console providing: Symantec Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange, as well as Antivirus, Antispyware, Desktop firewall, Intrusion prevention, and device control. (Replaces Symantec Client Security with Groupware Protection & Symantec AntiVirus with Groupware Protection)

*NEW Symantec Mult-Tier Protection is centrally managed via a single agent and single console providing: Symantec Mail Security for Domino, Symantec Mail Security for SMTP, Symantec Mail Security, as well as Microsoft Exchange, Antivirus, Antispyware, Desktop firewall, Intrusion prevention, and device control. (Replaces Symantec AntiVirus Enterprise Edition)

Symantec Network Access Control evaluates whether a laptop or desktop is properly protected and is a compliant device before allowing it to connect to the corporate network. Symantec Network Access Control controls connections to the corporate network. This helps prevent viruses and other attacks from entering the network through non-compliant clients. Unlike other Network Access Control (NAC) solutions, Symantec Network Access Control is an extremely flexible NAC solution which can interoperate with existing NAC infrastructures such as Cisco NAC and Microsoft NAP or can act as completely independent end-to-end NAC solution.

Symantec AntiSpam (basic) vs. Premium AntiSpam Add-on: Basic spam tools (Symantec AntiSpam (basic)) include heuristics-based detection, custom filtering rules, and real-time blacklists and whitelisting. By adding a license key, a Symantec Premium AntiSpam subscription can be integrated to provide accurate/real-time spam/fraud detection without additional administration, installation, or hardware. Symantec Premium AntiSpam leverages multiple filtering technologies, including spam signatures, heuristics, reputation filters, image spam, language identification, and proprietary methods, resulting in high detection rates of over 95% and the industry's highest accuracy rate against false positives (99.9999%). Automatic updates occur every 5-10 minutes.

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