Stay one step ahead of internet criminals
In order to bypass conventional security measures, today’s internet criminals launch coordinated attacks across different protocols such as email, web and instant messaging (IM). For example, emails or instant messages often contain links to infected websites. In fact according to
MessageLabs Intelligence, the web has now become the primary vector for delivering malware.
Symantec Hosted Services addresses converged threats by checking links in an email or IM message to make sure that the website is safe. In this way, we give you comprehensive protection against these blended threats.
Protection from the most insidious threats
Symantec Hosted Services draws on extensive threat research and investment in order to deliver the highest levels of protection. Our proprietary
Skeptic technology analyses traffic across different protocols – email, web and IM – to detect blended threats. If it finds a threat in one medium it can protect customers against the same threat in other mediums delivering true protection from converged threats.
Accuracy, reliability, performance
The automatic sharing of knowledge gained in one protocol across all other protocols underpins MessageLabs Converged Threat Analysis. Security solutions that only focus on a single protocol such as email or web, or those that lack integration at the level of threat detection, may not sufficiently protect your business from malware and spyware designed to slip past single protocol security.
Because of Symantec Hosted Services powerful,
global infrastructure platform, we can provide this extra level of protection without affecting the performance of our services. Our industry leading service level agreements (SLAs) include average latency of no more than 100 milliseconds for web requests, average email scanning time of no more than 60 seconds, and 100% availability.