Symantec Cloud Workload Protection: Service Overview and Insight

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Symantec is one of the world’s largest and most well know security firms, and it’s a reputation that stands up well with its cloud computing workload protection platform.

Organizations of all sizes can benefit from Symantec’s Cloud Workload Protection solution, which offers an easy, yet robust set of capabilities to help protect against different types of threats. It can work in a hybrid cloud or multicloud setting. Users generally are quite satisfied with the platform real-time visibility into cloud workload changes to help identify potential areas of risk.

Looking beyond just basic application workload visibility, a key differentiator is the application binary monitoring feature, which can identify if the core code behind a running cloud application has been tampered with.

Service Description:

Symantec Cloud Workload Protection is service that provides application security controls for public cloud infrastructure as well as on-premises virtualized infrastructure.

Organizations benefit from automated discovery capabilities that can identify running cloud software as well as security setting and controls. Real-time updates for infrastructure and application changes is a key capability of the offering, enabling organizations to respond quickly when something changes.

Threat protection is enabled with anti-malware scanning, application isolation and integrity checking for running for running workloads. Symantec also offers a service specifically for cloud storage to help keep AWS S3 buckets free from malware.

Features:

• Cloud workload visibility

• Infrastructure change monitoring

• Anti-malware scanning

• Application isolation

• File Integrity Monitoring (FIM)

• Process monitoring for suspicious behavior

Delivery:

On-premises and Software-as-a-Service options.

Use Cases:

Multicloud workload monitoring security

Pricing:

SaaS Contract with Flexible Pricing.
Small 1 vCPU server at $60 per server/ year
Medium – 2 or 3 vCPU at $174.96/server/year
Large – 4 or more vCPU at $350.04 / server/year

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