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ESET Updates Cybersecurity for Mac and NOD32 Antivirus Business Edition for Mac OS X for Full Mountain Lion Compatibility

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San Diego, CA, August 7, 2012

ESET Updates Cybersecurity for Mac and NOD32 Antivirus Business Edition for Mac OS X for Full Mountain Lion Compatibility

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ESET, the leader in proactive protection celebrating 25 years of its technology this year, today announced that ESET Cybersecurity™ for Mac and ESET NOD32 Antivirus Business Edition for Mac OS X have been updated to be fully compatible with OS X Mountain Lion. These solutions when paired with OS X Mountain Lion provide a complete Internet security solution that actively detects and protects against viruses, worms, Trojan horses, keyloggers, spyware, malware, and more.

Mac OS X Mountain Lion introduces a host of new features, such as Gatekeeper, which makes downloading apps safer for Mac users. ESET has been fully vetted and digitally signed by Apple to be an approved app developer as it relates to the new Gatekeeper functionality.

Both ESET Cybersecurity for Mac and ESET NOD32 Antivirus Business Edition for Mac OS X have been specifically designed for Mac from the ground up and utilize the award-winning ThreatSense® antivirus scanning engine resulting in fully integrated solutions that work perfectly with OS X Mountain Lion. The formidable combination of ESET technology and OS X Mountain Lion proactively provide Mac users with extra layers of security, proactive protection, and detection features to keep their Mac safe from Internet-born threats.

Some of the key features of ESET Cybersecurity for Mac and ESET NOD32 Antivirus Business Edition for Mac OS X include an intuitive and easy-to-use interface, complimentary training of tips and techniques to educate users and get them up and running fast, and technology that runs seamlessly in the background to alleviate any impacts on overall performance.

Additional features of ESET Cybersecurity for Mac:

• All virus signature database updates are automatic, ensuring you are always up-to-date on your definitions.
• Online training that leads users through real-world scenarios via videos and education exercises (available for ESET Cybersecurity for Mac).
• On-demand and scheduled scans keep your device safe and allow you to scan various storage devices, including Time Machine archives.
• Proactive detection of Mac and Windows viruses, spyware, and other threats, using ESET’s ThreatSense technology.
• Intuitive and familiar OS X look and feel.
• Advanced setup for power-users to control scan depth, set file, folder or volume exclusions, set level of heuristics and much more.
• Scans removable media, including USB drives, CDs and DVDs, memory sticks, FireWire®, etc.
• Free technical support as with all ESET products.
• Easily managed on any network through ESET’s Remote Administrator (available for ESET NOD32 Antivirus Business Edition for Mac OS X).

  

Pricing and availability 

ESET Cybersecurity for Mac is available now for purchase at the ESET Online Store and pricing begins at $39.99 for a 1 year license or $59.99 for a 2-year license for a single user. Pricing becomes more cost-effective for multiple user licenses, for instance five seat licensing costs $99.99 for one year and $149.00 for two years.

ESET NOD32 Antivirus Business Edition for Mac OS X is available immediately through ESET’s website. Please contact ESET directly for pricing at http://go.eset.com/us/business/contact/.

About ESET

ESET is on the forefront of security innovation, delivering trusted protection to make the Internet safer forbusinesses and consumers. IDC has recognized ESET as a top five corporate anti-malware vendor and one of the fastest growing companies in its category. Trusted by millions of users worldwide, ESET is one of the most recommended security solutions in the world. ESET NOD32 Antivirus consistently achieves the highest accolades in all types of comparative testing, and powers the virus and spyware detection in ESET Smart Security and ESET Cybersecurity for Mac. Sold in more than 180 countries, ESET’s global headquarters is in Bratislava, Slovakia, with distribution headquarters for North America located in San Diego, California. ESET also has offices in Buenos Aires, Prague, Krakow and Singapore and is represented by an extensive global partner network. For more information, visit http://www.eset.com/us or call +1 (619) 876-5400.

Premiere Global Sports Deploys Symantec Solutions to Secure and Back Up Virtual Systems

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Premiere Global Sports Deploys Symantec Solutions to Secure and Back Up Virtual Systems

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – March 27, 2012 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced that Premiere Global Sports, a provider of specialized sports travel and hospitality products is using Symantec Protection Suite Enterprise Edition and Symantec Backup Exec to centralize protection of the company’s distributed endpoints. While Premiere Global Sports is a small business, the data they produce is growing on an enterprise scale and thus needs the protection of an enterprise-class solution. Since the deployment, Premiere Global Sports can protect, back up, and provide disaster recovery capabilities for its virtualized business systems.

Premiere Global Sports has grown by acquisition over the last decade, and as a result, most of its 75 full-time employees are distributed across the United States. Consequently, all of its endpoints were managed individually with a variety of antivirus products.

“Many of the companies we acquired were flying by the seat of their pants and didn’t have time to focus on IT infrastructure,” said Jason Drake, Premiere Global Sports’ director of infrastructure and security. “We were tasked with choosing expandable platforms that can meet more needs than we have right now.”

Centralizing Endpoint Protection

Based on past positive experiences, Drake selected Symantec Protection Suite Enterprise Edition to centralize protection of its distributed endpoints and to protect multiple independent servers and dozens of Windows endpoints. In addition to endpoint security, the Symantec Protection Suite Enterprise Edition license includes email server security, email and web gateway virtual appliances, and desktop system recovery. The Enterprise Edition will accommodate Premiere Global Sports’ future growth.

“Having Symantec Protection Suite in place—especially with its defense against zero-day threats—definitely makes me feel more at ease,” Drake said. “By leveraging the new security management solution, we can pinpoint security threats and increase the productivity of our security operations.”

Reliable Backup and Recovery for a Virtualized IT Environment

To support Premiere Global Sports’ growing business, Drake and his team chose Symantec Backup Exec to reduce downtime and ensure critical information on both their virtual and physical systems is always protected and restored in seconds.

“Our IT environment is 90 – 95 percent virtualized, and we continue to leverage this technology to reduce costs and the number of physical servers,” said Drake. “We have trusted Backup Exec to backup our data for several years and the transition from a physical server infrastructure to virtual infrastructure didn’t change our choice in a data protection solution.”

Backup Exec simplifies both backup and disaster recovery, allowing Drake to focus on strategic programs. Plus, Premiere Global Sports will soon begin beta testing Backup Exec 2012 as its deduplication features will streamline backup operations even further.

“Based on my testing, Backup Exec gives me the ability to recover both physical and virtual systems in case of a catastrophe,” Drake said. “Symantec’s V-Ray technology embedded in Backup Exec also allows us to easily expand to a virtual environment and feel confident in our decision.”

About Symantec

Symantec is a global leader in providing security, storage and systems management solutions to help consumers and organizations secure and manage their information-driven world. Our software and services protect against more risks at more points, more completely and efficiently, enabling confidence wherever information is used or stored. More information is available at www.symantec.com.

News Release from Panda Security

FEB 22, 2012

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Panda Security and Microsoft Join Forces to Develop Cloud-based Antivirus Security Services on Windows Azure

• The new beta version of Panda Cloud Office Protection 6.0 is hosted in Windows Azure, Microsoft’s cloud-based platform that provides developers with on-demand compute and storage to host, scale and manage Web applications on the Internet.
• The beta software can be downloaded for free athttp://www.pandasecurity.com/promotions/betatest/.

Panda Security, The Cloud Security Company, and Microsoft have signed a collaboration agreement to develop cloud-based antivirus security services on Windows Azure. The new version of Panda Cloud Office Protection 6.0 is hosted in Windows Azure, a cloud platform designed to host, scale and manage Web applications. Windows Azure uses a set of privacy and security controls that ensure maximum protection of its hosted data and applications.

“The agreement with Microsoft has increased our management capabilities. It has provided us with virtually unlimited IT infrastructure and enhanced our dynamic adjustment capabilities”, said Pedro Bustamante, Senior Research Advisor at Panda Security.

According to Gonzalo Díe, Director of Platforms and Development at Microsoft Ibérica, “The agreement with Panda Security has strengthened Microsoft’s leadership in the cloud computing arena. We are delighted that Panda Security, the first IT security company to harness the power of cloud computing, has chosen Windows Azure to streamline the processes related to Panda Cloud Office Protection. This partnership shows our continued commitment to bringing the most innovative solutions to market.”

New version with numerous improvements

Panda Cloud Office Protection 6.0 is a cloud-based security service for PCs, servers and corporate laptops managed remotely from anywhere through its Web-based console.

The new release includes device control technologies that prevent the spread of malware through the improper use of external devices such as USB flash drives, digital cameras, DVDs and more. These controls will allow organizations to improve productivity by enforcing policies to deny access, force read-only access, or grant total access on multiple device types via a single Web-based console.

In addition, Panda Cloud Office Protection includes policies to block dangerous malware activity, self-protection against malware designed to damage or remove the antivirus, and real-time access to Collective Intelligence, offering one of the best antivirus solutions on the market today.

Migration to Windows Azure

Panda Security decided to migrate its new solution to Windows Azure to be able to manage an even larger number of computers, effectively deploy the service to new countries and prevent service downtime. Windows Azure has provided an adequate work environment and let the company maintain most of the technologies used in the original platform.

The main benefits offered by Windows Azure to Panda Security are:

• Greatly reduces the time required to deploy a new product version.
• Reduces operating and maintenance costs by up to 30 percent.
• Improves certification and quality assurance processes, as it enables technicians to carry out tests in an environment equal to the production environment.
• Improves user-perceived application performance.

The major components of the Windows Azure platform are the following:

• Windows Azure. Windows Azure is a development, service hosting and service management environment that provides developers with on-demand compute and storage to host, scale and manage Web applications on the Internet through Microsoft data centers.
• Microsoft SQL Azure. Microsoft SQL Azure is a cloud-based relational database service built on SQL Server 2008 technologies.

To download the free beta, please visit: http://www.pandasecurity.com/promotions/betatest/pcop