Symantec ANTIVIRUS 5.2 - FOR NETWORK ATTACHED STORAGE User manual

Data Sheet: Messaging Security
Symantec AntiVirus™ V5.2 for Network Attached Storage
Fast, scalable, and reliable scanning services to protect against viruses, malware and spyware.
OverviewOverview
Symantec AntiVirus for Network Attached Storage provides
scalable, high-performance virus scanning and repair
services to protect valuable data stored on network-
attached storage devices. This solution provides increased
scanning performance and improved detection capabilities
for protection against multi-blended threats. Symantec
AntiVirus for Network Attached Storage employs award-
winning Symantec antivirus technologies using Symantec™
Scan Engine to detect viruses, worms, and Trojan horses in
all major file types, including mobile code and compressed-
file formats. Virus definitions and engines are updated
automatically with no interruption in virus scanning using
Symantec LiveUpdate™. For even more frequent updates
version 5.2 support Rapid Release. The solution easily
accommodates growing traffic volumes with load-balancing
across multiple servers running this software, providing
highly scalable virus protection,. Symantec AntiVirus for
Network Attached Storage is certified for a long list of
leading network-attached storage devices. The solution
runs on Microsoft® Windows® 2000 Server and Windows
Server 2003 (on x86 platforms), Sun™ Solaris™ 9/10 (on
SPARC platforms), Red Hat® Enterprise Linux® Server 4.0/
5.0 (on x86 platforms), and SuSE Enterprise Linux Server
9/10 (on x86 platforms).
What’s New in 5.2What’s New in 5.2
• Improved performance through changes to default
tuning parameters
• Rapid Release antivirus definition support
• Resource consumption reporting including details on:
⁃Running threads
⁃Scan statistics
⁃Number of processors in use by SAV for NAS
⁃Log file size and available disk space
• Support for Symantec Security Information Manager
(SSIM)
• Added support for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 and SuSE
Enterprise Linux 10
Key benefitsKey benefits
• Provides high-performance scanning of files for viruses,
malware, spyrware, worms, and Trojan horses
• Easily integrates with third-party NAS devices via version
1.0 of the ICAP protocol
• Delivers statistical and detailed activity reports that can
be viewed in HTML or exported to CSV format
• Delivers consumption reporting to show how resources
are being used
• Improved alerting allows event triggers to be sent via
email or SNMP alerts when a predetermined number of
events occur
• Central quarantine allows administrators to redirect all
irreparable, virus-infected files to a safe area on a
centralized server
• Improved logging captures more event details
• User friendly Java™ based GUI to easily manage SAV for
NAS. Includes a home page with valuable statistical and
system information
Advantages of SAV for NASAdvantages of SAV for NAS
• Uses the same AV technology in ALL Symantec AV
products (Norton, SAVCE, SEP)
• Only AV engine that has been the leader in the last 40
Virus Bulletin tests see next slide
• Scalable solution, can run many SAV for NAS servers in
parallel and use round robin DNS to load balance
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⁃One-to-one, one-to-many, many-to-one and many-to-
many connections between application and scan
engine
• Uses industry Standard ICAP protocol for communication
• Runs on Red Hat Linux, SuSE Linux, Windows 2000 and
2003 Server and Solaris SPARC
• Best performing server based AV in the industry
• Backed up by Symantec’s worldwide Security Response
organization
• Viruses research centers in every region of the world
• Lowest false positive rate of any major AV vendor
• Supports Rapid Release
⁃Virus definitions updated every 30 minutes
Supported NAS Devices
The following Network Attached Storage devices have been
validated by their vendor to work with SAV 5.2 for NAS:
• BlueArc® Titan NAS Server (version 4.0 or later)
• EMC Celerra® Network Server (Celerra Antivirus Agent
3.6 or later)
• Hitachi® AMS/WMS with NAS Option (version 04-03 or
later)
• Hitachi® High-performance NAS Platform™ (version 4.0
or later)
• Hitachi® USP/NSC NAS Blade (version 03-07 or later)
• Network Appliance™ (NetApp) Filer™ (Data ONTAP™
version 6.1.3R2 or later)
• Sun® StorageTek™ 5000 NAS Appliance (Sun NAS
Firmware 4.20 or later
• Sun® StorageTek™ 9990 NAS/9985 NAS (version 03-07
or later
• Sun® StorageTek™ 7000 NAS version 2008.10
Check the SAV 5.2 for NAS web page on www.symantec.com
for additional NAS devices that have been certified after the
release of this datasheet.
System requirementsSystem requirements
• A software application or network device capable of
making a TCP/IP connection over a network to the
Symantec Scan Engine for each file (request) to be
scanned
• Supported Operating Systems
⁃Windows 2008 (32-bit and 64-bit)
⁃Windows 2008 R2
⁃Windows 2000 Server with the latest service pack
⁃Windows 2003 (32-bit and 64-bit)
⁃Windows Server 2003 R2 (32-bit)
⁃Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.x (32-bit and 64-bit)
⁃Solaris(SPARC) 9 and 10 (32-bit)
⁃Red Hat Linux Enterprise Server 3 and 4 (32-bit)
⁃Red Hat Linux Advanced Server 3 and 4 (32-bit)
⁃2.4 GHz Intel® Pentium® 4 or 1 GHz SPARC processor
⁃SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 and 10 (32-bit)
⁃All the supported operating systems are supported
• Supported Browsers
⁃Mozilla Firefox 1.5 or later
⁃Microsoft Internet Explorer 6 (SP1) or later
⁃Minimum Hardware Configuration
⁃2.4 GHz Pentium 4 or 1 GHz SPARC
⁃Java 5 or 6
⁃1 GB RAM
⁃500 MB hard disk space available
⁃NIC running TCP/IP with a static IP address
Data Sheet: Messaging Security
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Data Sheet: Messaging Security
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