Symantec unveils new endpoint protection solution

Leading cyber security company Symantec Corporation on Wednesday announced "Symantec Endpoint Protection 14" -- powered by artificial intelligence (AI) on the endpoint and in the cloud for better security.

The "Endpoint Protection 14" is the industry's first solution to fuse essential endpoint technologies with advanced machine learning and memory exploit mitigation in a single agent, delivering a multi-layered solution to stop advanced threats, the company said in a statement.

The solution delivers protection in a lightweight package, building on industry-leading 99.9 percent efficacy, low false positives and a 70 per cent reduced footprint over the previous generation through new advanced cloud lookup capabilities.

"Multi-layered protection, enabled by AI, backed by the world's most powerful threat intelligence force and powered by the Cloud, this is literally the smartest choice in endpoint technologies," Tarun Kaura, Director, Solution Product Management, Asia Pacific and Japan of Symantec, said in a statement.

--IANS

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