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.
Overview
Overview
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 5.2
What’s New in 5.2
• Improved performance through changes to default
tuning parameters
• Rapid Release antivirus definition support
• Resource consumption reporting including details on:
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Running threads
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Scan statistics
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Number of processors in use by SAV for NAS
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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 benefits
Key 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 NAS
Advantages 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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