Solution Brief

Symantec Identity Security

Solutions Overview
Identities are under attack by cyber criminals hoping
to exploit user access and privileges to do harm.
Symantec Identity Security mitigates these attacks
by enforcing granular policies to stop unauthorized
access to sensitive resources and data.

The Most Comprehensive Protection

All users expect to have full access to their apps and data anytime, from
any location, and from any device. However, the open perimeter provides
Why is Identity Security even more opportunity for cyber criminals to attack your users. Symantec
Important? Identity Security delivers a layered, defense-in-depth identity and access
management platform that helps you implement a zero-trust model while
Compromised identities are the root
cause of many data breaches:
making it easy for your customers to do business with you.

• 51% of breaches are caused by Our Identity Security solutions protect your organization by positively
malicious attacks. identifying legitimate users, providing seamless access to applications,
• It takes an average of 279 days to enforcing granular security policies to stop unauthorized access to sensitive
identify and contain a breach. resources, and governing these access entitlements on an ongoing basis
• 74% of data breaches start with to ensure least-privileged posture. Symantec Identity Security protects
privileged credential abuse. identities and access across the hybrid environment while reducing the cost
of operations with scalability and performance.
• Over 1.5 Billion credentials are
available to hackers.
Figure 1: Identity Security Overview
• Over 30 Billion credentials used in
stuffing attacks.
• $3.92 Million is the average cost of
a data breach globally, $8.19 Million
in the US.
Get the most comprehensive and
scalable identity security solution
to help you protect and grow your
business.
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Solution Brief

Key Capabilities
Achieve Unparalleled Scalability
Symantec Identity Security is built for your demanding workloads. Whether it’s millions of users, hundreds of
applications, or billions of devices or transactions, our solution ensures that you maintain performance at scale
while minimizing the cost of deployment and operation.

Deploy Critical Use Cases Quickly

Symantec Identity Security can help you launch new applications and increase your capacity no matter how
complex your environment so that you can respond to the pressures of your business in real time.

Implement Comprehensive Zero Trust for People

Symantec Identity Security positively identifies and validates users before granting them access to corporate
resources and data, continuously monitors their activity, and can initiate mitigating actions if unusual behavior is
detected.

Support Evolving Compliance Requirements

Symantec Identity Security provides continuous authentication, manages and records privileged account activity,
ensures that least privilege is enforced, and delivers audit trails and reporting so that you can comply with
mandates such as GDPR, PSD2, and CCPA (California Consumer Privacy Act).

Market Awards
• Overall Leader in KuppingerCole Leadership Compass: Privileged Access Management 2020
• Overall Leader in KuppingerCole Leadership Compass: Identity Governance and Administration 2020
• Overall Leader in KuppingerCole Leadership Compass: Fraud Reduction Intelligence platforms 2020
• Overall Leader in KuppingerCole Leadership Compass: Access Management and Federation
• Leader in Gartner Magic Quadrant for Privileged Access Management 2018

Customer Insights
Symantec Identity Security Portfolio continues to get rave reviews and multiple awards for industry leadership,
performance, and efficacy.

“The most valuable “As far as software goes, “SiteMinder simply

feature is that SiteMinder SiteMinder is as close to does exactly what CA
is a rock-solid enterprise the energizer bunny as it (now Broadcom) says
solution. It’s the de facto gets.” it can do and that is to
standard. It works!” − Information Security Analyst, provide a solid, reliable,
Financial Services Company
− Security Architect, Financial robust solution for Web
Services Company
“We selected Symantec Access Control, Identity
“With Symantec PAM PAM because of Federation, Single Sign-
we have saved hundreds the initial ease of On.”
− IT Support Specialist, Finance
of hours in deployment implementation. We Industry
and integration costs, did a PoC and had the
compared to other appliances set up in less
solutions.” than a day.”
− Enterprise Architect, Fortune 500 − InfoSec Manager, Fortune 50
Company Company
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Solution Brief

A Look at the Portfolio

Symantec Identity Security Portfolio includes all of the capabilities you need to manage and control identities and
access to apps, data and infrastructure and is the only solution that allows you to scale to the size and performance
required of your user community.

Symantec Identity Symantec Privileged Symantec SiteMinder Symantec VIP

Governance and Access Management
Administration • Applies the appropriate • Cloud service built to
• Control, monitor, and record authentication mechanism support millions of users
privileged user activity to positively identify users
• Easy-to-use, business- • Integrated with all of
oriented interface across all environments • Provides single sign- Symantec security solutions
• Quick to deploy, easy to on (SSO) and identity
• Automated provisioning • Assesses risk based on
maintain federation
and deprovisioning of device identification,
entitlements • Can process and record • Enforces granular security geolocation, and user
significantly more policies behavior
• Self-service portal reduces
burden on help desk simultaneous requests than • Continuously monitors and • Wide range of multi-factor
the competition manages the entire user authentication methods:
• Virtual appliance form
• Both network-based and session Push, Risk-Based, SMS,
factor, reduces time-to-
agent-based architectures Biometrics, Hard Tokens
value and services costs
for flexibility

A Critical Component of the Symantec ICD Framework

Symantec Identity Security is one of the four core
components of the Symantec Integrated Cyber Defense Figure 2: ICD Framework Overview
(ICD) framework. With Identity Security, Information
Security, Endpoint Security, and Network Security
solutions, Symantec ICD safeguards your business
assets, while taking advantage of a platform that
shares threat intelligence to all Symantec customers.
Any discovered threat intelligence is shared between
solutions in the Integrated Cyber Defense Exchange
(ICDx) and with third parties for collaborative
integrations across security products. Additionally,
organizations can deliver integrated, multi-vector
security workflows that substantially reduce risk or
improve efficiency.

The Symantec ICD Platform unifies products, services,

and partners to drive down the cost and complexity
of cyber security, while protecting enterprises against
sophisticated threats. ICD combines information
protection, threat protection, identity and access
management, compliance and other advanced services,
powered by shared intelligence and automation across
endpoints, networks, applications, and clouds.

To learn more about these solutions and the Identity Security portfolio, go to Identity Security or reach out to
your Broadcom Sales Representative.

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