Symantec 10268947 User Guide - Page 9

1 Chapter Introduction This chapter includes the following topics: ■ About the Symantec Network Security foundation ■ Finding information About the Symantec Network Security foundation The Symantec™ Network Security software and the Symantec Network Security 7100 Series appliance employ a common core architecture that provides detection, analysis, storage, and response functionality. Most procedures in this section apply to both the 7100 Series appliance and the Symantec Network Security 4.0 software. The 7100 Series appliance also provides additional functionality that is unique to an appliance. This additional functionality is described in detail in each section. This section includes the following topics: ■ About the Symantec Network Security 7100 Series ■ About other Symantec Network Security features About the Symantec Network Security 7100 Series Symantec™ Network Security 7100 Series security appliances provide real-time network intrusion prevention and detection to protect critical enterprise assets from the threat of known, unknown (zero-day) and DoS attacks. The 7100 Series appliances employ the new and innovative Network Threat Mitigation Architecture that combines anomaly, signature, statistical and vulnerability detection techniques into an Intrusion Mitigation Unified Network Engine (IMUNE), that proactively prevents and provides immunity against malicious attacks including denial of service attempts, intrusions and malicious code, network infrastructure attacks, application exploits, scans and reconnaissance