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Introduction
This chapter includes the following topics:
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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:
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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
About the Symantec Network Security foundation
Finding information
About the Symantec Network Security 7100 Series
About other Symantec Network Security features
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