• Cyberspace can be a pretty sketchy place. You need booby traps, a punchlock, and about 15 deadbolts between you and the bad guys.
• Breaches are inevitable, but multi-point preparation is the best defense, minimizing impact and sending would-be attackers running for the exit.
• Unifying cloud-based SWG and endpoint security in a single agent offers layered protection to keep your data secure.

Exposed endpoints? That’s gonna cost you. Big. Your laptop may seem innocent sitting at your desk, covered in stickers from your last trip, but it's a loaded weapon. Endpoints are ground zero for cyberattacks—the origin of up to 90% of successful cyberattacks and 70% of data breaches. Of course, you’re security savvy and have everything from your network to your morning coffee encrypted. Hate to break it to you, but attacks through encrypted channels are still on the rise, comprising over 85% of cyberattacks in 2023. These attacks are costly—draining companies of $4.4 million USD on average. 

Before you chuck your laptop out the window and head back to Costa Rica for some off-grid pura vida, consider this: layering up is still the most reliable strategy you have—but it doesn’t have to mean piling on agents, consoles, mismatched policies, and user headaches. 

Enter a unified agent for endpoint and network security. Combining independently managed security tools into a single agent gives you one enforcement point for the controls you already rely on and reduces management overhead. A centralized agent like this bridges the gap between endpoint protection and network visibility, enabling full traffic inspection and policy consistency. No network gymnastics. No “only works when you’re on VPN.” No policy gaps the moment someone opens their laptop on hotel Wi-Fi.

And by relying on a unified agent for both endpoint and network security, you’re earning back precious time that would otherwise be put toward managing multiple agents.

One agent = exponential benefits

Here’s the gist of this shift: You’re bringing together legendary endpoint and network protections and delivering them through one unified enforcement point. That means you can: 

Take your security and enforcement everywhere, all the time.

SWG protections, Cloud Firewall, Web Isolation, and ZTNA controls are managed directly from the endpoint—and travel with it, from offsite to campsite. Wherever endpoint security protections are, so are your network traffic inspections and policy enforcements. No extra agents required.

Keep it simple, SOC fam.

One unified agent means one piece of software handles multiple security services—traffic steering, SWG, Web Isolation, CASB, ZTNA, the whole SSE crew. You reduce tool sprawl, streamline management, and stop chasing settings across multiple different agents. Everything lives together, plays together, and updates together. How does your admin like them apples?

Get to work fast and safe, with no traffic delays.

Your unified agent keeps things moving. It distinguishes personal and professional traffic, routing high-bandwidth sessions straight through and only steering traffic to the cloud proxy when inspection is necessary.

Remote users skip the backhauling delays entirely. A unified agent connects them to the nearest cloud SWG Point of Presence (PoP), taking the fastest, most direct path to cloud applications and the open internet.

And when your SWG runs on global cloud infrastructure, you get built-in scale, high availability, and consistent performance across data centers worldwide.

But when we say exponential, we mean it. These are just some of the key benefits—for more, check out the brief.

Streamlined by design, resilient by default 

Built to simplify operations and strengthen defenses at every layer, Symantec’s Endpoint Security Agent unifies Symantec Endpoint Security (SES) and Symantec Cloud Secure Web Gateway (SWG) in a single, lightweight agent, making processes simple and fast, with full visibility. That’s like 1+1= Simplified Security.

Symantec Endpoint Security Agent helps implement both Zero Trust and Security Service Edge (SSE) without sacrificing efficient traffic management. No matter where a user is located, all traffic routes to the Cloud SWG for full encrypted inspection, website classification and categorization, security policy enforcement, Web Isolation, ZTNA controls, and more. 

But we didn’t stop there. We’re consolidating the Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) Mobile Management console straight into the Enterprise Console alongside Symantec Endpoint Security and Cloud SWG. The result? A feature-rich, extensive security experience capable of managing all endpoint security features, device types, and operating systems from one console. With long-term scalability and straight-forward path to migration, it’s the upgrade your SOC will feel immediately. 

While customers may need to migrate their devices to this unified agent, it’s a simple, seamless transfer for MDM-managed devices—no new license required. And once you’ve moved over, that Enterprise Console is the single management plane through which you can manage all your devices, gain additional capabilities, and access top-notch security features.   

And that brings us to your next move. 

100% coverage, from the back to the middle and around again

If you’re ready to streamline, simplify, and make moves fast, you need a good agent. If you want to do all that while staying policy-consistent and keeping bad actors outside the gates where they belong, you need a legendary one, equipped to handle would-be intruders with ease. 

Symantec Endpoint Security Agent is a jack of all trades (and master of all), ready to lock down endpoints and keep networks networking smoothly. Centralizing agent management ensures gapless coverage, extending protections from gateways to endpoints for full visibility.  

Simplified. Seamless. Secure. Discover for yourself how Symantec Endpoint Security Agent will have you saying “I’d like to thank my agent.”  

For a deeper dive on Symantec Endpoint Security Agent, check out our tech docs. 

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