Threat Manager r8.1

Threat Manager r8.1

Threat Manager r8.1 solution combines best-of-breed CA Anti-Spyware with CA Anti-Virus.
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What is CA Threat Manager for the Enterprise?

It is a product that proactively warns you about, detects, analyzes and provides remediation for an entire range of threats—including viruses, worms, spyware, key loggers, Trojans and other malicious code. It improves operational efficiencies, increases service continuity and reduces security management costs.

What threat challenges does it meet?

CA Threat Manager for the Enterprise offers you the ability to enhance your endpoint protection through comprehensive detection of and prevention against the rising blended threats of today.

What features does it offer?

It offers real-time spyware and malware scanning, detection and removal, superior management, efficient agent communications, support for Cisco NAC, signature updates, enhanced deployment for large enterprise environments and extensive graphical reporting.

What platforms does it support (CA Anti-Virus for the Enterprise)?

It supports PDAs, Windows, Macintosh (including Mac Intel OS X), Linux, UNIX and NetWare. It also supports Microsoft Exchange, Lotus Notes, CVP Firewall, Microsoft Proxy Server, ISA Server and Network Appliance NAS devices. The CA Threat Manager solution combines best-of-breed CA Anti-Spyware with CA Anti-Virus, extending the functionality of both products with a central, web-based management console and increasing administrative efficiency through a common agent, logging facilities and updating tools. The solution warns, detects, analyzes and provides remediation from an entire range of attacks from threats, including viruses, worms, spyware, key loggers, Trojans and other malicious code. The solution results in improved operational efficiencies, increased service continuity and reduced security management costs. CA Threat Manager is also compatible with and complementary to other security initiatives, including CA Host-Based Intrusion Prevention System (CA HIPS), and CA Secure Content Manager (CA SCM). CA Threat Manager is backed by CA Security Advisor which has served government and enterprises since 1987.

What is New in r8.1?

  • CA Anti-Spyware Real-time protection
  • CA Anti-Spyware Agent GUI
  • CA Anti-Virus Support for Non-Windows Platforms – Linux, Solaris and Mac OS X (including Mac Intel OS X)
  • Support for Cisco NAC and Microsoft NAP
  • Additional Language Support – Now supporting Brazilian Portuguese, Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese, in addition to English, Spanish, French, German, Italian, Japanese.


Features and Benefits:

  • Multi-layered Security provides award-winning protection against today's most dangerous threats including spyware, malware and hacker tools, as well as annoying pests like adware.
  • Simplified Management and Increased Control eases administration through an intuitive central console that enables you to manage users as well as create and enforce threat management policies.
  • Real-Time Alerts and Reporting automatically alerts you when new threat events are detected in your environment, allowing identification and quick response.
  • Automatic Updates sent to provide an up-to-the-minute response to new threats including viruses, spyware and other malicious code.
  • Extensive Threat Research backed by the CA Security Advisor Team, a worldwide network of rapid-response centers that are staffed year-round 24×7 by a team of expert security researchers and certified support professionals who initially identify and automatically isolate the latest malware, spyware and vulnerabilities.

Key features

12x5 Priority Phone-Based Support


CA Anti-Spyware Real-time protection


CA Anti-Spyware Agent GUI


CA Anti-Virus Support for Non-Windows Platforms


Support for Cisco NAC and Microsoft NAP


Additional Language Support

Server Requirements

Recommended configuration for the CA Threat Manager Server:
  • Pentium 4, 2.6 GHz or higher
  • 10 GB of free disk space
  • 2 GB of RAM recommended (1 GB minimum)

Supported Server Platforms
  • Windows NT 4.0, SP6A or later
  • Windows 2000 Server
  • Windows 2003 Server
  • Windows Server 2008
  • Windows XP Professional
  • Windows 2000 Workstation
  • Windows Vista

Client Requirements

Recommended configuration for each client running the CA Threat Manager Agent:
  • Pentium 300+ MHz recommended (200 MHz minimum)
  • 256 MB of free disk space
  • 512 MB of RAM

Supported Client Platforms
  • Windows NT 4.0, SP6A or later
  • Windows 2000
  • Windows Server 2003
  • Windows Server 2008
  • Windows XP Professional
  • Windows Vista

Frequently Asked Questions

Q. What is CA Threat Manager r8.1?

A: The CA Threat Manager r8.1 solution combines best-of-breed CA Anti-Spyware r8.1 with CA Anti-Virus r8.1, extending the functionality of both products with a central, web-based management console and increasing administrative efficiency through a common agent, logging facilities and updating tools. The solution warns, detects, analyzes and provides remediation across the enterprise from an entire range of attacks from threats, including viruses, worms, spyware, key loggers, Trojans and other malicious code. The CA Threat Manager solution results in improved operational efficiencies, increased service continuity and reduced security management costs.

Q. I already have anti-virus software; do I also need anti-spyware software?

A:Yes. Although anti-virus software detects and removes viruses, spyware has unique properties that often are not recognizable and cannot be removed by anti-virus software alone. CA Anti-Spyware detects and removes spyware, hacker tools, non-viral malicious programs and annoying pests like adware. CA Anti-Spyware, when purchased as a standalone product, offers excellent anti-spyware protection and complements other threat prevention products from both CA and other vendors. When deployed in conjunction with CA Anti-Virus as part of the CA Threat Manager solution, both products can be managed from the same administrative console to provide efficient, centrally-managed protection against a broad range of threats.

Q. What are the key features in CA Threat Manager r8.1?

A: Key features in this release include:
  • CA Anti-Spyware Real-time Protection.Monitors and scans all applications and processes as they load to prevent spyware from running. If the system is previously infected and the spyware is already running when CA Anti-Spyware is started, it can optionally stop the spyware process in memory.
  • CA Anti-Spyware Agent GUI.The optional agent GUI enables users to run and view spyware scans on their workstation as needed, depending on company policy. Provides the ability for end users to view the current status of real-time protection, view logs, create and view exclusion lists and restore from quarantine, depending on company policy.
  • Support for Cisco NAC and Microsoft NAP.The CA Posture Plug-in for Cisco NAC and the CA System Health Agent for Microsoft NAP discover important security posture information about CA products installed on systems in networks protected by Cisco NAC and Microsoft NAP.
  • Enhanced CA Anti-Virus Extends Support for Non- Windows Platforms.Enhancements made in CA Anti-Virus r8 that were originally made available to the Windows platforms are now available for UNIX (including Solaris and Linux) and Macintosh platforms (including Mac Intel OS X). These enhancements include, full support of the CA Threat Management Server/Console, management of Windows and CA Anti-Spyware clients.
  • Additional Language SupportIn addition to supporting English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, and Japanese, CA Threat Manager now supports Brazilian Portuguese, Traditional Chinese and Simplified Chinese.


Q. I hear CA is moving forward with a single anti-virus engine strategy. Many customers like me have relied on the two CA anti-virus engines. I am concerned.

A:CA is embarking on a new strategy that will take anti-virus protection to the next level. Customers will no longer have to choose which technology to use; CA will be combining the capabilities of two engines to provide the best of each in one. This is the first step of a broader strategy that CA is embarking on — a single anti-malware engine that CA expects will bring together the best of anti-virus and anti-spyware capabilities in a single engine. At the end of January 2007, signature updates for prior releases of eTrust® Antivirus were released and deployed through the automated engine update process, bringing those installations in line with the new technology. This change will not affect the eTrust® PestPatrol® Anti-Spyware Corporate Edition r5/r8 engine used in eTrust® PestPatrol® CE or CA Integrated Threat Management. In March, the new releases of CA Threat Manager and CA Anti-Virus shipped using this single antivirus engine. eTrust® Secure Content Manager will also be part of this change. For more details about this update and how it affects customers, visit supportconnect.ca.com or call +1 866 422-2774. We also have a Frequently Asked Questions that addresses any questions or concerns you may have.

Q. What are the benefits of a single anti-virus engine to customers?

A: CA believes that the singe anti-virus engine update provides a comprehensive and easy to manage solution for securing customers’ computing environments against a growing range of increasingly sophisticated threats — while keeping technology ownership costs under control. Immediate benefits as a result of this change include:
– Streamlined system management
– Reduced network bandwidth requirements
– Reduced computer system overhead
– Increased, industry-leading signature responsiveness

Q. What are the advantages of using CA Threat Manager r8.1 versus combining best-of-breed anti-virus and anti-spyware?

A:The CA Threat Manager r8.1 solution combines best-of-breed CA Anti-Spyware r8.1 with CA Anti-Virus r8.1, extending the functionality of both products with a central, web-based management console and increasing efficiency through a common agent, logging facility and updating tools. The solution warns, detects, analyzes and provides remediation across the enterprise from an entire range of threats, attacks and malicious code, including viruses, worms, spyware, key loggers and Trojans. By combining the protective power of these two technologies in one centrally-managed product, CA offers the ability to easily enhance your endpoint protection. This combination offers you comprehensive detection and prevention against rising blended threats, robust reporting, expanded platform coverage, expanded language support and deployment from a central location via a single, intuitive console to enhance your endpoint protection. Best-of-breed anti-virus and anti-spyware still make up about 65% of the enterprise base today. However, owning one and not the other does not provide comprehensive anti-malware protection that enterprises need today from blended threats. The market is moving in this direction and many enterprises are beginning to see the benefits of an anti-malware solution. In an enterprise poll recently 95% said they are looking into buying an integrated solution.

Q. Does an independent, third party test the CA Threat Manager software?

A: The CA Security Advisor has played a key role in helping CA achieve internationally-recognized detection and removal certifications for malware and spyware from ICSA Labs, West Coast Labs and Virus Bulletin. CA Anti-Virus consistently receives the “100% Award” from Virus Bulletin. CA has also received Checkmark certifications from West Coast Labs for anti-malware detection and removal (Anti-virus Level 1, Antivirus Level 2 and Trojan) and Anti-Spyware desktop detection. CA Anti-Virus is ICSA Labs certified for detecting and cleaning 100% of “in-the-wild” viruses.

Q. Will I be protected from the latest blended threats, pests, viruses, worms, Trojans etc?

A: Yes, CA Security Advisor is the answer. Keeping your threat software up-to-date is critical. CA Threat Manager is backed by CA Security Advisor that serves as the trusted source of security content to governments, enterprises, educational institutions and non-profit organizations since 1987. CA’s industry-leading security researchers, who continuously monitor new security threats and develop mitigation procedures, staff the CA Security Advisor. Comprised of worldwide rapid response centers, CA Security Advisor provides around-the-clock threat research and content development aggregating security data from over 400 sources using a patent pending process for research, testing and validation of threats.

Q. How will you be expanding the utility of CA Threat Manager?

A: CA Threat Manager detects and removes anti-malware from files and user profiles/accounts to uncover hidden threat instances and provide comprehensive anti-malware protection. Incremental .DAT files will ensure that you are protected against new threats.

Q. Are your threat products compatible with other CA products?

A: CA Threat Manager is compatible with, and complementary to, other security initiatives, including CA Host-Based Intrusion Prevention System (CA HIPS), which blends standalone firewall and intrusion detection and prevention capabilities to provide centralized proactive threat protection, and CA Secure Content Manager (CA SCM), a single, unified gateway solution that safeguards enterprises from data confidentiality breaches, web and messaging threats from a central management console. Adding CA HIPS to your endpoint threat defenses will help you prevent known and unknown threats such as malware, spyware, adware and rogue software from penetrating your network. While the use of CA Threat Manager will detect and remove threats that happen to evade detection or that previously infected the endpoint; adding CA SCM complements the endpoint threat protection provided by CA Threat Manager with centrally-managed gateway threat protection.

Q. Can I now deploy CA Threat Manager r8.1 using third party software delivery tools?

A: Yes. CA Threat Manager r8.1 enables administrators to deploy the client via Unicenter® Software Delivery, Microsoft Systems Management Server (SMS) and other third party deployment programs without any end user interaction, providing increased flexibility and streamlined deployment. This new feature enables you to quickly and securely deploy CA Threat Manager in large enterprise environments, while maximizing your existing software delivery investments.

Q. What Makes CA Threat Manager r8.1 the right choice?

A: The CA Threat Manager r8.1 combines best-of-breed CA Anti-Spyware r8.1 with CA Anti-Virus r8.1 and extends the functionality with a single integrated management console for both products and increases efficiency through a common agent, logging facility and updating tools. The solution warns, detects, analyzes, and provides remediation across an organization from an entire range of threats, attacks and malicious code, including viruses, worms, spyware, key loggers and Trojans across an enterprise. This minimizes risks, system downtime and lost productivity resulting in enhanced service continuity. The two powerful technologies offers you comprehensive threat detection and prevention against rising blended threats, robust reporting, expanded platform coverage, expanded language support and deployment from a central location via a single, intuitive console to enhance your endpoint protection. The CA Threat Manager solution complements other threat prevention products from both CA and other vendors. CA Anti-Virus and CA Anti-Spyware can both be purchased as separate standalone point products. The CA Threat Manager solution is backed by CA Security Advisor which has served government and enterprises since 1987. It has also played a key role in helping CA achieve internationally recognized detection and removal certifications for malware and spyware from such organizations as ICSA Labs, West Coast Labs, and Virus Bulletin.

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