eTrust Secure Content Management FAQs

eTrust Secure Content Management is an integrated solution that addresses threats to valuable business content. Originating from the antivirus business, eTrust Secure Content Management addresses the more complex problems that spam, web URL filtering, malicious code and data confidentiality are posing to corporations.

How is eTrust Secure Content Management software different from antivirus software?
Antivirus software works well to defend against viruses, and its methodology of signatures is also suitable to this type of threat. However, securing content, such as Java, Active X and spam, is more complex. Because some of this content is legitimate and useful, content security requires proactive security with smart filtering capabilities. In addition, the content challenge includes a new set of security issues, such as corporate confidentiality and accountability. The antivirus approach is incapable of addressing these issues.

eTrust Secure Content Management also introduces the convergence of security and content management. For the first time, the solution for complex content problems is not purely a security matter, it also needs to be managed to ensure security and business needs are addressed. Until now, most vendors have been too focused on point security products and failed to recognize this emerging convergence of security and content management.

So does this mean that the antivirus business is going away?
No, the antivirus business continues to be strong. eTrust Secure Content Management builds on the strengths of eTrust Antivirus while taking content security to the next level — offering the best all-around protection for corporate networks. It addresses the continuing evolution in addressing the security challenge, which requires a more extensive view and a larger set of solutions.

What is the inflection point that requires the evolution of secure content management?
The increase in content threats, such as active content, spam and offensive content, over the last few years has led to an inflection point — or a shift in today’s market needs and requirements — that demands a complete change in the enterprise security landscape. Spam is a form of business solicitation that utilizes email, which is a legitimate tool. Active code is frequently embedded in enterprise software. Therefore, not all Java and Active X code can be considered malicious. Web surfing can be very important for research, but it can be very bad if adult-themed sites are reached. The emergence of these threats, which sometimes utilize legitimate tools, have created the inflection point that requires organizations to rethink the antivirus and threat management businesses.

What do I buy, one product or many?
eTrust Secure Content Management is a single, integrated solution that is priced per user. This continues the eTrust Antivirus tradition, which revolutionized pricing to deliver the best total cost of ownership in the industry.

Why an integrated secure content management solution?
By creating an integrated eTrust Secure Content Management solution, CA is focusing on adding value for its customers through cost savings, enhanced enterprise security and simplifying management of content security.

What if I have already purchased eTrust Antivirus from CA?
There is an easy migration path available for you to leverage the smart choice you made and to upgrade to eTrust Secure Content Management.

What is the return on investment of using eTrust Secure Content Management vs. implementing point solutions?
When compared with multiple point solutions, eTrust Secure Content Management can be as much as two-thirds less expensive to license, implement and maintain. This is due in large part to CA’s single pricing strategy. In addition, its common architectures require fewer staff and resources to manage, enabling businesses to free up critical budgets for other high-priority projects.

How does your integrated solution compare with best-of-breed products?
In eTrust Secure Content Management, CA makes multiple functionalities available in a single solution from one vendor — at up to a third of the total cost of comparable point solutions. The content security market has matured and customers are now asking for an integrated solution. In eTrust Secure Content Management, CA is also adding more security than customers have been receiving from the point solutions. In addition, eTrust Secure Content Management includes the added benefits of double virus protection, with two independently developed antivirus engines.

How does eTrust Secure Content Management integrate with the rest of the eTrust portfolio?
eTrust Secure Content Management is built on top of eTrust Antivirus and is part of eTrust Threat Management solutions.

What is CA’s road map for eTrust Secure Content Management?
eTrust Secure Content management will move toward managing data and its usage permissions; a shift from the current user-management practice. CA envisions data usage policies and enforcement similar to user access and provisioning. By combining content management and security, CA can address a problem’s business aspects and move from a security-only discipline. eTrust Secure Content Management will have one management console and expand into other content areas as the need arises.