From Symantec employee jblake's recent product announcement Introducing Proactive Exploit Protection:
"Norton Security customers (and, in fact, anyone running Norton’s Windows client – 22.5.4 or newer) benefit from the introduction of a new protection framework called Protective Exploit Protection (PEP) that aims to better protect Windows devices from so-called “zero-day” attacks – attacks that attempt to exploit undiscovered and unpatched holes (or vulnerabilities) in Windows applications or in the operating system itself."
I'd like to know how PEP differs from the Norton Vulnerability Protection (NVP) feature in my older Norton (2014) v21 product. For example, do PEP and NVP both protect against the same exploits listed on Symantec's Security Response site at http://www.symantec.com/security_response/landing/vulnerabilities.jsp, or does PEP offer an additional layer of protection?
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