People have the curious ability to get used to almost anything over time. Whether it’s learning to fall asleep to traffic noise or coming to accept wrinkles as we age, we often become comfortable with our situation.

While this adaptability can be a good thing, sometimes it leads to complacency. In the constant fight against cybercrime, for example, becoming comfortable is the last thing people should do. In their quest to steal information, cybercriminals are constantly changing their methods, just like how a human virus evolves in the real world. To keep information safe, we are continuing to evolve new defenses against these attacks. But with so many threats out there – where do you start? Well, don’t try to boil the ocean!

One of the biggest mistakes we see is when organizations secure the endpoint and really lose focus on what really matters, the data! Security means more than protecting your smartphone, laptop or PC. It’s also about the...

I continue to be astounded by the sweeping effects of globalization on the world economy. In my current position, I have the opportunity to observe this phenomenon first hand as I visit Symantec customers across the globe. My business travels in far-flung locales frequently remind me of my college study abroad program, which took me to thirteen different countries throughout the world. Bypassing the usual hot spots of France, Italy and Germany I knew I would get to at some point in life, I toured Southeast Asia, South America, central and southern Africa, the Far East, Alaska and the Caribbean. Not only did I have the chance to break down personal cultural barriers and develop an appreciation for different customs, I also acquired an understanding of the legal systems of these nations.  Perhaps...

By Anil Chakravarthy, Senior Vice President, Storage and Availability Management Group

Today we announced the latest version of Symantec Data Insight.

Since Symantec acquired Veritas Software in 2004, we’ve had one clear and focused goal – to help our customers manage and protect their information. This is what keeps us up at night.

The creation of Data Insight was a natural innovation and outgrowth of the acquisition. It demonstrates innovation and integration across Symantec’s security and storage portfolio. For those of you not familiar with Data Insight, the solution improves information governance by providing intelligence into ownership and usage of unstructured data – including files such as documents, presentations, spreadsheets and emails.

In order to manage and protect data, organizations need to know what the data is, who owns it and how...

It’s no secret that information is the prize in today’s war between businesses and cybercriminals. And just when organizations had come to terms with the fortress-style protection needed to keep information safe within the corporate walls, technology evolved to include virtualization and cloud. These advances provide increased business flexibility, improved scalability and can create significant cost savings, but they also increase your exposure to outside threats and therefore drive up risk. And, as if to make matters worse your InfoSec team has to figure out how to keep corporate data safe when it is being accessed out of the office on mobile devices, as well as ensuring the security of the virtualized data center which is highly dynamic in nature.

Symantec is teaming up with the leading virtualization provider VMware, to address some of the most pressing security issues affecting businesses globally as they take the step to virtualize more business critical...