Symantec’s 2012 Corporate Responsibility Report explores our commitments to our employees, the world, and your information. Over the next several weeks, we’ll be featuring blogs from Symantec employees and partners that focus on how they are making a difference. This week, we hear from Jingjing Ren, Software Engineer.

I’m a software engineer at Symantec. According to recent statistics, less than 20 percent of the bachelor degrees in computer science go to women. This means that, even living in Silicon Valley as I do, I’m a member of a very small group of working technical women.

Why do so few girls and women pursue careers in computer science and other tech fields? What makes a...

Symantec’s 2012 Corporate Responsibility Report explores our commitments to our employees, the world, and your information. Over the next several weeks, we’ll be featuring blogs from Symantec employees and partners that focus on how they are making a difference. This week, we hear from Amanda Davis, Global Systems Compliance Manager.

The Supply Chain team’s involvement in Symantec's environmental initiatives has been evolving since 1994 when we first registered to the ISO14001 Environmental Standard. Since then the journey has been interesting, challenging, and ever changing. Upon reflection when I think about then and now, Symantec as a company has made tremendous improvements to both its processes and approach. This is reflected in Symantec’s outstanding...

Symantec’s 2012 Corporate Responsibility Report explores our commitments to our employees, the world, and your information. Over the next several weeks, we’ll be featuring blogs from Symantec employees and partners that focus on how they are making a difference. This week, we hear from Patricia Titus, Symantec Vice President & Chief Information Security Officer.

Symantec's mission to inspire confidence in a connected world requires that we ensure both our own operations and those of our customers are safe and secure. As the leading global information security company, this is not an easy task. In our tech-based society, cyber criminals are now harder to track and companies are more vulnerable than ever. At Symantec, we see every kind of cyber attack on our operations,...

As we approach the launch of our 2012 Corporate Responsibility Report next week, we've developed the following two-part series highlighting how stakeholder feedback was integrated into the development of this year's report.   

Businesses should support and respect the protection of internationally proclaimed human rights. This is the first principle of the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC), of which Symantec became a signatory in 2006. Since then, we’ve taken an active role in adopting and encouraging the UNGC’s ten principles surrounding safeguarding human rights, upholding fair labor standards, and promoting environmental responsibility. In 2011, we asked Ursula Wynhoven, the General Counsel at the UNGC, to review our Corporate Responsibility Report and give us feedback that would make our human rights position even stronger. She had the following suggestion:

“Symantec could provide greater specificity...