As companies move to the cloud and offer their employees increased mobility, IT needs toexamine new methods of ensuring trustworthy access. Companies can no longerrely on traditional security models, because they are obsolete and in turn elevating risk. This calls for new ways of ensuring trustworthy access, including risk-based authentication methods that strike a balance between robust security and accessibility. Symantec offers a diverse set of integrated authentication technologies that are highly flexible, lower total cost of ownership, and leverage Symantec's expertise and investment in operational excellence. To find out how to provide risk-based authentication methods that strike a balance between security and accessibility, read this article http://bit.ly/SyVBTw

Announcing Managed PKI Service v8.6

Symantec would like to announce the release of Managed PKI Service v8.6, which includes new Managed PKI clients for the Android and the Apple Mac. 

Summary of New Features:

• Transparent certificate enrollment and automation capabilities across all platforms
• PKI Client for Android (can be downloaded from Google Play)
• PKI Client for MAC
• Microsoft’s Auto Enrollment enhancements that provide post processing functionality with fully transparent auto enrollment through PKI Client (not available with Microsoft Auto Enrollment alone)
• Certificate Management enhancements
• Enterprise Gateway GUI based installer
• Allow configuration of KU and EKU extensions

Enhancements such as theAndroid client are one of the Symantec tools that can help organizations more safely and economically adopt Bring Your Own Device (BYOD...

It is day three of GITEX and I’ve been talking from morning to night with CIOs, IT executives and partners. But I’m not tired...I’m actually energised. Energised because now more than ever before I am seeing how Symantec is an integral piece of the puzzle at the heart of Middle East organizations – and that is exciting!

In making the rounds at this premiere IT event for the Middle East, one of the resounding subjects in every discussion has been cyber security threats. The recent blaze of high profile attacks in the region has brought to life the growing concern and deeper awareness of the threats that organisations are facing today and how to protect their information and minimize the risks from undue downtime, unwanted costs and damage to brand reputation.

It is clear that endpoint security is no longer enough, and organisations need to employ a defence in-depth security strategy that includes a mix of aware, educated end users; strict...

Over the last few weeks we have been working with a number of customers who have large administrative overheads when protecting their IT Infrastructure.

When selecting a new service they have either gone to tender or bought an off the shelf solution upon recommendation from colleagues/friends. 

Whilst this may seem great at first, over the years this has built up a number of systems each requiring their own management systems, portals, update systems and most importantly, they lack integration between solutions. Whilst this may seem like a large problem, it gets worse - the issue with these customers was that they had multiple products performing conflicting tasks. 

One example from a customer who had one product that is designed to AV scan contents of a USB pen drive upon connection to the machine. Another product to encrypt USB pen drives upon connection. This is great if the admin could...