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Email encryption – is it just too much effort?
Jon C | 10 Dec 2012 | 0 comments

Here’s a question I’ve been wondering about from some time. Why don’t we encrypt our email? We devise security solutions to handle all kinds of complex threats, we play cat-and-mouse with the bad guys and we spend a fortune on monitoring, management and response to security issues as they happen.

And yet, as a global race we seem quite happy to transmit all kinds of information across the Internet without protecting it in any way against eavesdropping. Why is this? A couple of years ago, Stephen Farrell wrote a long paper addressing exactly this question, which I won’t attempt to reproduce here. You can read the PDF of the paper, which concludes:

“Casual use of end-to-end security is reduced further by essentially unimaginative...

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Twitter debate with Ross Walker, director of small business for UK&I and former Dragons’ Den Dragon James Caan
Symantec Analyst Relations | 10 Dec 2012 | 0 comments

Friday 8th July - Ross Walker, director of small business for UK&I will participate in a Twitter debate hosted by Real Business magazine. Ross will answer small businesses’ questions on security and managing information, alongside former Dragons’ Den Dragon and well known entrepreneur, James Caan.

Follow the debate at the Real Business Twitter channel and the Twitter hash-tag: #smbrisk.

Besides speaking direct to the small business audience, another objective is to drive smaller organisations to the Small Business Security Checkup, the Small Business Risk Calculator and the 2011 SMB Disaster Preparedness Study.

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SSL: A 'No-Brainer' For Addressing Cloud Security
Symantec Analyst Relations | 10 Dec 2012 | 0 comments

Technology paradigm shifts are nothing new to the business world. Cloud computing, however, presents companies with new challenges of weighing security risks against the efficiencies and competitive advantages using the cloud offers.

Fortunately, when it comes to a number of the most prominently discussed cloud security risks, one proven technology stands ready to address them: Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificates. These certificates use SSL encryption and authentication, long established as one of the primary security standards of computing and the Internet. Among organizations’ many choices for protecting themselves in the cloud, SSL encryption and authentication are no brainers for secure transfer of sensitive information between online parties.

Read the full article by Michael Lin, Senior Director of Trust Services at Symantec...

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Hacker threat rising for Middle East - Interview with Ilias Chantzos, Director Legal & Public Affairs
Symantec Analyst Relations | 10 Dec 2012 | 0 comments

Please listen to the interview with Ilias Chantzos on Dubai Eye News.

Ilias spoke about hacking, its prevalence (drawing from the ISTR), targets, motivation and what government and corporate can do to protect themselves.

The full interview can be downloaded here

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Symantec Corporation wins 2011 Acterra Award for Sustainability
Symantec Analyst Relations | 10 Dec 2012 | 0 comments

Symantec Earns Top Honors for Environmental Practices, Acterra Environmental Awards

Below, please find a link to the Acterra Sustainability Award Video featuring Enrique Salem, CEO and President.

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The Problem With Virtualization....
D Thomson | 10 Dec 2012 | 0 comments

Last week, I hosted several Virtualization events for customers in various regions around Europe. The events were partly an opportunity for Symantec to showcase its very latest offerings in the virtualization space. More importantly, though, they gave us the opportunity to speak with our most important customers about the own virtualization journeys.

When asking our audience about the positive aspects of the virtualization experience, there where no big surprises. Several organisations stated that they had achieved large cost savings and even more cited "IT agility" as being massively improved since the introduction of virtualization technique.

The interesting feedback came when I started to ask about "lessons learned" and "issues with implementations today"..

Check out these stats.. (I took a quick poll at each session and jotted down the results so that I could report back on this blog)..

On average, our audiences (senior...

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Symantec creates 60 jobs at its European Operations Centre in Dublin
Symantec Analyst Relations | 10 Dec 2012 | 0 comments

New authentication services mandate is a strong vote of confidence in Symantec's Irish Operation

Dublin, Tuesday 21st June 2011 -  Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Richard Bruton, TD, today announced that Symantec, the global leader in security, storage and systems management, is to establish a new team within its European Operations Centre in Dublin, creating 60 high quality jobs. The investment is supported by the Irish Government with the aid of IDA Ireland.

Symantec first established an operation in Ireland in 1991 and its transformation involves new mandates, increasing the strategic importance of Symantec Ireland within its parent corporation. Transformation of this nature is in keeping with IDA's goals as outlined in our strategy, Horizon 2020....

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Video blog: Darren Thomson, Chief Technology Officer EMEA
Symantec Analyst Relations | 10 Dec 2012 | 0 comments

In this three minute video, you will gain an introduction to Symantec’s new EMEA CTO, Darren Thomson and an insight into his role that will see him address some of the ‘big’ questions in the industry. Over the coming weeks, Darren will continue his video blog allowing you to understand how he plans to address these questions and others that Symantec is regularly faced with.

Please watch the video by clicking on the link below

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Mobility Keeps Us Moving in the Cloud
Symantec Analyst Relations | 10 Dec 2012 | 0 comments

It’s a fact! How we do business continues to change. We are used to being available anytime, anywhere and our personal technology must keep up with us. Gone are the days when we could get by with any mobile device available – we now need to have the capabilities of a PC at our fingertips.

Even though this availability provides convenience for our fellow employees and clients, it can sometimes come at a price. Businesses must not only have the best security in place for mobile devices, but also policies for protecting the data in the cloud.

Read the full blog by Khoi Nguyen, Group Product Manager at Symantec, here

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Looking for a data protection solution that goes across physical, virtual and cloud environments?
Symantec Analyst Relations | 10 Dec 2012 | 0 comments

We have seen some bombastic marketing over the last several months in the data protection space. One vendor stuffed 26 women in a Mini Cooper, and Veeam called platform proliferation “the next big thing” when they announced intentions to deliver Hyper-V support in December of 2011 – despite it being available for the past three years from Symantec. Let’s cut through noise and look at some of the underlying facts.

Read the full blog by Sean Regan, Director Product Marketing at Symantec, here

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