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Symantec’s New View: Security + Availability = Information Integrity
Sydney, Australia – November 17, 2004 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq:
SYMC), the global leader in information security, today unveiled a fundamentally
new way for enterprise customers to view and manage the risks around protecting,
securing, and using their most valuable asset, their information. Backed
by partners and customers, the concept that Symantec calls “Information
Integrity” addresses the need to keep businesses up, running and
growing, even in the event of Internet threats or other disruptive events.
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Digital information has become an influential phenomenon,” said Michelle
Amery, Symantec Vice President, Asia Pacific. “In fact, many believe
a substantial part of the world’s economy revolves around the use,
storage and movement of digital information. It is a powerful enabler,
but only if it is both secure and available.”
Amery, speaking at an event held today in Sydney spoke with CIOs and CEOs
about the importance of balancing security risk with business opportunity.
She explained how Symantec’s services and products help organisations
analyse risk and plan for growth while protecting their assets and brand.
Symantec’s approach provides customers with an end-to-end business
process for balancing security with availability beginning with the need
for organisations to assess the risk of vulnerabilities, exposures and
threats. Once a valid risk assessment has been performed, organisations
must act to shield information from attack, mitigate threats, prioritise
preventative actions based on real-time threat alerts and design in the
recovery capability to deal with accidents and disasters when they happen.
“
The unification of security and systems management is inevitable. Starting
with patch management and moving towards full-fledged configuration management,
security issues are increasingly associated with business continuity,” said
Amery.
In support of the information integrity initiative, Symantec announced
new products and services including:
- Symantec Enterprise Security Manager 6.1 – The newest version of
Symantec’s industry-leading policy compliance solution, Symantec
Enterprise Security Manager (ESM), offers powerful compliance reporting
features and pre-configured assessment templates for Sarbanes-Oxley and
Gramm-Leach-Bliley. By identifying threats and measuring compliance to
security practices and regulations, ESM is a key element in achieving information
integrity by helping organisations better manage their information environment.
- Symantec Gateway Security 4.0 – The Symantec Gateway Security Appliance
400 Series provides a comprehensive solution including firewall, intrusion
prevention, intrusion detection, antivirus policy enforcement, content
filtering, virtual private networking (VPN) and gateway networking functionality
in a single, easy-to-use appliance designed for remote and branch office
sites. In addition, the Symantec Gateway Security 400 Series can function
as a standards-based, secure wireless LAN (WLAN) access point. Symantec
Gateway Security 400 Series appliances are a key component in achieving
information integrity by helping organisations better secure their networks
at remote and branch office sites.
- Symantec LiveState Recovery Products – Symantec LiveState Recovery
family of products provide fast, reliable and cost-effective system and
data recovery. The Symantec LiveState Recovery products capture a point-in-time
operating state of an entire server or desktop, which includes the operating
system, applications, data, and settings into one easy-to-manage file.
These point-in-time snapshots are created without interrupting user productivity
or application usage. Users can perform a full system restoration, a complete
bare metal recovery or retrieve individual files or folders in minutes
to ensure information availability. Three editions of Symantec LiveState
Recovery are available: Symantec LiveState Recovery Advanced Server 3.0,
Symantec LiveState Recovery Standard Server 3.0, and Symantec LiveState
Recovery Desktop 3.0.
For additional information on Symantec’s revolutionary new approach
to information integrity and the products and services offered today by
Symantec to help enterprise customers balance security with information
availability, go to http://www.information-integrity.com/.
About Symantec
Symantec is the global leader in information security providing a broad
range of software, appliances and services designed to help individuals,
small and mid-sized businesses, and large enterprises secure and manage
their IT infrastructure. Symantec's Norton brand of products is the worldwide
leader in consumer security and problem-solving solutions. Headquartered
in Cupertino, Calif., Symantec has operations in more than 35 countries.
More information is available at http://www.symantec.com
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