Toronto Catholic District School Board Standardizes on Symantec's Content Security Solutions

TORONTO, Ont. - July 24, 2001 - Symantec Corp., a world leader in Internet security technology, today announced that the Toronto Catholic District School Board (TCDSB) has signed a 10,000 user license agreement for Symantec's award-winning Norton AntiVirus Corporate Edition.

Symantec will provide the school board with the security solutions needed to reduce student and faculty downtime due to virus infections. In addition, Norton Anti Virus will help reduce the time required by the school district's IT department to fight and recover from virus infections.

"Education is the Toronto Catholic School Board's first priority, and our computing environment is an invaluable tool in enabling us to provide high-quality education," says David Klein, a network analyst with the Computer Services department of the TCDSB. "Protecting this learning environment is one of our most important challenges. We selected Norton AntiVirus because it enabled us to focus on education by ensuring reliable security solutions throughout our organization."

According to Klein, the Toronto Catholic District School Board selected Symantec based on the company's reputation and credibility, in addition to the product's reliability, administrative tools and ease-of-use. "Symantec was able to provide the Toronto Catholic District School Board with both the products and the consulting services needed to implement a strong security infrastructure, which will ensure that our organization remains protected against viruses and other security threats," he says.

"Educational institutions are increasingly dependent on network systems for efficient productivity and information sharing, making it essential for these organization to protect their computing environments," says Michael Murphy, Canadian general manager for Symantec. "Symantec will continue to provide industry-leading products and consulting services to help organizations like the Toronto Catholic District School Board protect their network environment against computer viruses."

About Norton AntiVirus
Norton AntiVirus is a component of Symantec Enterprise Security, a comprehensive and modular Internet security solution for enterprise computing environments. Symantec Enterprise Security includes best-of-breed products in three major security categories: intrusion prevention, virus protection and content filtering. Norton AntiVirus provides automatic protection against viruses and other malicious codes at all possible virus entry points, including shared e-mail attachments and Internet downloads, as well as floppy disks, drives, and networks. Norton AntiVirus guards against dangerous codes in Active X controls and Java applets, as well as worms, Trojan Horses, and password-stealers. Norton AntiVirus is supported by the Symantec AntiVirus Research Center (SARC), one of the industry's largest dedicated team of virus experts. As new computer viruses appear, SARC develops identification and detection for these viruses, and provides either a repair or delete operation, thus keeping users protected against the latest virus threats.

About Symantec
Symantec, a world leader in Internet security technology, provides a broad range of content and network security solutions to individuals and enterprises. The company is a leading provider of virus protection, vulnerability assessment, intrusion prevention, Internet content and e-mail filtering, remote management technologies and security services to enterprises around the world. Symantec's Norton brand of consumer security products leads the market in worldwide retail sales and industry awards. Headquartered in Cupertino, Calif., Symantec has worldwide operations in 36 countries. For more information, please visit our Web site at www.symantec.com.

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