Symantec and PricewaterhouseCoopers Form an Alliance to Offer Customers Comprehensive Security Solutions and Services

Alliance Enables Customers to Effectively Manage their Security Environment and Realize Service and Cost Advantages with an Integrated Security "Dashboard" Approach

MUMBAI -- 11 March, 2003 -- Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq:SYMC), a world leader in Internet security, and PricewaterhouseCoopers, a leading provider of enterprise security solutions, today announced that they are teaming to offer customers worldwide the solutions and services necessary to effectively manage their end-to-end security environment. The alliance combines Symantec's security solutions and PricewaterhouseCoopers' Threat and Vulnerability Management Services to help customers realize service and cost advantages through an integrated security "dashboard" approach.

PricewaterhouseCoopers' Threat and Vulnerability Management (TVM) practice provides services that help clients integrate a comprehensive and balanced security solution that can be monitored and managed across the enterprise, increasing security and protection of the business. The TVM services are an integral part of PwC's Enterprise Security Business Model™ (ESBM™), developed to help clients identify, create, capture and sustain the value of security. The integrated security dashboard will be supported by Symantec's breadth of security technologies and services to provide customers with a comprehensive and balanced security solution.

"Businesses today are required to open their networks to customers, partners and suppliers and that additional access leaves companies more vulnerable to attack," said Allan Carey, program manager at IDC. "With a tool such as a security dashboard, companies can have a more holistic view of their IT infrastructure and are in a more proactive position to secure and protect their assets. Proactive monitoring reduces the likelihood of business interruption from a security event and reduces the costs associated with identifying and responding to system vulnerabilities."

The dashboard will allow customers to integrate, correlate and report security data from devices throughout the enterprise into a unified view of the entire security environment. To help customers achieve a security dashboard approach, PricewaterhouseCoopers is leveraging the Symantec Security Management System, a comprehensive set of management applications that improves the effectiveness of the information security environment by delivering proactive control of the security infrastructure. These services, offered as one complete security package, simplify the complexity of managing a customer's security infrastructure.

"PricewaterhouseCoopers and Symantec have long shared the same vision for providing comprehensive security solutions," said Neel Ratan, Leader, Security Solutions, PricewaterhouseCoopers. "This shared vision provides an excellent opportunity to achieve true end-to-end security with greater ease for our mutual clients."

In addition to providing customers with comprehensive management, monitoring and reporting capabilities, Symantec and PricewaterhouseCoopers are also providing integrated end-to-end security solutions and services. The alliance leverages PricewaterhouseCoopers' professional security capabilities to help customers effectively identify, assess and implement security and privacy solutions. These services are complemented by Symantec's security offerings including early alerting and response, intrusion detection, firewall, vulnerability management, content filtering solutions and managed security services to provide comprehensive security expertise to enterprises worldwide.

"One of the biggest challenges enterprises face is managing the complexity of today's security environment and making sense of the overwhelming data produced by the sensors deployed across the network," said Joy Ghosh, Country Manger - India, Symantec. "The combined expertise and resources of PwC and Symantec provide customers the tools necessary to maximize the return on the investment they make in their security infrastructure while staying focused on their core business."

About The Symantec Security Management System
The Symantec Security Management System is a comprehensive set of management applications that provides a 360° view into the security of the enterprise to enable customers to quickly and confidently respond to attacks. It is comprised of multiple components for customers to select and deploy the right set of security management applications unique to their individual business objectives. The three key components of the Symantec Security Management System are Symantec Event Managers, Symantec Incident Manager and Symantec ESM for policy compliance.

About PricewaterhouseCoopers' Security and Privacy Practice
The Security and Privacy Practice (www.PricewaterhouseCoopersglobal.com/security) is devoted exclusively to the critical business issues of security, privacy, and compliance. With more highly trained professionals in the field than any other organization, our multi-disciplinary teams help clients effectively identify, assess, implement and manage security and privacy solutions. Through proven methodologies, best of breed tools, and best practice services, the Security and Privacy Practice helps organizations assess, design, implement, and maintain a secure and high performance business infrastructure.

About PricewaterhouseCoopers
PricewaterhouseCoopers (www.pwcglobal.com) is the world's largest professional services organization. Drawing on the knowledge and skills of more than 125,000 people in 142 countries, we build relationships by providing services based on quality and integrity.

("PricewaterhouseCoopers" refers to the network of member firms of PricewaterhouseCoopers International Limited, each of which is a separate and independent legal entity.)

About Symantec
Symantec, the world leader in Internet security technology, provides a broad range of content and network security software and appliance solutions to individuals, enterprises and service providers. The company is a leading provider of client, gateway and server security solutions for virus protection, firewall and virtual private network, vulnerability management, intrusion detection, Internet content and e-mail filtering, remote management technologies and security services to enterprises and service providers around the world. Symantec's Norton brand of consumer security products is a leader in worldwide retail sales and industry awards. Headquartered in Cupertino, Calif., Symantec has worldwide operations in 38 countries. For more information, please visit www.symantec.com.

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