Security 2.0 is Symantec's vision and strategy for protecting its customers from the next generation of risks to their information and interactions. It brings together our newest security products and services along with an ecosystem of strategic partnerships to help organizations remain confident in the connected world.

Security Foundation

As more devices connect to complex network environments, organizations need to ensure that every endpoint—including servers, laptops, and handhelds—have up-to-date security software. Symantec is integrating multiple security products such as antivirus, firewall, network access control, and antispyware into a single software management solution. This will enable organizations to configure devices and manage the entire environment from a single console, improving their security while also reducing complexity.

Coupled with the ever-dissolving network perimeter contributing to an increase in data leakage and breaches—essentially making "people the perimeter"—fortifying the security foundation is an essential component of an organization’s overall enterprise security strategy.

Information Foundation

Increasingly, corporate information assets are held in a variety of locations within the IT infrastructure. Traditionally, businesses managed and protected their information in ERP systems and databases. But today, enterprise customers must also account for the crucial information generated by and housed in non-traditional forms—such as in email folders, files, and instant messaging logs.

To help customers protect this wide range of information assets, Symantec provides a three-pronged approach that 1) helps keep the bad things out; 2) helps keep the good things in; and in some cases, 3) does both at the same time.

Compliance & Security Management

Today, security teams are faced with managing complex IT environments that include a large number of diverse security devices and new threats. They are required to provide management teams with better visibility into the company's security posture, as well as compliance with both internal mandates and external regulations. And, with tight budgets, organizations must determine whether they have the security expertise and resource to manage their IT environment.

Symantec's integrated Security and Compliance Management solution helps our customers proactively manage their IT security environment from new, more elusive threats such as data leakage, phishing, and internal attacks. Symantec's offerings also provide our customers with the ability to demonstrate that IT security controls are in place, effective, and well managed to reduce and mitigate risk.

Symantec provides customers with the greatest amount of flexibility to manage their security environment. Customers can choose to use Symantec's security management software with their own staff, Symantec's security consultants, outsource by using Symantec's Managed Security Services, or a combination of the above.