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Bay Dynamics: Becoming an Elite Partner in Symantec’s Technology Partner Program

What It Means to Us and Our Customers

When Bay Dynamics was offered a chance to join the Symantec Technology Integration Partner Program (TIPP) as an Elite partner, we jumped at the offer. We’ve long partnered with Symantec on our Risk Fabric analytics platform, which gives businesses a central point of behavioral analytics to help protect and defend their data from malicious attacks. With our participation in TIPP, we knew we’d be getting a way to automate access to Symantec’s wide range of cyber security products and data streams – and ultimately keep our customers even safer.

One of Symantec’s strengths has always been its broad product portfolio, utilizing their Integrated Cyber Defense platform which includes: Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Cloud Security, Endpoint Security, Encryption Solutions and more. TIPP makes it easy for us to leverage security data and telemetry from all of Symantec’s solutions in a single stream. We don’t have to work with individual APIs or separate teams to get access to it.

As Peter Doggart, Symantec's VP of Business Development explains about TIPP, "While many partner programs exist today, we have decided to focus on the technical integration aspect of partnership. This is the single most important aspect of making a difference in security. By working to integrate our data feeds, linking together our defensive platforms, leveraging each other’s advanced detection suites, automating workflows to increase productivity, only then can we make a real impact."

TIPP’s integrated approach offers us a flexible configuration that makes it easy to take advantage of Symantec’s solutions. When new data streams become available, we have to do very little work to assimilate them – they just show up. That means our customers immediately get to put it to work in their own use cases. They get more control over building their analytics, and more knobs and levers so they can tailor it to their unique needs.

With TIPP our engineers don’t have to spend nearly as much time integrating our products with Symantec’s portfolio. It’s now essentially automated. So the level of effort required for us to create compelling use cases with network data, for example, has been effectively cut in half. We can reinvest our engineers’ time into building new capabilities and taking advantage of new Symantec data such as unique information that becomes available in Symantec’s Endpoint Protection. TIPP has also given us access to new data streams that we otherwise wouldn’t have access to. And it’s reduced our cost of doing and supporting integration, so we can concentrate on innovation

We leverage cyber security analytics to find the most timely and relevant threats to enterprises. With TIPP, we get access to new data coming out of Symantec products faster, which allows us to bring more analytic value to end users more quickly. We also now have a flexible pool of data we can query. That helps us build a platform that lets enterprises customize their own models to suit their needs rather than rely on prebuilt ones. Because of that, we’re providing more value to our customers, which ultimately makes us more competitive and helps us better attract new clients and retain existing ones.

We’re committed to working closely with Symantec to help enterprises protect and defend their data from cyber attacks. TIPP, by bringing the power of Symantec’s entire portfolio into one easy-to-access stream, makes that far easier to do.

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About the Author

Ryan Stolte

CTO, Information Security Group

Ryan is focused on providing innovative solutions to identify and mitigate data breaches and insider threats as part of the Symantec Enterprise Division. He was the co-founder and CTO of Bay Dynamics, acquired by Broadcom.

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