At a Glance
Founded in April 1982 IPO on June 23, 1989
More than 17,500 employees
Worldwide Headquarters: Cupertino, CA

Profile
Symantec is a global leader in providing security, storage and systems management solutions to help businesses and consumers secure and manage their information. Headquartered in Cupertino, Calif., Symantec has operations in more than 40 countries. More information is available at www.symantec.com.

Consumer Products

Symantec’s Norton brand of award-winning line of consumer products is a market leader in desktop protection for individual users, home offices and small businesses.

Security 2.0 is the company’s vision to protect people anytime and anywhere they go online. Today’s threats are no longer just associated with the device; they are focused on the information and the transactions themselves. With Security 2.0, Symantec’s mission is to deliver next generation security solutions with protection that revolves around you, not just your computing device. Symantec’s Norton product line is designed for today’s increasingly sensitive online interactions, such as financial transactions and instant messaging, safeguarding consumers from malicious threats and crimeware. Symantec stays ahead of the latest threats with the introduction of new technologies like Browser Defender which protects consumers from drive-by downloads and other new online threats.

Internet Security Solutions help defend home and home office users against viruses, worms, and other security risks. These solutions include spyware, spam and personal firewall protection for PCs, Macintosh® computers and mobile devices. As the flagship solution of Symantec’s Norton product line, Norton 360 is an all-in-one security solution, combining PC security, identity protection, backup and restore and PC tuneup capabilities. The comprehensive solution protects computers and the information stored in them from Internet threats and risks, as well as data loss, allowing computer users to freely engage in their everyday online activities without worry.

PC Tuneup Solutions help users prevent and resolve computer problems. Norton SystemWorks enhances PC performance with trusted utilities, system checkup and cleanup features.

Backup and Recovery Solutions provide consumers with tools to undo computer malfunctions and safeguard their important data. With easy-to-use backup and restore capabilities, Norton Save & Restore and Norton Ghost are ideal choices for securing irreplaceable files, photos, music and other data. Norton 360 also includes a variety of backup options.

Remote Expert-Assisted Services are designed for minimal user intervention. Symantec’s Norton Premium Services offers help when you need it with remote PC tuneup and optimization, virus and spyware removal and expert Norton software installation.

Security and Compliance

Endpoint Security and Management Solutions enable organizations to evaluate, protect, and remediate both managed and unmanaged systems as they connect to corporate assets. Integrated solutions help customers protect critical network endpoints such as desktops, servers, laptops, and mobile devices against known and unknown threats using technologies such as behavior-based protection, antivirus, antispyware, firewall, intrusion prevention, network access control, advanced management and monitoring.

Lifecycle management products provide customers visibility and control of heterogeneous IT assets. Automated systems management operations assist customers create repeatable, predictable and invisible systems management that improves service to the business. In addition, an extensible open collaborative architecture offers customers a platform for solution development and process-aware integration that allows them to manage heterogeneous environments through a centralized CMDB.

Information Risk Management Solutions enable organizations to minimize the risk of external threats, locate and prevent the loss of sensitive information, as well as manage, retain and discover that information when needed. By focusing on information-centric security, companies are able to take a risk-based approach that allows them to more efficiently secure and manage their information.
Our solutions leverage our market-leading anti-spam, data loss prevention, policy management, intelligent archiving and e-Discovery technologies to help protect and manage our customers’ most valuable asset – information.

IT Governance, Risk and Compliance Solutions allow customers to take a risk-based approach to managing IT controls compliance in order to support governance requirements and ultimately reduce risk. These solutions help organizations protect critical assets and reduce business risks by providing end-to-end automated coverage of the IT compliance lifecycle. From defining an IT control framework, assessing those controls, reporting on compliance status and deficiencies, and then remediating the deficiencies to ensure alignment with internal mandates and external regulations and frameworks.

Storage and Availability Management

Storage and Availability Management Solutions help organizations gain control, improve service levels and drive down costs within complex data center environments across heterogeneous storage and server platforms. Symantec enables companies to standardize on a single layer of infrastructure software that works on every operating system and supports every major storage device, every major virtual machine vendor, every major database and every major application.

Data Protection Solutions ensure successful backup and recovery of information and systems for organizations across all market segments, from small and medium-sized businesses to large enterprises, using the latest disk, tape, deduplication, indexing and virtual technologies.
Storage Management Solutions ensure data is going to the right place at the right time and is never lost. Products deliver storage management, storage resource management and storage utilization, SAN management, storage and server virtualization and replication.

High Availability and Disaster Recovery Solutions provide enterprise customers the ability to ensure that mission critical applications are always available. These products provide high-availability clustering in physical and virtual environments across heterogeneous storage and server platforms

Contact Information-Product Link/URL:
www.symantec.com