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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – April 20, 2010 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today released its new Internet Security Threat Report volume XV, which highlights key trends in cybercrime from Jan.1, 2009 to Dec. 31, 2009. In a year bookended by two very prominent Cyber attacks – Conficker in the opening months of the year and Hydraq at the very end – Symantec’s Internet Security Threat Report reveals continued growth in both the volume and sophistication of cybercrime attacks.
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – April 19, 2010 – Today Norton from Symantec (Nasdaq: SYMC) unveiled the 2011 beta versions of the award-winning Norton AntiVirus and Norton Internet Security, which are now available for free download from the Norton beta website. Additionally, the company launched its first beta security application for Facebook and two standalone security tools to address the increasingly common menace posed by fake antivirus programs and other infections.
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LAS VEGAS – Symantec Vision – April 14, 2010 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced the 2010 North America Visionary Award winners at Vision 2010, Symantec's user conference. Symantec developed the Visionary awards program to recognize IT thought leaders for their innovative use of technology to develop policies and systems that effectively protect and manage critical business information. Representing a wide range of industries, the 2010 Visionary award winners were recognized throughout the keynote sessions at Vision on Tuesday, April 13 and Wednesday, April 14.
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LAS VEGAS – Symantec Vision 2010 – April 14, 2010 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced enhancements to Veritas Storage Foundation that enable customers to simplify their storage management and more efficiently leverage existing resources to reduce costs and complexity in their data centers. Storage Foundation’s thin optimization functionality supports Windows, Unix and Linux environments and is the only technology on the market today that fully automates storage optimization in thin storage environments – eliminating storage waste and ensuring that customers only have as much physical storage allocated to their hosts as required to support real application data.
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LAS VEGAS - Symantec Vision - April 13, 2010 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced four new solution suites designed to secure and manage IT assets. The risk to confidential information continues to grow as IT executives are facing an increasing number of threats to their information from both internal and external sources. Today’s attacks are proving to be more sophisticated, well-organized and covert in nature than attacks seen in years past, thus requiring a new approach to security.
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LAS VEGAS - Symantec Vision - April 13, 2010 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced Symantec Control Compliance Suite 10.0, the next version of Symantec’s holistic, fully-automated solution to manage all aspects of IT risk and compliance. Control Compliance Suite 10.0 is expected to provide even greater visibility into an organization’s security and compliance posture while still lowering compliance cost and complexity. The solution plans to do this by: integrating content awareness from Symantec Data Loss Prevention; adding a new component to assess infrastructure vulnerabilities; and providing a seamlessly-integrated facility to automate the collection and management of evidence from external sources. To complement the wealth of data sources centralized within Control Compliance Suite 10.0, new dynamic web-based dashboards are expected to make it possible to get the right information to the right people quickly and easily.
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LAS VEGAS - Symantec Vision - April 13, 2010 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced an updated version of Symantec Data Loss Prevention designed to help businesses prevent data leaks in their changing IT environments. Symantec Data Loss Prevention 10.5, the latest version of Symantec’s market leading data security suite, enables the use of social media while guarding against data loss, protects information in private clouds and helps organizations take ownership of unstructured data, such as documents, spreadsheets and email.
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LAS VEGAS - Symantec Vision - April 13, 2010 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced Altiris IT Management Suite 7.0, providing customers with complete management capabilities that enhance effectiveness through faster deployments and increased security, reduce costs by closing technology gaps and improve manageability amidst the increasing information and infrastructure sprawl. IT Management Suite rounds out the new Symantec enterprise security solutions, designed to provide security continuity and enable organizations to continuously respond to internal and external threats and changes.
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LAS VEGAS - Symantec Vision - April 13, 2010 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) will unify information security management across endpoints, gateways and servers, and deliver targeted protection for the Enterprise with the release of new Symantec Protection Suites. The new Protection Suite solutions, scheduled to be available during the summer of 2010, are expected to alleviate challenges of security administrators and bring in simplicity and in-depth protection across the enterprise infrastructure.
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – April 5, 2010 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) will webcast its quarterly earnings conference call on Wednesday, May 5, 2010, at 5 p.m. ET/2 p.m. PT to discuss the results of its fiscal fourth quarter and fiscal year 2010, ended April 2, 2010.
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. and TRAVERSE CITY, Mich. – April 5, 2010 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) and the Ponemon Institute, a leading privacy and information management research firm, today announced the findings of a joint survey of IT professionals. The survey revealed that most organizations lack the procedures, policies and tools to ensure that sensitive information they put in the cloud remains secure. Despite security concerns and the expected growth in cloud computing, only 27 percent of respondents said their organizations have procedures for approving cloud applications that use sensitive or confidential information.
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – March 30, 2010 – Norton from Symantec (Nasdaq: SYMC) announced today that it has appointed Adam Palmer as Norton Lead Cybersecurity Advisor. Formerly a cybercrime prosecutor and legal director for the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC), Palmer is a pioneer in the field of cybercrime law and its enforcement, bringing more than a decade of experience in private industry and government service.
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., and TEMPE, Ariz. – March 25, 2010 – This weekend LifeLock, the leader in providing consumers with proactive identity theft protection, and Symantec (Nasdaq: SYMC), whose Norton brand provides Internet security to millions of consumers, will be challenging NBC’s Celebrity Apprentice reality show and Donald Trump’s cast of celebrities with a very real problem: help stop identity theft before it starts.
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – March 23, 2010 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced Web Security Monitoring, a new managed security services offering designed to help customers protect their end users and online Web presence from pervasive Web threats. Web Security Monitoring provides 24x7 monitoring and analysis of Web security technologies to protect organizations – enabling rapid reaction to threats to end users, Web presence and confidential data, identifying gaps in security controls to foster proactive security improvements and demonstrating compliance to internal policies and industry regulations.
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – March 22, 2010 – Cybercrime, a threat that affects one in five online shoppers¹ and cost Americans $560 million in 2009 due to online fraud², may hit closer to home than many realize. Norton from Symantec (Nasdaq: SYMC) teamed up with independent research firm Sperling’s BestPlaces to find and expose the nation’s top 10 cities most vulnerable to cybercrime.
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – March 3, 2010 – Norton from Symantec (Nasdaq: SYMC) announced today that its free online safety service, OnlineFamily.Norton, was awarded the iParenting Media Award in the Best Software category. OnlineFamily.Norton is the only Web-based service to give parents the tools they need to connect with their children’s online lives and start an ongoing dialogue about what their kids see, learn and do on the computer. Through a unique approach that establishes house rules to govern expected online conduct, OnlineFamily.Norton encourages all parents to have “The Talk” with their kids about what they’re doing online and how to act responsibly.
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – March 2, 2010 – At the RSA conference today, Symantec Corp (Nasdaq; SYMC) announced its latest messaging security platforms, Symantec Brightmail Gateway 9.0 and Symantec Brightmail Gateway 9.0 Small Business Edition. The new versions will deliver enhanced protection through real-time updates, provide greater control through integrated email encryption and offer increased scalability to meet the needs of both enterprises and small businesses. Symantec Brightmail Gateway 9.0 and Symantec Brightmail Gateway 9.0 Small Business Edition are scheduled to be available in Spring 2010.
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – March 2, 2010 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced Symantec Data Insight, a new technology that enables organizations to improve data governance through insights into the ownership and usage of unstructured data, including files such as documents, spreadsheets and emails. Data Insight represents innovation and integration across Symantec’s product portfolio in security and storage, providing organizations a unified approach to data governance. Data Insight is the only integrated technology of its kind to help organizations align their information assets to business goals by simplifying the remediation of exposed critical data and optimizing their storage environment. Symantec Data Loss Prevention is planned to be the first solution to fully integrate Data Insight followed by storage and information management solutions later this year.
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – March 1, 2010 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced Symantec Health, a new hosted medical image archiving and sharing solution for healthcare providers, that helps lower storage costs and provides secure, Web-based image sharing for non-affiliated hospitals and physicians. The new Symantec Health Safe solution consists of two components: Symantec Health Safe and Symantec Health Image Share.
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. – February 22, 2010 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today released the findings of its global 2010 State of Enterprise Security study. The study found that 42 percent of organizations rate security their top issue. This isn’t a surprise, considering that 75 percent of organizations experienced cyber attacks in the past 12 months. These attacks cost enterprise businesses an average of $2 million per year. Finally, organizations reported that enterprise security is becoming more difficult due to understaffing, new IT initiatives that intensify security issues and IT compliance issues. The study is based on surveys of 2,100 enterprise CIOs, CISOs and IT managers from 27 countries in January 2010.
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