Symantec auditions for services residency
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Will look after data for cash Symantec made another effort to drop its âoh the virus guysâ image today when it unveiled two services programmes pitched at enterprise customers.â¦
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On Wednesday, Symantec released a beta of its new enterprise security product, Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.0, formerly codenamed Hamlet. The beta marks the company&#39;s most significant update to its enterprise security software in years.
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InfoWorld - Symantec Corp. Wednesday released a beta of its new enterprise security product, formerly code-named Hamlet, that melds technology from several of the company&#39;s acquisitions over the last few years.
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A product designed to protect Web surfers from phishing and pharming attacks is expected to ship on Monday. Symantec's Norton Confidential will be available from the Web site, with a shrinkwrapped version due in November.
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Strength in numbers Looking to strengthen its virtualization wares, XenSource has formed an intriguing alliance with Symantec.â¦
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The product formerly known as "Hamlet" is about to be made publicly available. Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.0 will be relased to public beta during next week's Symantec Vision conference in Las Vegas.
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Blog: New behavior-monitoring protection for the desktop is designed to compliment features in existing Symantec products.
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CUPERTINO, Calif. -- Symantec Corp. said Thursday it is acquiring digital security consulting firm @stake Inc. Financial details were not disclosed.
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Symantec is looking for beta testers for two of its newest products, Norton Internet Security 2008 and Norton AntiVirus 2008. Both are slated to ship later this year, but the company has opened up the beta process to iron out the bugs before its final release.
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Symantec has added disk-backup capability to its NetBackup software.
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While thousands of Veritas software users may be experiencing slow license renewals due to Symantec's new online licensing portal, the security software company's CIO said the wait is worth it compared with using pirated software.
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(InfoWorld) - Intel Corp. and Symantec Corp. plan to release a firmware-based PC security product in the first half of 2007 to stop hackers from disabling virus shields. This "virtual security solution" will run beneath the OS of a PC using Intel's vPro business bundle, such as Hewlett-Packard Co.'s Compaq dc7700 or Lenovo Group Ltd.'s ThinkCentre M55p desktops. The product could help to slow the trend of viruses and malware attacks that succeed only because the target PC has already lowered its defenses, either because of a well-meaning user or a malicious earlier hack, said Leo Cohen, vice president of the security technology group at Symantec. "The trend is for the disabling or misconfiguring of security safeguards, so we will move security out of the user and operator environment," he said Wednesday at the Intel Developer Forum in San Francisco. "This is something Symantec takes seriously: How do you make your security solutions tamper-resistant? We're working with Intel to put security in the hardware, in the firmware," Cohen said. Security experts increasingly say thatÂ a PC's biggest weakness is its own user, not a faulty firewall or defective virus shield. No matter how much security policies and tools improve, they are worthless unless they're enforced by the IT department, said Malcolm Harkins, general manager of Intel's information risk and security division. TheÂ HP spy scandal has shown how easy it is for hackers to use "social engineering" tactics to breach defenses, whether they are obtaining private phone records by pretending to be account holders, or planting tracking software on a reporter's PC by embedding it in an e-mail with a fake news tip. Likewise, companies have learned from battling viruses like Code Red, Slammer and Nimda to use networked controls to push patches out to 95 percent of their PCs immediately. But they could spend just as much time and money patching the last five percent, and they can't rely on users to apply the updates themselves, Harkins said. "If you're using real-time antivirus, desktop firewall, data encryption and weekly hard drive scans, that could slow your system, so some end-users will turn that off," said Harkins. "People say the perimeter is vanishing, with extranets and mobile computing. But it's not vanishing, it's just just shifted to the people, and they can forget to update their antivirus or talk too loudly on a cell phone in an airport. If you ignore that component, that's going to be the thing that gets you every time." Indeed, IT administrators say that 28 percent of malicious attacks work because of compromised security, according to an August survey commissioned by Symantec. Whether that security is misconfigured because of employees, poorly-written OS and application patches, or hackers themselves, the trend is increasing, the survey said. Â
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TechWeb - Symantec announced it is working on a Web-based console for IT administrators to manage Norton AntiVirus for the Macintosh clients -- the software is expected in two months.
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When solution providers look back on Symantec&#39;s acquisition of Veritas Software, they will likely remember it as the moment security and storage officially became joined at the hip.
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Symantec Corp. has repaired a serious problem with versions of its leading antivirus software, which protects some of the world&#039;s largest corporations and U.S. government agencies. The flaw lets hackers steal sensitive data, delete files or implant malicious programs.
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Symantec is making a play for a broader market with a new "information integrity" strategy, which users and analysts said meshes with their needs for corporate security. The question is whether the vendor can execute on its wider vision.
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(InfoWorld) - SymantecÂ has delayed the release of its first security suite for Windows Mobile devices. Early last week, the company had said it would unveil the software on May 29, but on Tuesday Symantec said that a consumer version of the product, called Norton Mobile Security for Smartphones, will not be launched until as late as December of this year. "After some review, we've decided to integrate this product into the cycle of our 2008 Norton product line launching in the fall timeframe," a company spokesman said Tuesday in an e-mail message. A corresponding enterprise product, called Symantec Mobile Security Suite 5.0, will be available in June, Symantec said. Although the company did not offer a firm date for this release, a likely target would be the week of June 12, when the company is hosting its annual Symantec Vision conference in Las Vegas. A public beta of the software will be available on Symantec's Web site "in the coming days," the spokesman said. Symantec already sells aÂ suite for phonesÂ based on the Symbian operating system, as well as antivirus software for Windows Mobile but these new products are expected to offer a much broader range of security features. The new Windows Mobile software will include antivirus, antispam, firewall, and data encryption capabilities, to keep data secure, even if the smartphone is lost. Symantec will also sell an optional VPN (virtual private network) component for users who want to securely connect with their corporate servers. The enterprise product will have advanced IT administration and auditing features. For example, administrators could wipe data off the phones remotely, or check an audit log to see everything that was done with the device after it was lost. Administrators will also be able to lock down certain mobile phone features, making them unavailable to users. Â