Symantec Survey Finds Split in How to Implement Mobility; Francis deSouza Comments
A Symantec survey has divided organizations into two categories regarding how they choose to implement mobile devices into the workplace in response to user demand and other pressures. The company identified “innovators” as those who readily embrace mobility and “traditionals” that are reluctant to implement it, Symantec says in its findings. Sixty-six percent of companies [...]
Symantec Corp. has said that at least 25 state governments in the U.S. have purchased Clearwell eDiscovery platform as a solution, according to a company statement. Some clients use the software’s analytics capability to investigate Medicare fraud and for general litigation support, while others implement the software in securities, public safety and environmental use cases. The states of Ohio [...]
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Symantec and Giesecke & Devrient have agreed to develop protected security applications for smartphones and tablets in a move aimed at helping application developers deliver products and services that meet security requirements. Under the partnership, Symantec will use G&D’s Trusted Service Manager to update the company’s mobile apps and protect the apps’ cryptographic keys and [...]
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Technicians from Microsoft and Symantec helped U.S. federal marshals raid data centers in New Jersey and Virginia Wednesday in order to stop a global cyber crime operation, Reuters reports. Jim Finkle writes the Bamital botnet could control infected computers, install viruses for identity theft and place computers into networks that attack websites and conduct other [...]
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Symantec has released a new mobile application to provide security professionals a dashboard for network security monitoring and protection, Fierce Mobile IT reports. The Symantec Protection Center Mobile dashboard will provide nontechnical users threat intelligence, security incidents and control gaps. David Dorosin, director of product marketing, told the website the app collects network data from [...]
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Symantec is developing a new cloud computing strategy containing three approaches to cloud adoption, according to a blog post from DLT Solutions. Chris Uttenweiler wrote that he has been working with Symantec to develop a cloud platform that supports communication security, data protection, authentication services, end user protection and event monitoring. Symantec’s cloud strategy will [...]
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