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Symantec is leading the consumer industry with “Security 2.0,” the company’s vision for delivering end-to-end security for consumers and rebuilding confidence online. With Security 2.0, Symantec is focused on securing increasingly sensitive online consumer interactions, such as financial transactions and instant messaging, as well as increasingly malicious threats and crimeware. Symantec will deliver on this vision over the next several years via a combination of consumer client-side technologies, online infrastructure and key partnerships. Recently announced products like Norton Confidential, which will include new transaction security, and Norton 360, a new all-in-one subscription service, are first steps.
Symantec’s Norton brand of consumer security solutions delivers Internet security and problem-solving capabilities to individual users, home offices, and small businesses. The Norton brand of products is a market leader in desktop protection, with integrated products that work seamlessly to protect customers’ computers from virus outbreaks and malicious attacks.
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.
System Performance Solutions help users prevent and resolve computer problems.
Backup and Recovery Solutions provide consumers with tools to undo computer malfunctions and safeguard their important data.
Remote PC Solutions allow users to manage remote computers securely.
Symantec offers products for backup and recovery of data and systems, optimizing storage resource utilization, simplifying administration of heterogeneous environments, and providing continuous availability of mission-critical applications and data.
Application Performance Management products optimize the performance and availability of enterprise applications.
Data Management Solutions are designed to protect, backup, archive, and restore data across a broad range of computing environments – from large corporate data centers to remote groups and desktop and laptop computers. The products integrate to provide solutions to manage data throughout its lifecycle – from creation to disposal, onsite and offsite, across all levels of storage hierarchy – including disk, tape, and optical storage media.
Infrastructure Management Solutions allow customers to manage virtually any function at any point in the lifecycle of their computing systems and devices. Solutions include network auto-discovery and IT asset management, operating system provisioning and application deployment, ongoing security updates and configuration management, rapid system recovery, de-provisioning, and help desk remote control.
Data Center Management Solutions help organizations gain control, improve service levels, and drive down costs within complex data center environments. These technologies deliver storage automation, virtualization, replication, high-availability clustering, server provisioning, and server management software across heterogeneous storage and server platforms.
Symantec provides enterprise security solutions for all network tiers: the gateway, the server, and the client level, including PCs, laptops, and handhelds.
Antivirus Solutions offer critical protection at the gateway, server, and client tiers against known and unknown threats.
Antispam Solutions filter spam and other undesired messages at the gateway and are critical to an overall email security solution.
Integrated Client Security Solutions are designed to ensure enterprise client systems are safe by providing comprehensive, proactive protection against blended threats, spyware, unauthorized network access, and other attacks.
Integrated Gateway Security Solutions are easy to manage, multifunction security appliances designed to provide fully integrated, layered security at the network gateway.
Intrusion Protection Solutions monitor systems for patterns of misuse and abuse and can warn organizations before systems or information is compromised.
Managed Security Services provide a comprehensive array of outsourced security management, monitoring, and response services to help organizations solve security problems cost effectively. Managed Security Services allow organizations to leverage the knowledge of Symantec’s Internet security experts to protect the value of their networked assets and infrastructure.
Policy Compliance Management Solutions help customers define, manage, and enforce policies from a central location as well as probe for network vulnerabilities and suggest remedies to proactively reduce business risk.
Security Management Solutions provide a comprehensive solution for the consolidation of security events, the containment of security threats, and the centralization of security policy enforcement. These products are built on an open, interoperable framework that enables Symantec products to work together with third party solutions to provide secure, manageable, and scalable enterprise security.
Threat and Early Warning Systems provide customized and comprehensive alerts of impending cyber attacks worldwide - with countermeasures to prevent attacks before they occur - enabling companies to mitigate risk, manage threats, and help ensure business continuity.
Symantec provides a full range of services to assist our customers in assessing, architecting, implementing, supporting, and maintaining their security, storage, and infrastructure software solutions. Our global services organization also provides customers with maintenance and technical support, consulting, and education services.
Symantec has founded and now leads many industry standards efforts, and most Symantec products are based on standards. A few examples of the standards that Symantec integrates in its products include SCSI, iSCSI, SNMP, Fibre Channel, the HBI-API, Ethernet, and SMI-S.
Symantec Involvement in Standards Organizations (partial list):
For detailed information on industry standards at Symantec, email standards@symantec.com.
Common Criteria is an internationally-recognized standard (ISO 15408) to assess the security of IT products. The US Department of Defense requires that information assurance products are certified under this program. Symantec has demonstrated commitment to meeting this rigorous testing standard for our international public sector customers. Symantec is strongly committed to this effort as it represents the universal security standard. Symantec has been a leader in this effort by initiating the Common Criteria Vendors’ Forum and participating in the International Common Criteria Conferences. Common Criteria Portal URL: http://www.commoncriteriaportal.org/
FIPS-140 (US Federal Information Processing Standard) is a cryptographic standard. The Cryptographic Module Validation Program (CMVP) was established by the US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the Canadian Communications Security Establishment (CSE) in July 1995. All of the tests under the CMVP are handled by third-party laboratories that are accredited as Cryptographic Module Testing (CMT) laboratories by the National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program (NVLAP). This standard is in place to ensure consistent standards for encryption strength and implementation correctness. FIPS 140 URL: http://csrc.nist.gov/cryptval/
The goal for ICSA Labs Certification is to enhance and improve security implementations of network and Internet computing, which will improve commercial security and its use of appropriate security products. Certification promotes user acceptance of increased security while improving the ease of use and seamless integration of security technology in everyday computing. ICSA Labs Certification criteria are public, objective and credible criteria that yield a pass-fail result. This certification is widely recognized by large enterprise customers. Symantec has been submitting its anti-virus products for ICSA testing for many years. ICSA Labs URL: https://www.icsalabs.com/icsa/icsahome.php
Past commercialized technologies from Symantec Research Labs include the company's first antispam technology, generic exploit blocking technology to proactively stop fast-spreading network threats, technology to improve the performance of our backup products, and technology to help protect our nation’s critical infrastructure.
Symantec Research Labs also works on projects in collaboration with external organizations, including customers, government agencies, and universities.
University Research
The University Research Program connects Symantec to the latest research in software development, and to leading professors and students at U.S. universities. The group’s goals include helping to recruit top PhD students to the company to cultivate the next generation of technical leadership, bringing researchers to Symantec to talk about their work to inspire technological innovation, and encouraging and funding university research in areas of Symantec's interest for longer-term commercialization.
Today, the University Research Program funds research centers at Carnegie Mellon, George Mason, Georgia Tech, Purdue, Stanford, University of California at Santa Cruz, University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA) and University of Minnesota. These funding efforts support technology research across a number of key areas for the company, including security, storage, and even consumer software user interface design. We also award annual fellowships and internships to the most promising student researchers.
Click here for information about the Labs' Graduate Fellowships.
Advanced Concepts
The Advanced Concepts group is a startup-type organization within Symantec Research Labs focused on building new products in emerging areas for release directly to a set of pilot customers. The goal is to eventually commercialize Advanced Concepts releases for all Symantec customers, creating entirely new businesses for the company. Advanced Concepts' first pilot project is Symantec Database Audit and Security.
