The Hindu Business Line : Symantec outlines new strategy to secure enterprises' info

SYMANTEC Corporation, an information security services provider, has announced a new approach for enterprise customers to view and manage the risks around protecting, securing, and accessing information, through what the company described as Information Integrity.

Offered in league with its partners and customers, the Symantec's new concept addresses the need to keep businesses growing, even in the event of Internet threats or other disruptive events.

Speaking to Business Line on Wednesday, the Vice-President of Symantec Asia Pacific, Ms Michelle Amery, and the Enterprise Sales Director, Mr Joy Ghosh, said, "There is heightened concern about security of information. Based on the feedback from enterprises across the world, we have evolved a new approach that seeks to address security from a single integrated approach thereby solving various pain points."

Ms Amery said, "Digital information has become an influential phenomenon. In fact, many believe a substantial part of the world's economy revolves around the use, storage and movement of digital information."

Symantec's new approach provides customers with an end-to-end business process for balancing security with availability beginning with the need for organisations to assess the risk of vulnerabilities, exposures and threats. Therefore, a unified approach to security is the key for large enterprises whose services cannot afford any downtime.

Verticals such as banking and financial services, the growing telecom sector and interestingly Government applications, have been aggressively taking to this approach.

"While regulatory compliance related policies and issues create additional pressure on IT resources, enterprises face the challenge to curb software vulnerabilities, online fraud and spam while constantly extending information access to mobile workforce. This is where this integrated management approach helps enterprises," they explained.