The Hindu Business Line : Symantec opens lab in Pune

The scenario
Eighty-six per cent of the total attacks were targeted at home users and the high numbers were due to unchecked and compromised computers.
This was prevalent more in Mumbai and New Delhi, followed closely by Bangalore and Hyderabad, he said.

Pune , Nov. 21

Symantec today inaugurated its eighth global security response lab at its Centre of Innovation in Pune. The other response labs are located in Tokyo, Taiwan, Canada, California (which houses three labs) and Dublin.

Talking to presspersons, Mr Vincent Weafer, Senior Director, Development Symantec Security Response, said the lab was part of its global intelligence network, which included researchers collecting information about online fraud, malicious code and security risks, analysing them and develop real-time updates. He said the lab's aim was to detect, protect and remediate.

The lab would also provide rapid security protection through its incident response programme, including emergency ant-ivirus signatures, definitions and policies as well as outbound communication such as alerting services.

Mr Vishal Dhupar, Managing Director, Symantec, South Asian Association for Regional Co-operation region, noted that the trends Symantec expects to see in the future are a resurgence of polymorphism and other evasion techniques in Win32 malicious code.

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