Expect a major battle between the Redmond machine and traditional security vendors such as McAfee and Symantec.
He has worked with companies such as Time Warner, IBM, EMC, Symantec, and CitiGroup.
He has worked with companies such as Time Warner, Symantec, IBM, EMC, and CitiGroup.
Symantec this morning posted better-than-expected results for its fiscal third quarter ended December 28.
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Symantec has the longest history of attempting this cross over strategy with little success.
"It certainly has the potential to make things more confusing, " says Symantec security expert Ben D.
All in all, the company is becoming a major problem for rival Symantec (NASDAQ:SYMC).
Schlein, who helped build Symantec's antivirus business and long wondered how to improve security.
GuardianEdge, already a Symantec technology partner for Symantec Endpoint Encryption, provides strength in the government sector.
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Symantec, the computer security software leader, is a buy even Scroogey value investors can like.
When Microsoft began offerings its antivirus software for free in June of last year, Symantec scoffed.
Guardian Edge in particular is focused on mobile device encryption, and had been a Symantec partner.
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McAfee competes with Symantec and TrendMicro in the enterprise as well as consumer antivirus market.
Symantec has an added advantage of a line of security software focused on enterprise solutions.
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Kasperky competes with Symantec (SYMC) and McAffee, the two largest software security firms in the world.
According to a recent report by Symantec, targeted attacks on enterprises are becoming more common.
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Prior to your new role at Symantec, you were CEO of a small business.
To date, LiveOps has over 200 customers, including Salesforce.com, Symantec, and the Royal Mail Group.
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But Kevin Hogan, senior manager at Symantec security response, said such warnings were premature.
The simple virus, backdoor.breut, acts like a bull in a china shop, Symantec's Thakur said.
Symantec research manager Liam O Murchu said they were dangerous to users because they were new.
More than 50 companies have been acquired by tech giants like Google, Microsoft, Adobe, Symantec, Yahoo!
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For example, Symantec has started to offer Norton Online Backup, a data recovery software.
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Symantec Security Check probes 12 of the most commonly used ports for security against unwelcome access.
Symantec is aware of the GRC service, but draws on its utilities to hone its offerings.
The program's contact manager interacts with several popular packages, including Symantec's Act, Microsoft Outlook, and Goldmine.
But a me-too acquisition of Symantec would be unlikely and unwise, Pescatore argues, for practically any customer.
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Symantec delivered third quarter fiscal year 2013 results with EPS and revenue surpassing the Zacks Consensus Estimates.
These cyberscammers aren't suffering from pangs of conscience, says Zulfikar Ramzam, a senior principal researcher at Symantec.
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