BARCELONA, Spain - Mobile World Congress 2012 - Feb. 27,
2012 - Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) Symantec Corp.
(Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced significant advances in core
areas of its enterprise mobility strategy across Android,
iOS and Windows Phone 7 platforms. These advances help
customers secure mobile data and enable business
productivity across both corporate managed and personally
owned unmanaged devices by providing cross-platform,
multi-application protection. Key highlights include:
: Symantec advances enterprise mobility strategy with
enhancements on Android, iOS, Windows Phone 7: http://bit.ly/xqT9Mm
Symantec is empowering enterprises to foster mobile
productivity by enabling new business models that rely on
diverse mobile devices and innovative mobile applications.
Symantec's comprehensive data and application security
address enterprises' concerns by applying corporate
security policies uniformly on all mobile devices,
endpoints and applications. Symantec's modular enterprise
mobility platform will allow these services to be delivered
via on-prem and SaaS models, as part of existing security
and management solutions, to drive operational efficiencies
and lower total-cost-of-ownership.
"Our recent State of Mobility Survey highlighted that 59
percent of enterprises are making line-of-business
applications accessible from mobile devices, representing a
dramatic shift in the nature of mobility from an email
extension to a core business enabler," said CJ Desai,
senior vice president, Endpoint and Mobility Group,
Symantec. "Symantec is at the forefront of enabling
enterprise productivity. With these new enhancements to our
mobile portfolio, we will offer the most comprehensive
solution set for securing mobile devices, apps and data.
With Symantec, enterprises no longer have to choose between
productivity and security. We are changing the game by
allowing them to confidently achieve both."
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This announcement advances Symantec's enterprise mobility
strategy by enhancing capabilities in device management,
threat protection and enterprise integration.
Device Management
For enterprises that need a solution to centrally secure
and manage mobile devices and applications, Mobile
Management includes security policy management and
application management for Android, iOS and Windows Mobile
7 platforms. From a unified management perspective,
Symantec is announcing Mobile Management for Microsoft SCCM
will be generally available in March. This, in addition to
existing integration with Altiris IT Management Suite from
Symantec, will make Mobile Management available for two of
the most widely deployed management platforms. This
enhanced support gives enterprises the visibility and
control required to confidently embrace the proliferation
of mobile devices.
Threat Protection
According to Symantec's State of Mobility Survey, 67
percent of enterprises are concerned with malware attacks
spreading from mobile devices to internal networks. With
multiple app stores and unchecked applications, Android is
a frequent target for malware, raising the possibility of
data theft and browser-based phishing attacks. In response,
Symantec plans to bring its anti-malware technology and
global intelligence network capabilities to the Android
platform with Mobile Security for Android. With the release
of Mobile Security for Android, Symantec will help prevent
rogue applications from stealing corporate and personal
data and will enable safe web browsing. This solution will
be generally available in late summer 2012.
Enterprise Integration
According to the same survey, 65 percent of enterprises
cited data loss as one of their top concerns for mobile
adoption. Symantec addresses the problem with Data Loss
Prevention for Tablets, which is now generally available.
Available first for the iPad, this solution monitors and
controls the transmission of confidential data by applying
industry leading fingerprinting and advanced machine
learning technologies. Combined with Symantec's recent
release of Mobile Management, Data Loss Prevention for
Tablets provides the industry's strongest closed-loop
solution to enable organizations to support business
productivity and personal use concurrently across corporate
and personal email, web communications and native
applications.
No enterprise data is secure without proper access and
authentication policies in place. To enable strong user and
device authentication to enterprise networks and
applications, Mobile Management is integrated with the new
Managed PKI Service v8.3, which includes certificate
management enhancements for iOS devices. This simplified
integration automates the steps involved in extending PKI
systems to mobile devices for user identity and
authorization, speeding the time to value with a user
friendly, transparent process.
With 31 percent of IT personnel currently dealing with
mobile related initiatives,¹ driving efficiency and lower
total-cost-of-ownership is paramount. To deliver a broader
array of choices for enterprises to manage their mobile
deployments, Symantec will be making its enterprise
mobility platform available. This console-agnostic platform
will help Symantec extend its reach in the protection of
mobile users by allowing enterprises, partners and telcos
to quickly and efficiently integrate their offerings with a
common web services and agent architecture.
In combination with Symantec O3 - the company's cloud
information protection platform - the Symantec enterprise
mobility platform will enable secure usage of cloud apps
from mobile devices. This combination provides layered
information security and information management controls on
the device and in the cloud to secure native applications
as well as SaaS use-cases. With support for a wide variety
of cloud apps and services and integration with wide
variety of identity sources, Symantec enables innovative
business models created in the confluence of cloud and
mobile technologies.
Additional Quotes
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"Securing tablets is a hot issue. It's where the
workforce is going, and it is critical to control the
information that is leaving from these devices. Symantec
Data Loss Prevention for Tablets does just that, it
ensures the confidential data on tablets will be
protected and helps to balance the need for security with
productivity of users." - Robert Kalinofski, Principal
Consultant , Carbn Security
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"The overwhelming demands of consumerization and access
to information from mobile devices is leaving enterprise
IT departments to struggle with the requirements of
device choice, the new era of mobile apps and the blurred
lines between corporate and personal data. Organizations
must look to secure the complete ecosystem: devices, apps
and data. Doing that in an efficient manner that enables
business productivity will be key to success." -
Leif-Olof Wallin, Research VP, Gartner
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and systems management solutions to help consumers and
organizations secure and manage their information-driven
world. Our software and services protect against more risks
at more points, more completely and efficiently, enabling
confidence wherever information is used or stored. More
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¹ Symantec, "State of Mobility Survey," February 22, 2012
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