symantec in comment and analysis
Leader: Consolidate, consolidate, consolidate
Leader Add to that Symantec buying Brightmail, TurnTide and @stake, McAfee splashing out on Foundstone, TruSecure and BeTrusted merging, Microsoft buying GeCad and numerous other movements in the market, and it creates an image of an industry rapidly... [06 Oct 2004]
Leader: 'Tisn't the season for IPOs
Leader Then there are those that have cancelled their debuts all together, such as nanotechnology company Nanosys or antispam software firm Brightmail, which decided to take a different route and be acquired by public company Symantec. [09 Aug 2004]
Security Q&A: Your questions answered (Part 3)
Comment Enrique Salem, CEO of Brightmail (now senior VP Symantec, post acquisition), answers: "One of the most challenging aspects of fighting spam is that everyone's definition of spam is different, as such closing down a site which you believe is in the... [06 Aug 2004]
Leader: Of course Linux is more secure...
Leader John Thompson, CEO of Symantec, recently came up with a fairly neat one, likening virus writers and hackers to graffiti artists. Research out today found that 78 per cent of developers working with Linux claim never to have had their systems hacked... [03 Aug 2004]
Analysis: The network is the security
Comment Contenders from the security industry include Check Point Software Technologies, McAfee and Symantec. Symantec has a deep portfolio, momentum and a solutions-focused mindset driven by CEO John Thompson, a former IBM honcho. [14 Jul 2004]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Out-of-the-box options
Comment To stand their ground, the broad-play security vendors like CA and Symantec have also been buying up smaller security specialists, appliance-based or otherwise. But what are they used for today? Quocirca's Bob Tarzey explains. [09 Jul 2004]
Leader: Microsoft too popular for our own good
Leader Symantec's CEO offered an interesting defence of Microsoft this week.and even managed to sound like he was putting the boot in while he did it. John Thompson, CEO of Symantec, likened virus writers to graffiti artists - and the operating systems... [02 Jun 2004]
Leader: Stopping unnecessary emails...
Leader It sounds like Symantec is the first of many established antivirus vendors to drop this outdated and problematic function and that can only be good news. Far be it from silicon.com to get all 'it was us what won it' - but it wasn't that long ago we... [11 May 2004]
Quocirca's Straight Talking: Get smart about wireless security
Comment Solutions for managing security policy enforcement in this way and implementing staged access to the network rather than the traditional "all or nothing" approach to connection are emerging from the likes of Cisco, 3Com, NAI, Symantec and Microsoft. [07 May 2004]
Quocirca’s Straight Talking... What to expect in 2004
Comment Here, winners are likely to be the likes of Symantec, NAI, CA and IBM GS. Kicking off a brand new series exclusive to silicon.com, Quocirca's service director Clive Longbottom asks what - and who - the winners and losers will be over the next 12... [02 Jan 2004]
Worm's spread shows holes in patch system
Comment Security firm Symantec offered a more conservative number, based on its intrusion detection network. This week's MSBlast outbreak is raising old questions about the effectiveness of software patches that are intended to secure computers. [13 Aug 2003]
What the last quarter's financials mean
Comment Checkpoint, Network Associates and Symantec all released results this week underlining their success in taking advantage of this upsurge in IT security interest. Results season again. Admittedly it's not the most interesting time of year but... [18 Jan 2002]
Why the software police is facing opposition
Comment It is no more than a private body acting in the interests of its members who include Adobe, Corel, Symantec and Microsoft. The Business Software Alliance (BSA) wants to crackdown on software piracy and it has come up with a cunning new plan. [22 Nov 2001]
Windows XP - a first glance
Comment True competition for Symantec's pcAnywhere and the like. There, I've said it. These would be the best two words to describe the latest version of Windows which just may be winging its way to a desktop near you soon. [22 Oct 2001]
Anti-viral teamwork: How a Panda highlighted industry shortcomings
Comment US firm Symantec felt equally frustrated. Two of the largest vendors, Symantec and NAI have so far refused to join the list. According to Symantec's Chien, the company is considering signing up - but has a number of issues to deal with first. [16 Jan 2001]
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