Symantec achieves largest overall SSL market growth and named leader in several categories by Gartner

 


 

Symantec Positioned as a Leader in Three Recent Magic Quadrants

 

 

TORONTO, ON – August 24, 2011 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced that it has been positioned by Gartner, Inc. in the Leaders quadrant in the following reports:

The Magic Quadrant positions vendors based on their ability to execute and completeness of vision.

Click to Tweet: Symantec named a leader in Gartner Magic Quadrants for DLP, email gateway and SIEM. http://bit.ly/qA0CwK

“To give our  customers confidence that their information and infrastructure are protected, Symantec will continue to innovate and deliver multiple layers of protection and increased visibility,” said Sean Doherty, Security Group CTO, Symantec. “We believe being recognized as a leader in three important areas of security technology is evidence that our diverse security portfolio is ideally suited for today’s complex threat landscape.”

Symantec Data Loss Prevention

 

Symantec, the recognized world leader in Data Loss Prevention, delivers a proven solution to discover, monitor and protect confidential data wherever it is stored or used. The solution allows organizations to measurably reduce the risk of a data breach, establish broad-based security awareness and safeguard customer privacy, brand equity and intellectual property. 

 

Email Security from Symantec

 

Symantec Messaging Gateway delivers inbound and outbound messaging security and leverages the depth and breadth of the Symantec Global Intelligence Network to catch more than 99% of spam4 with less than one in a million false positives. Symantec Messaging Gateway combines effective and accurate real-time antispam and antivirus protection, advanced content filtering and email encryption.  In addition, Symantec Messaging Gateway integrates Symantec’s leading data loss prevention technology to protect confidential information.

 

For hosted email security, Symantec offers Symantec MessageLabs Email Security. cloud, which combines advanced email antivirus, antispam, and content filtering capabilities delivered across a globally integrated infrastructure in an easy to manage  solution that requires no on-site hardware or software. Part of an integrated approach to securing and managing email, Web, and instant messaging traffic, Email Security.cloud has  industry-leading Service Level Agreements (SLAs) that cover 100 percent protection against known and unknown viruses, 99 percent spam capture rate and 100 percent service uptime and includes 24x7 global customer support through a dedicated team of hosted services specialists. 

 

Security Information & Event Management from Symantec

Symantec Security Information Manager enables a documented, repeatable process for security threat response and IT policy compliance via integrated log management and incident response solutions.  Comprehensive real-time correlation of malicious security with the Symantec Global Intelligence Network, one of the world’s leading cyber intelligence communities,  makes it a world-class threat monitoring and response system.  Symantec Security Information Manager delivers proactive security protection, helping organizations effectively demonstrate compliance and reduce overall security risk.

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About the Magic Quadrant

The Magic Quadrants are copyrighted 2011 by Gartner, Inc. and are reused with permission. The Magic Quadrant is a graphical representation of a marketplace at and for a specific time period. It depicts Gartner's analysis of how certain vendors measure against criteria for that marketplace, as defined by Gartner. Gartner does not endorse any vendor, product or service depicted in the Magic Quadrant, and does not advise technology users to select only those vendors placed in the "Leaders" quadrant. The Magic Quadrant is intended solely as a research tool, and is not meant to be a specific guide to action. Gartner disclaims all warranties, express or implied, with respect to this research, including any warranties of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

 

About Symantec

Symantec’s Canadian operations are headquartered in Toronto with offices in Montreal, Ottawa, Calgary and Vancouver.  For more information on Symantec products or current promotions, access Symantec’s Canadian Web site at www.symantec.ca. Symantec is an active member of the Business Software Alliance (BSA).


Symantec is a global leader in providing security, storage 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 information is available at www.symantec.com.

 

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Symantec Shows Largest Growth in SSL Certificates for August and

Continues to Lead Critical EV SSL Market

 

TORONTO, ON – August 24, 2011 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced that it achieved the largest overall SSL certificate growth in the market for August, with a gain of 19,892 total certificates for the month. Symantec remains the market share leader among all SSL certificate authorities worldwide. Symantec also demonstrated leadership in the growing extended validation (EV) SSL market, which grew overall to more than 47,000 certificates.

 

Click to Tweet: Symantec leads the growing EV SSL business, according to Netcraft Survey: http://bit.ly/q6jhiU    

 

Extended Validation growth

Symantec was responsible for most (1,752) of this month's overall growth of 2,725 EV certificates, helping to increase the total to 47,532. Netcraft reported that Symantec leads the space with a market share of 68 percent, further demonstrating that when it comes to web security, the majority of organizations online rely on Symantec. 

 

When a website is protected with an EV SSL Certificate, the latest high-security browsers show prominent visual cues to signal that the site has been authenticated to a higher level. For instance, Internet Explorer as well as Firefox browsers display a green address bar and a field with the name of the organization that owns the website. Both are instantly recognizable signals to consumers that they have reached a website whose identity has been certified by a recognized SSL certificate authority such as Symantec.

 

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“The Netcraft Survey data for August clearly demonstrates that EV SSL is a growing business and that Symantec is leading the charge,” said Fran Rosch, vice president of Trust Services at Symantec. “Customers continually realize the value of working with a trusted certificate authority for SSL and EV SSL and view Symantec as a trusted partner as we continue our innovation and leadership to provide the most comprehensive product lineup and highest standards in technical support.”

 

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Symantec helps organizations secure and manage their information-driven world with endpoint security, messaging security, web security, data protection, identity validation and authentication, and security management solutions.

About Symantec

Symantec’s Canadian operations are headquartered in Toronto with offices in Montreal, Ottawa, Calgary and Vancouver.  For more information on Symantec products or current promotions, access Symantec’s Canadian Web site at www.symantec.ca. Symantec is an active member of the Business Software Alliance (BSA).


Symantec is a global leader in providing security, storage 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 information is available at www.symantec.com.