Symantec Named a Leader in Zero Trust Report

Recognised with highest score in market presence and current offering categories

AUCKLAND, New Zealand – 20 November 2018 – Symantec Corp. (NASDAQ: SYMC), the world’s leading cyber security company, today announced that it has been positioned as a Leader in "The Forrester Wave™: Zero Trust eXtended (ZTX) Ecosystem Providers, Q4 2018," a new report published by Forrester Research, Inc.

Forrester’s Q4 2018 The Forrester WaveTM report evaluated 14 select vendors based on a comprehensive set of 15 evaluation criteria in the categories of current offering, strategy and market presence. Based on these criteria, Symantec was recognised as a Leader, earning the highest scores in the market presence and current offering categories.

According to the Forrester report, “Symantec is a juggernaut, given its breadth of security solutions. The company has extensive endpoint, network security, and threat identification capabilities.”

As organisations adopt the principles of Zero Trust, enterprises are turning to Symantec as a trusted leader to help them integrate this strategy into their broader security initiatives and evolve their approach to solve the security and compliance challenges of the cloud generation.

“Today’s cyber security threats are sophisticated and relentless, which is why it is so important that the principles of the Zero Trust approach are at the core of our Integrated Cyber Defense Platform and products,” said Mike Fey, president and COO, Symantec. “We believe being named a Leader in Zero Trust from Forrester Research is a testament to our platform’s ability to help enterprises strengthen data security and prevent threats across all of their devices, workloads, networks, and the cloud.”

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About Symantec

Symantec Corporation (NASDAQ: SYMC), the world's leading cyber security company, helps organisations, governments and people secure their most important data wherever it lives. Organisations across the world look to Symantec for strategic, integrated solutions to defend against sophisticated attacks across endpoints, cloud and infrastructure. Likewise, a global community of more than 50 million people and families rely on Symantec's Norton and LifeLock product suites to protect their digital lives at home and across their devices. Symantec operates one of the world's largest civilian cyber intelligence networks, allowing it to see and protect against the most advanced threats. For additional information, please visit www.symantec.com or connect with us on Facebook, Twitter, and LinkedIn.

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