Symantec Leads Unprecedented Industry Collaboration
to Drive Down Cost and Complexity of Cyber Security
More than 120 Partners, Including AWS, Box, IBM Security, Microsoft, Oracle, ServiceNow and Splunk,
Commit to Symantec’s Integrated Cyber Defense Platform
AUCKLAND, New Zealand. – 28 February 2019 – Symantec Corp. (NASDAQ: SYMC), the world’s leading cyber security company, today announced that
more than 120 companies have joined forces with Symantec to drive down the cost and complexity of cyber security, while
improving response times to protect enterprises against sophisticated threats. This includes major players like AWS,
Box, IBM Security, Microsoft, Oracle, ServiceNow and Splunk, as well as dozens of other technology innovators, who are
now building or deliveringmore than 250 products and services that integrate with Symantec’s Integrated Cyber Defense
(ICD) Platform.
This unprecedented industry collaboration reflects a “platform shift” in the cyber security industry, as new research
from Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) shows enterprise customers are looking to consolidate vendors and adopt more
integrated platforms backed by an open ecosystem.
Integrated defence improves security by increasing the speed and effectiveness, while greatly reducing the resources
required. To make that shift even easier, Symantec also today announced important innovations – including a new
universal data exchange, shared management capabilities, and upgraded data loss prevention software that help customers
stop untrusted apps before they compromise confidential data. All are built on Symantec’s ICD Platform, which provides a
unified framework for information protection, threat protection, identity management and compliance across endpoints,
networks, applications, and clouds.
“There’s a seismic shift happening in cyber security,” said Art Gilliland, EVP and GM Enterprise Products, Symantec.
“The old way of fighting cyber-attacks using fragmented tools has become too complex and expensive to manage. Integrated
platforms are the future. We’re proud to be leading this platform shift with a clear vision and winning portfolio –
along with hundreds of partners and thousands of experts working every day on the front lines to protect our customers.
We are completely convinced that our best defence going forward is an integrated defence.”
New Research Demonstrates the Need for Integrated Platforms
ESG recently published new customer research showcasing how the lack of a cohesive security technology strategy creates real problems for enterprises, leading
customers to seek more integrated platforms and fewer, more strategic vendors. Key findings based on the research
include:
• More than 80 percent of C-level executives said threat detection and response effectiveness is impacted by too
many independent point tools1;
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• 53 percent of organisations have a problematic shortage of cyber security staff and skills2; and
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• 91 percent of enterprises are actively consolidating or considering consolidating the cyber security vendors
with whom they conduct business3.
“Almost two-thirds of large enterprises surveyed use at least 25 different cyber security products. For security
operations centres, managing disparate tools can be ineffective, costly, and time consuming, especially considering the
shortage of cyber security skills,” said Jon Oltsik, senior principal analyst and fellow, ESG. “This explains why CISOs
are looking to consolidate and integrate their security infrastructure with platforms and open architectures that
provide advanced developer support and deliver a partner ecosystem with robust third-party integrations.”
Symantec Integrates Products, Services and Partners
Symantec started building ICD two and a half years ago with its acquisition of Blue Coat Systems, which added
best-of-breed web and cloud security technologies to Symantec’s market-leading endpoint, email and data loss prevention
(DLP) technologies. At the time, Symantec saw and heard that customers were spending enormous time and resources to
integrate point technologies in order to derive real value from their cyber security investments. So, the company
invested in a strategy and roadmap to deliver an integrated platform that significantly reduces cost of operations while
improving the speed and accuracy of prevention, detection and response in order to reduce risk.
Since then, Symantec has:
• Invested significant R effort to integrate its products around key customer pain points – protecting information in SaaS applications;
integrating complementary technologies like cloud access security broker (CASB) and DLP; enhancing endpoint security
with advanced endpoint detection and response (EDR) to protect against targeted attacks; and securing infrastructure
from endpoint to cloud for “Zero Trust” security implementations.
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• Acquired innovative security technologies like Fireglass, Skycure, Appthority, Javelin, and Luminate to address
emerging challenges – and quickly integrated them into the Symantec portfolio.
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• Deepened its services portfolio to provide security leaders with in-depth expertise in global threat
intelligence, advanced threat monitoring, cyber readiness, and incident response.
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• Opened its APIs and launched a Technology Integration Partner Program (TIPP) to do deeper integration work with
key technology players.
ICD Platform Earns Broad Ecosystem Support
Symantec now has more than 120 partners in TIPP, who are building or delivering more than 250 new applications and
services that integrate with Symantec’s ICD Platform, so enterprise customers can reduce the cost and complexity of
their security operations. In addition, Symantec is now launching a new “Innovation Playground” program within TIPP to
simplify integration with startups. The new program will enable startup teams to leverage Symantec APIs and gain access
to products, engineering resources, and customer innovation days.
“In order to reduce security operations complexity and fight today’s increasingly sophisticated adversary, organisations
need products that work as a platform instead of an army of point products working in silos,” said Oliver Friedrichs, VP
of security automation and orchestration at Splunk. “Splunk’s support for the ICD Platform provides our joint customers
with consolidated views across their security infrastructure, including incidents flowing from endpoint, web, network
and email security solutions.”
“At Box, security is a top priority and we are dedicated to providing our customers with powerful controls to protect
their sensitive content,” said Niall Wall, senior vice president of partners at Box. “Symantec is a founding member of
the Box Trust Ecosystem. We are excited about Symantec’s Integrated Cyber Defense and how it will help our mutual
customers reduce risk of data loss, detect advanced threats, and seamlessly bring together our security capabilities.”
“Security analysts today deal with increasingly complex threats, fragmented security tools, and siloed organisations,”
said Rich Telljohann, director of business development at IBM Security. “To combat this we are seeing that the cyber
security landscape is demanding a shift to integrated platforms in order to reduce complexity and cost. We have built an
integration using Symantec ICD Exchange, so the IBM Resilient Incident Response Platform can provide intelligent
orchestration, automation, and enrichment of incidents triggered by Symantec ICD, allowing analysts to respond
intelligently to threats.”
ICD Platform Drives Customer Adoption and Value
As evidenced by Symantec’s recent quarterly earnings, more and more customers are moving beyond individual products to
adopt the ICD platform and portfolio. For example:
• In Europe, a household appliance manufacturer signed an eight-figure deal with Symantec, adopting a substantial
footprint of the ICD platform;
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• In Asia Pacific, a major securities and derivatives trading exchange expanded beyond Symantec endpoint security
to adopt Symantec’s cloud security stack; and
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• In the U.S., a global Fortune 500 power company – originally a single product customer – signed a seven-figure,
multi-product, multi-service deal to build an internal security operations centre.
“The threat landscape we all face is not static and is constantly on the move, as are our customers and employees, so
strategies to deal with that kind of environment are very complex,” said Emily Heath, vice president and chief
information security officer, United Airlines. “Visibility of your environment and integration of solutions are a key
part of that strategy. For example, if one security control catches something, it is much more efficient for us if those
controls are integrated and can communicate seamlessly with each other to help with real time detection. Additionally,
if security providers take the time to integrate across the stack so we don’t have to, that results in an even better
outcome.”
Symantec Extends ICD Platform with New Features & Functions
Symantec is introducing three new technology innovations today that extend ICD for shared intelligence and shared
management across multiple technology components, as well as new “threat aware” data protection capabilities:
•ICD Exchange: A universal data exchange that shares events, intelligence and actions across Symantec and third-party systems,
improving visibility for security teams and security operations centres, so they can take faster action and increase
automation.
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•ICD Manager: Shared management capabilities that will provide customers with unified visibility into threats, policies and
incidents, helping them to reduce incident response times from days to minutes.
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•Data Loss Prevention 15.5: New data loss prevention (DLP) software that integrates with Symantec’s market-leading endpoint protection suite to
help customers stop untrusted apps before they compromise confidential data. This “threat aware” data protection is one
of many breakthroughs made possible due to Symantec’s ICD platform investments.
For more information on ICD, please visit: www.symantec.com/icd.
For more details about TIPP, please visit: https://www.symantec.com/technology-partners.
For more details on how Symantec and partners are leading the shift to Integrated Cyber Defense, please visit: https://www.symantec.com/blogs/feature-stories/united-we-stand
For more details on the cyber security platform shift, please visit:
To see a detailed mapping of Symantec product and partner integrations, please visit: https://www.symantec.com/integration.
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
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