Symantec Unveils New Platform for Cloud Security

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Symantec Unveils New Platform for Cloud Security at Vision Conference

BARCELONA, Spain – Symantec Vision 2011 – Symantec Corp., (Nasdaq: SYMC) at its Vision Barcelona event today, provided customers and partners their first look at Symantec O3, a new cloud security platform designed to protect all enterprise cloud applications and cloud infrastructures. Symantec O3 combines access control, information protection and compliance control in a single security solution, allowing enterprise customers to extend their internal security policies to public and private cloud services.

Cloud computing is one of the most significant IT trends. Enterprise adoption of SaaS, public or private clouds promises to drive significant cost and complexity reduction. However, concerns over security, compliance and trust still represent a significant barrier to adoption. These new cloud platforms are not inherently insecure but comprehensive security and compliance solutions for the cloud are still missing.

Symantec O3 will help to fill that void by establishing a new security control point that applies consistent identity and information security across all cloud services. Symantec O3 provides three core security layers. The cloud access control layer leverages an enterprise existing identity infrastructure for authentication while enabling authorisation and federation services. The information security layer builds on Symantec’s leading DLP and PGP encryption technologies to automatically detect, block and encrypt confidential information before it is stored in the cloud. Moreover, by virtue of being in line with all cloud traffic, the Symantec O3 visibility layer aggregates all cloud-related security events, to provide the foundation for a comprehensive cloud audit solution.

According to a recent Symantec survey, 44 percent of CEOs said they were cautious about moving business-critical applications to the cloud, with 76 percent citing security as a main concern.1 Symantec O3 will give businesses the confidence to more rapidly shift enterprise resources to public and private clouds.

Availability
Symantec O3 is now in an early access beta program and is scheduled to be generally available in 2012. For more information, please visit: www.symantec.com/O3

Quotes
• “As organisations work to embrace cloud delivered services, they struggle to balance the potential upside benefits against the many challenges created as their sensitive information flows between an increasing number of solution providers, over networks, through organisations and down to devices outside of their infrastructure. Symantec O3 will provide the visibility, control and protection they need to confidently embrace cloud computing.”
– Art Gilliland, Sr. Vice President, Information Security Group, Symantec Corp.

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Related
• Symantec Vision Barcelona 2011 Press Kit
• SlideShare: Symantec O3
• Symantec O3
• Symantec Cloud Solutions

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About Symantec
Symantec is a global leader in providing security, storage and systems management solutions to help consumers and organisations 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.

Any forward-looking indication of plans for products is preliminary and all future release dates are tentative and are subject to change. Any future release of the product or planned modifications to product capability, functionality, or feature are subject to ongoing evaluation by Symantec, and may or may not be implemented and should not be considered firm commitments by Symantec and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions.

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"2011 Virtualization and Evolution to the Cloud Survey," Symantec, June 13, 2011

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