Symantec Arms Companies With More Options to Protect Sensitive Data

Symantec Corp. (NASDAQ: SYMC) today announced Symantec Data Loss Prevention 10, the industry's first open data loss prevention (DLP) platform, giving customers more options to find and fix data loss problems. As organizations strive to center their security strategies around information, DLP becomes essential.

To help customers better protect sensitive data, Symantec's open DLP platform will help organizations effectively leverage content-awareness across security deployments enterprise-wide and take actions that secure data and prevent its loss. Symantec Data Loss Prevention 10 will allow companies to apply encryption and enterprise rights management (ERM) based on content and will integrate with additional Symantec solutions.

Apply Encryption and ERM Based on Content

--  The new FlexResponse feature of Symantec Data Loss Prevention 10 will
help security teams apply policy-based protection to files containing
confidential data, including encryption or ERM.  Until now, integration of
DLP with other IT solutions has required manual processes.

--  By partnering with leading third-party providers, including GigaTrust, Liquid Machines, Oracle and PGP Corporation, Symantec
will offer customers the broadest range of integrated remediation
options.

--  For example, a company that is restricting access to a merger agreement
to a small group of people will easily be able to instruct their DLP policy
to classify data and use Microsoft Active Directory Rights Management
Services (ADRMS) to apply ERM to copies of this content providing granular
protection.

Extend Usage of DLP Intelligence

--  New support for XML and Web Services will enable Symantec Data Loss
Prevention 10 to send rich DLP data to any application or reporting system,
including enterprise security dashboards and compliance solutions, such as
Symantec Control Compliance Suite.

--  For example, an e-commerce site might begin by using DLP to identify
servers with data that falls under PCI DSS regulations.  By sending this
information to Symantec's Control Compliance Suite, the DLP incident data
can be used to prioritize these servers for more frequent auditing to
provide additional scrutiny to places where valuable data is housed.

--  New import/export capabilities will allow organizations to keep
policies current with new regulations as well as collaborate and exchange
policies to share best practices with other users.

Integrate with Additional Symantec Solutions

--  New integration with Symantec Workflow will enable users of Symantec Data Loss
Prevention 10 to trigger policy-based actions such as automatic encryption
and endpoint lock-down by Symantec
Endpoint Encryption, Symantec Endpoint Protection, and other security solutions
from Symantec as well as third-party providers.

--  For example, if an employee is trying to download confidential
information to a USB drive, Symantec Data Loss Prevention can trigger
Symantec Endpoint Protection to disable USB usage through a simple
workflow.

--  Users of software-as-a-service (SaaS) email security solutions, such as
MessageLabs Hosted Email
Encryption (a Symantec Hosted Service), will be able to monitor,
protect and securely deliver confidential information in outbound email
without requiring on-site email gateway infrastructure.

Services, Language & Availability

--  Symantec Data Loss Prevention Services
enable customers to achieve measureable success from DLP deployments and
gain the knowledge and experience needed to continually optimize the
solution over time. By combining industry-leading advisory consulting
services and data loss prevention technologies, Symantec provides customers
with a detailed analysis of their exposure to internal and external data
breaches, and a quantitative assessment of actual data loss across
networks, web applications storage and endpoints.

--  Symantec Data Loss Prevention 10 will have policy and detection support
for 25 languages and will add full product localization for Japanese,
Simplified Chinese and French languages so that native speakers can create
policies, manage and respond to incidents, and perform full system
management.

--  Symantec Data Loss Prevention 10 is expected to be available in
December 2009.

Supporting Quotes

--  "Gaining flexibility in our enterprise security environment is
immensely valuable," said Fabio Recine, senior security engineer,
Computershare.  "We will now be able to seamlessly use Symantec Data Loss
Prevention with other security technologies of our choosing, which allows
us to capitalize on investments already made and extend the usefulness of
each security solution.  It's a case of 1+1=3."

--  "By opening our DLP platform, we give customers more choices and
flexibility to better protect the sensitive information in their unique IT
environments," said Francis deSouza, senior vice president, Enterprise
Security Group, Symantec.  "We're a step closer to realizing the vision of
true information-centric security by extending content-awareness into many
layers of security."

Additional Resources

--  Click to Tweet:
@Symantec opens DLP platform to integrate with more security technologies.
http://bit.ly/32wD4J

--  Press Release: Symantec Partners with GigaTrust, Liquid Machines, Oracle, PGP to Stop
Data Breaches

--  Product Info: Symantec Data Loss Prevention 10

About Business Solutions from Symantec

Symantec helps organizations secure and manage their information-driven world with IT Compliance, discovery and retention management, data loss prevention, and messaging security solutions.

About Symantec

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 Corp.
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Breanne Wagner
Connect Public Relations
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