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Symantec is investing in anti-cybercrime technology by agreeing to purchase LifeLock, an identity-theft-protection company. The deal is worth about $2.3 billion and will create the world’s largest ‘digital safety platform’. Lifelock provides identity theft protection for consumers as well as credit and risk assessments for businesses. It reportedly has 4.4 million customers and annual revenues of...

Symantec is investing in anti-cybercrime technology by agreeing to purchase LifeLock, an identity-theft-protection company. The deal is worth about $2.3 billion and will create the world’s largest ‘digital safety platform’. Lifelock provides identity theft protection for consumers as well as credit and risk assessments for businesses. It reportedly has 4.4 million customers and annual revenues of...

Deal creates biggest ‘digital safety platform’ Aims to deliver comprehensive cyber defence for consumers Symantec is investing in anti-cybercrime technology by agreeing to purchase LifeLock, an identity-theft-protection company. The deal is worth about $2.3 billion and will create the world’s largest ‘digital safety platform’. Lifelock provides identity theft protection for consumers as well as credit...

How secure is your business?  It seems like a simple question, but it can be challenging to answer. The good news is today Symantec has introduced Risk Insight – a new service that makes answering that question much easier.  We understand that there are a variety of factors that make it daunting to determine the...

Author: Ben Nahorney Email malware nearly doubles to one in 85 emails and spam rate rises for third month in a row. Some of the key takeaways from November’s Latest Intelligence, and the threat landscape in general, include an increase in phishing emails, a drop in the number of new malware variants, the return of an...

We’re excited to announce that Symantec has been recognized as a Leader in The Forrester Wave™: Data Loss Prevention Suites, Q4 2016, and was top-ranked across all three high-level categories: Current Offering, Strategy, and Market Presence. What’s most striking to us about this year’s report is how dramatically the DLP vendor landscape has changed in...

Now the General Data Privacy Regulation (GDPR) is agreed, its demands are clear. At the heart is the idea of privacy being a fundamental right. For this to be achieved, it’s organisations must insist on ‘privacy by design,’ ‘privacy by default’ and ‘accountability’. So, although the GDPR is an evolution of the existing privacy framework,...

A recent report by Veritas Technologies LLC estimates that a giant ‘databerg’ of trivial and obsolete data will cost European businesses £576 billion a year by 2020. Last month, the global leader in backup and recovery solutions released its Databerg Report 2015, which examined how European organisations manage their data and found that many are...

“True genius resides in the capacity for evaluation of uncertain, hazardous, and conflicting information.” – Winston Churchill Information can be your greatest ally. But, unknowingly, for most organisations it has become public enemy number one. Exponential information growth comes with a significant price tag and tremendous risk. By 2017, Gartner predicts that 33% of Fortune 100...

Symantec has announced that it is to secure more than one billion ‘Internet of Things’ (IoT) devices, ranging from televisions and cars to smart meters and critical infrastructure. With Gartner predicting that IoT devices are expected to number 25 billion by 2020, Symantec is focused on leading the effort to protect consumers and businesses from...

  Symantec has challenged online retailers to make this year’s holiday shopping season the safest on record. The leading cyber security company has released an enhanced version of its best-in-class encryption tool, Symantec SSL Assistant Plus, just in time to help those who manage e-commerce sites to encrypt and keep their customer data safe when it comes...

Software Security providers, Symantec have agreed a deal to sell Veritas,  their data storage business to Carlyle Group LP in a deal worth between $7-8billion according to Bloomberg. Carlyle Group LP are a private equity firm hoping to cash in on Veritas’ new portfolio of products designed to give customers better visibility of their storage and...