Security Technology and Response (STAR)
Symantec’s Security Technology and Response (STAR) division, which includes Security Response, is a global team of security engineers, virus hunters, threat analysts, and researchers that provides the underlying security technology, content, and support for all Symantec corporate and consumer security products. The group is Symantec’s eyes and ears when it comes to surveying and keeping a finger on the pulse of the Internet security threat landscape.
Symantec Research Labs
Symantec Research Labs (SRL) is Symantec’s global research organization and has played a leading role in developing and commercializing numerous cutting-edge technologies across Symantec’s business areas. Commercialized technologies from the group include industry leading rootkit protection, innovative browser protection technology to proactively block future exploits of known vulnerabilities, Symantec’s first antispam technology, generic exploit blocking technology that proactively blocks fast-spreading threats, online consumer security services, and technology to help protect our nation’s critical power-grid infrastructure. SRL also partners with outside organizations on joint projects, through its university and government research efforts.
Insight and Innovation
Creativity is deeply woven into Symantec’s culture with great technology and business ideas coming from across the company organically and through acquisition. The company holds more than 1200 global patents. Engineers throughout the company pursue advanced projects and work with our engineering centers, research labs and global services teams to translate hands-on experience into new security, storage and systems management technologies. Symantec also plays a leading role in key industry standards and certifications programs. It all contributes to the strong culture of innovation that we believe will continue to drive the company’s growth for the next quarter century and beyond.
Software and Services to Enable Confidence in a Connected World
Symantec’s portfolio of software and services protects completely, in ways that can be managed easily and with controls that can be enforced automatically – enabling confidence wherever information is used or stored. Our market-leading solutions help customers ensure that their information – from digital photos to intellectual property – is secure and well-managed.
Consumer Products
Symantec’s Norton brand of award-winning Consumer Products for individual users, home offices and small businesses focuses on delivering online protection of our customers, their systems and the things they value most – photos, documents, videos, and music – without compromising system performance. Our Norton brand of products and services range from Internet security and backup and recovery solutions to PC tune-up and PC help services that assist our users to resolve their computer problems and allow them to get the most out of their PC.
Security and Compliance
Security and Compliance focuses on providing large, medium and small-sized organizations with solutions for information risk management, endpoint security and management, data loss prevention, and endpoint virtualization. Our security and management solutions ensure that information, infrastructure and processes can be protected, managed and controlled across physical and virtual platforms.
Storage and Availability Management
Storage and Availability Management focuses on providing enterprise customers with storage management and high availability as well as data protection solutions across heterogeneous storage and server platforms.
Symantec.cloud
Symantec.cloud, Symantec’s hosted services, uses the power of cloud computing to secure and manage information stored on endpoints and delivered via email, Web, and instant messaging. Building on the foundation of MessageLabs market leading software-as-a-service (SaaS) offerings and proven Symantec technologies, Symantec.cloud provides essential protection while virtually eliminating the need to manage hardware and software on site.
Symantec Services
Symantec Services offers deep technical knowledge and expert resources including, managed services, hosted and support and education Services. With an expert staff and an extensive partner network, we help customers address information security, availability, storage, and compliance challenges from the endpoint to the data center.
Industry Standards
As an industry leader in providing platform-agnostic software solutions, Symantec is critically dependent on highly functional, open, and interoperable industry standards. These same standards simultaneously ensure that our customers realize maximum vendor selection flexibility, ever increasing security, and streamlined efficiency in managing computing solutions.
Symantec has founded and now leads many industry standards efforts, and most Symantec products are based on standards. A few examples of the standards that Symantec integrates in its products include SCSI, iSCSI, SNMP, Fibre Channel, the HBI-API, Ethernet, and SMI-S.