Symantec
Young workers, Web 2.0 technologies pose security challenges
Mar. 20, 2008
Symantec survey shows IT, younger and experienced workers have different views on the use of Web 2.0 technologies and corporate security.
Symantec is definitely a company to watch
Apr. 21, 2008
I'm just back from Symantec's ManageFusion event in Las Vegas. You may recall that ManageFusion was started by Altiris, the systems management company acquired by Symantec just about a year ago. Needless to say, the ...
Management+Security, Security+Management
Apr. 24, 2008
Continuing our discussion of support tools from Bomgar last week, let me report on the Altiris ManageFusion user conference in Las Vegas that happened in early April. Almost exactly a year after being acquired by ...
Symantec offers endpoint encryption products
Feb. 29, 2008
Symantec is taking its first step into desktop encryption by rebranding two endpoint security products from GuardianEdge, though the intent is to integrate the encryption capability into Symantec's own flagship desktop ...
Symantec chief talks acquisitions, Cisco's snub and "Project Huggie"
Apr. 14, 2008
Symantec chairman and CEO John Thompson delivered a keynote speech to thousands of security professionals at the RSA Conference 2008 in San Francisco and later talked to Network World senior editor Ellen Messmer about ...
Symantec to buy AppStream
Apr. 10, 2008
Symantec plans to buy AppStream, a seller of software that delivers applications to the corporate desktop on demand.
Symantec, Microsoft resolve spat over storage tech
Apr. 03, 2008
Microsoft and Symantec have asked a U.S. federal court to dismiss a two-year-old lawsuit after the companies settled a dispute over storage technology.
RSA - RSA to kick off next week with Microsoft's 'Stirling'
Apr. 03, 2008
The world's largest security conference will kick off next week in San Francisco with the public unveiling of Microsoft's next-generation of security software, code-named Stirling.
Comcast's compromise and alien abductions
Mar. 28, 2008
Keith and emergency co-host Neal Weinberg (filling in for an ill Jason) talk about the Motorola breakup, Comcast giving in on its BitTorrent traffic shaping, and take bets on who's going to win the Hacker Super Bowl.
Symantec unveils enhancements to it Windows storage management, clustering suites - Network ...
Mar. 27, 2008
Symantec this week unveiled a new version of its Veritas Storage Foundation Suite for Windows and high availability clustered server environments.
Microsoft admits it knew about, but didn't patch, bugs
Mar. 26, 2008
Microsoft's security team Tuesday acknowledged that it knew of bugs in its Jet Database Engine as far back as 2005 but did not patch the problems because it thought it had blocked the obvious attack vector.
Symantec offers Altiris tool to automate IT tasks
Mar. 13, 2008
Symantec on Thursday branched out of its roots in security to offer business process automation software gained through its acquisitions of Altiris and T-Logic that an executive said will streamline common IT department ...
Younger workers and data security
Mar. 13, 2008
Ever had to examine one problem from two completely different viewpoints? I got to do that after speaking to the Mystery Writers of America Southwest chapter in a session called
Six Minutes With .. Gerry Egan, Symantec
Mar. 11, 2008
Gerry Egan of Symantec Research Labs talks about being an in-house incubator for a major enterprise.
Norton AntiVirus Dual Protection for Mac debuts
Mar. 10, 2008
Symantec on Monday introduced Norton AntiVirus Dual Protection for Mac. It costs $69.95 (that price includes a one-year subscription for virus updates).
Storage vendors line up behind Windows Server 2008
Feb. 28, 2008
During Wednesday's launch of Windows Server 2008, storage vendors turned out in full force, including CA, FalconStor Software, Emulex, EMC, Network Appliance and QLogic.
Security vendors rally around NAP
Feb. 28, 2008
Security vendors are clamoring to announce their products' compatibility with Microsoft's network access protection, a key security feature of Windows Server 2008.
Healthcare organizations feeling cyberattacks growing
Feb. 27, 2008
Healthcare organizations feel under increasing attack from the Internet, while security incidents involving insiders and disappearing laptops with sensitive data are piling up. On top of that, there's now the prospect ...
VMware to unveil major partnerships
Feb. 22, 2008
VMware has formed partnerships with Symantec, IBM and other major security vendors to boost protection of computers running on its virtualization software, Reuters reported this week.
3 lessons learned about database management
Feb. 15, 2008
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Security appliance spells success for The Washington Post Co.
Feb. 15, 2008
When The Washington Post Co. went looking for a way to add additional security to its Oracle and SQL Server databases, it found that good monitoring tools were few and far between.
Hillary Clinton spam sighted in the wild
Feb. 14, 2008
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Punitive licensing could stall server virtualization: Burton Group
Feb. 11, 2008
Vendor licensing and support policies can make server virtualization more expensive.
Attackers zero in on Yahoo Jukebox ActiveX flaw
Feb. 06, 2008
Just one day after hackers showed how to exploit a number of flaws in the ActiveX software used by Internet Explorer, Symantec has spotted online criminals using one of the attacks.
Review: LANDesk's automation shines in client management review
Feb. 04, 2008
In this Network World Clear Choice Test of client management product we review products for a myriad of traditional desktop management capabilities such as asset inventory, client configuration and software distribution ...
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Symantec profile
Overview
2005 NW200 rank: 36
2004 NW200 rank: 41
Revenue
| Total '05 revenue (in $M) |
|
3618 |
| '04-'05 revenue change |
|
49% |
| '01-'05 CAGR revenue |
|
43% |
Profit
| Profit or loss (in $M) |
|
158 |
| Change from '04 |
|
-70 |
| As percentage of revenue 4 |
|
4 |
| CAGR, '01-'05 |
|
25 |
Employees
| Number of employees |
|
6500 |
| '04 - '05 change |
|
23
|
| Revenue per employee |
|
556615 |
Misc.
| Mkt Cap as of 3/19/05 ($M) |
|
16700 |
| Cash/investments ($M) |
|
|
| Year inc. |
|
1982 |
| Fiscal year ends |
|
Mar |
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