Baseline - August 2007

MOBILE SECURITY
Symantec: Expanding Its Reach

BASELINE AUGUST 2007

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SYMANTEC’S MANTRA HAS LONG BEEN devices at Kettering Medical Center “put security wherever there is data.” And Network (KMCN), which manages five as customers extend enterprise mobility hospitals and 51 other medical facili-to more computing devices as well as their ties in the Dayton, Ohio, area. KMCN’s interactions with partners and customers, 5,000 connected devices, including about the company’s reach is expanding. 1,000 laptops and 300 PDAs, are continu-

According to Symantec, more than ously monitored by Symantec Managed one-fourth of all new threats Security Services, which detectedarenetwork-based ^SYMANTEC ^HELPS sends the hospital net-attacks targeting vulner- ^CUSTOMERS ^MEET work’s I. T. staff an e-mail abilities at computing and ^A ^WIDE ^RANGE ^OF whenever it detects sus-data endpoints. ^SECURITY ^NEEDS.picious activity, such as a

Symantec’s acquisition of Veritas in potential unauthorized user.

2005 for $13.5 billion—and other vendors KMCN first turned to Symantec in including Altiris, IMlogic and Sygate 2003. Faced with increased scrutiny on in recent years—has helped the firm the health-care industry with regulations become an even more potent source such as the Health Insurance Portability for optimizing an enterprise mobility and Accountability Act (HIPAA), KMCN strategy, says Gregg Davis, CIO of Webcor conducted a complete network security Builders, a San Mateo, Calif.-based commercial builder. Symantec: At A Glance

“The strength of Symantec’s security products combined with Veritas’ backup products is proving to be a good mix,” Davis says. Product releases subsequent to the acquisition have seen a migration toward a common look and feel, he adds. Although he’d eventually like to see a single comprehensive platform, intermediate steps to create consistency in terminology, screens and the management consoles of the products should be beneficial.

A longtime user of a variety of Symantec and Veritas products and services, Webcor turned to the company to manage and _OPERATING _INCOME, _in _millions_†secure about 500 laptop com-

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Mobile Messaging), which ^$600Menables and encrypts e-mail on

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handheld devices, has brought the builder’s mobile strategy into greater focus, Davis says.

Symantec’s products are also helping to secure the mobile

assessment with Symantec, according to Bob Burritt, the hospital network’s director of technology.

Over the next two years, the hospital network deployed about a dozen different Symantec products and services, including AntiVirus Enterprise Edition and AntiVirus for Handhelds for general protection against malicious Internet attacks, Client Security to provide graphical reporting and centralized management, and DeepSight threat management services to track security threats and provide early warning of potential attacks.

“We’ve always put a premium on keeping small issues from escalating into big problems, and for a hospital network, the number-one prevention issue is security,” Burritt says.

Another established customer is Farmers & Merchants Bank. Over the past seven years, the bank, with 20 branches in Los Angeles and Orange County, Calif., has implemented more than a dozen different Symantec security products, including AntiVirus Enterprise Edition and Web Security.

When the bank first began issuing cell phones to employees, the phones were strictly for communications and held no sensitive data, says Robert Graham, the bank’s senior vice president of information systems. But as workers began using PDAs in recent years to carry information such as contact lists, the bank added AntiVirus for Handhelds Corporate Edition.

According to Graham, Symantec’s willingness to let the bank take part in beta testing has allowed it to have an impact on finished products.

“We have vendors, and we have partners,” he says. “Symantec is definitely one of our partners.” —Darrell Dunn

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