symantec in pictures

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  IN PICTURES: ARN Security Breakfast, The Mint, Sydney
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  IN PICTURES: ARN Securing Virtualisation roundtable
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  IN PICTURES: Symantec mobility and security roundtable at Flying Fish
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  IN PICTURES: Symantec Partner Engage 2011, Day 2

• Symantec Australia in legal proceedings with former channels director, Jeff Arndt

  By Rimin Dutt | 18 June, 2013 15:16

  Former Symantec Australia channel director, Jeffrey Arndt, has filed a lawsuit against Symantec Australia alleging unfair dismissal, according to documents filed with the Federal Circuit Court of Australia at Sydney.

• LANDesk appoints APAC and A/NZ leadership

  By Nermin Bajric | 14 June, 2013 15:14

  Endpoint, systems lifecycle and IT service management company, LANDesk Software, has appointed Geoff Masters as Asia-Pacific (APAC) managing director and Susan Lang as Australia and New Zealand (A/NZ) country manager.

• Symantec names winners of the 2013 Pacific Partner Awards (+ 6 photos)

  By Patrick Budmar | 13 June, 2013 16:16

  Symantec's local channel partners were recognised at this year’s Symantec Pacific Partner Awards held at the Park Hyatt in Sydney.

• Average cost per data breach has increased by 23 percent: Symantec

  By Patrick Budmar | 07 June, 2013 12:49

  The average cost per data breach for organisations has increased by 23 percent increase over the previous year, according to a recent study by Symantec.

• Android antivirus products a big flop, researchers say

  By Bob Brown | 06 June, 2013 22:11

  Android smartphones and tablets are under attack, and the most popular tools developed to protect them are easily circumvented, according to new research from Northwestern University and the University of North Carolina.

• CirroScope: Stealthy cloud security startup hatched by ex-Symantec teammates

  By Bob Brown | 05 June, 2013 20:26

  A small team of ex-Symantec security experts has formed a stealthy Silicon Valley start-up called CirroScope that's focused on shielding enterprises from threats stemming from their use of SaaS applications such Box, Salesforce.com and Google Apps.

• IN PICTURES: ARN Security Breakfast, The Mint, Sydney

  By Mike Gee | 04 June, 2013 14:20

  The first ARN Security Breakfast at The Mint was a lively affair with an outstanding panel debate hosted by ARN's Rimin Dutt and featuring Klasie Holtzhausen (Symantec), Glenn Welby (Cisco), Crispin Kerr (Webroot), James Turner (IBRS), and Craig Nielsen (McAfee). Discussion roamed far and wide and included a detailed look at the impact of forthcoming major changes to the privacy laws, the BYOD effect, and the single undeniable truth that every business needs to seriously look at its security and how it can be improved. It's a simple reality that your business could be next to be hacked. Opportunities for the channel were also delivered by the panel to the dozens of resellers who attended. The Security Breakfast was sponsored by Cisco, McAfee, Symantec and Webroot.

• Gartner security survey: McAfee up, Trend Micro down

  By Ellen Messmer | 30 May, 2013 18:37

  A Gartner report about the security software market shows that No. 2 ranked McAfee enjoyed the most overall growth last year, Trend Micro slipped but stayed No. 3, and Symantec held onto its top spot with 19.6 per cent of the $US19.1 billion market.

• PROFILE: From the ground up

  By Julia Talevski | 07 November, 2011 09:39

  Insentra's Ronnie Altit talks about some of the challenges with starting a business and the importance of building trusted relationships with partners

• Symantec: Building on specialisation

  By Patrick Budmar | 29 July, 2011 08:41

  ARN caught up with Symantec Pacific region vice-president and managing director, Craig Scroggie, during Symantec Partner Engage 2011 to talk about the security vendor’s channel strategy, partners specialising and the current security landscape.

• Channel Choice: Vendor Of the Year -Symantec

  By Matthew Sainsbury | 29 November, 2010 15:56

  Symantec has had a busy year. In April, at its partner conference in Senza, China, the vendor outlined a strategy that involved significant changes to its partner program. As yet, we still don’t know all the details of these changes.

• SaaS, not shopping, is focus of Symantec's new CEO

  By Robert McMillan | 26 June, 2009 09:32

  CIOs think of Symantec as a company that buys its way into new markets. Over the past decade the Cupertino, California, vendor has snatched up about 30 companies as it's evolved from an antivirus and tools seller to an aspiring enterprise infrastructure vendor.

• Straight talk on security gets employees to listen -- and comply

  By Stacy Collett | 25 March, 2013 10:17

  Sure, you want users to comply with security edicts, but would you phish your own employees or share your company's hack history? At least some CIOs say yes.

• Applying Big Data approaches to information security a challenge

  By Jaikumar Vijayan | 28 February, 2013 11:10

  Applying Big Data approaches to information security can help enterprises build better situational awareness capabilities, but implementation could prove to be a major challenge, security experts said at the RSA Conference 2013 being held here this week.

• How to talk security so people will listen (and comply!)

  By Stacy Collett | 03 January, 2013 13:04

  Sure you want users to comply with security edicts, but would you phish your own employees or share your company's hack history? At least some CIOs say yes. Insider (registration required)

• Worst security snafus of 2012

  By Ellen Messmer | 10 December, 2012 17:57

  The first half of 2012 was pretty bad - from the embarrassing hack of a conversation between the FBI and Scotland Yard to a plethora of data breaches - and the second half wasn't much better, with events including Symantec's antivirus update mess and periodic attacks from hactivists at Anonymous.

• PDF files most trusted...and most targeted

  By Tony Bradley | 09 March, 2011 06:06

  PDF files are one of the most common, and most trusted document formats out there. However, that trust, combined with the cross-platform use of PDFs makes the Adobe file format one of the most targeted and exploited by malicious attacks as well.

• Free vs. fee: Free, paid antivirus programs

  By Nick Mediati | 30 November, 2010 13:45

  Depending on whom you ask, paying for antivirus software is either a good investment or a total ripoff. In reality, neither viewpoint is accurate. You can find plenty of good reasons to choose a paid antivirus product, and plenty of good reasons to go with a freebie.

• Symantec gets good vibes from virtualized browser

  By Robert McMillan | 15 January, 2009 07:58

  Security vendor Symantec is using new virtual machine technology to protect Web surfers from online attack.

• Symantec: Online underground economy is booming

  By Carol Ko | 11 December, 2008 06:30

  An online underground economy has recently matured into an efficient, global marketplace to trade stolen goods and offer fraud-related services.