Symantec Launches Initiative to Help Provide Security and Identity Theft Protection for Foster Youth
March 20 2018 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Pilot Program Launches in Three U.S. Cities
with Nonprofit Partners
Symantec Corp. (NASDAQ: SYMC), the world’s leading cyber
security company, today launched Fostering A Secure Tomorrow
(FAST), an initiative to help foster youth protect and restore
their identities with the support of Norton and LifeLock experts,
solutions and services.
Young people in foster care face a range of unique risks when it
comes to identity protection and cyber security. Before reaching
the age of 18, many foster youths have already become targets for
identity theft and had their credit destroyed.
“Foster youth move often, and more people have access to their
personally identifiable information, which makes them vulnerable to
identity theft,” said Fran Rosch, executive vice president and
general manager, Consumer Business, Symantec. “We are uniquely
equipped, with our Norton and LifeLock consumer solutions and
services, to help these kids, as we are a world-leading cyber
security organization that can provide not only the security
software, but the educational training and restoration services as
well, to help these young people learn to better protect their
information and restore their identities when necessary.”
Symantec has initially partnered with three local nonprofit
organizations—The Bill Wilson Center, Aid to Adoption of Special
Kids (AASK), and Promises2Kids —and with a broader network of
community groups and organizations including the Identity Theft
Resource Center (ITRC) and TechSoup, to reach young people with
critical needs. Symantec experts will offer cyber security
education, access to donated Symantec/Norton software products and
restorative services from LifeLock. In addition to providing
resources and services to young victims through the program’s three
nonprofit partners, Symantec employees will mentor youth, provide
program training and act as advocates on behalf of the program,
working with public officials to build stronger policies that
protect foster children.
“Nationwide, there is an opportunity
to directly educate at least 76,000 foster youths ages 16
and older on ways to prevent identity theft and credit fraud,” said
Eva Velasquez, CEO and president, Identity Theft Resource Center
(ITRC). “We are thrilled to be collaborating with Symantec on
this innovative pilot program and helping them with research to
uncover the latest data around this critical issue. Our goal
is to uncover important findings that will help us all to improve
our approach to how we can better protect the identities of these
foster children and young adults.”
To learn more about Symantec’s FAST program visit:
www.go.symantec.com/FAST.
About Symantec
Symantec Corporation (NASDAQ: SYMC), the world’s leading cyber
security company, helps organizations, governments and people
secure their most important data wherever it lives. Organizations
across the world look to Symantec for strategic, integrated
solutions to defend against sophisticated attacks across endpoints,
cloud and infrastructure. Likewise, a global community of more than
50 million people and families rely on Symantec’s Norton suite of
products for protection at home and across all of their devices.
Symantec operates one of the world’s largest civilian cyber
intelligence networks, allowing it to see and protect against the
most advanced threats. For additional information, please visit
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