Symantec Named a Leader Among Data Security Portfolios by Independent Research Firm
July 24 2019 - 9:00AM
Business Wire
Information Protection portfolio ranked highest
in current offering category
Symantec Corporation (NASDAQ: SYMC), the world’s leading cyber
security company, today announced that it has been positioned as a
Leader in “The Forrester Wave™: Data Security Portfolio Vendors, Q2
2019,” a new report published by Forrester Research, Inc.
The Q2 2019 Forrester Wave™ report evaluated 13 vendors based on
a comprehensive set of 25 evaluation criteria. Symantec was
recognized as a Leader based on current offering, strategy, and
market presence with the highest overall ranking in the current
offering category.
According to the Forrester report, “Symantec supports a Zero
Trust approach across a broad array of capabilities spanning data,
endpoint, and network security. In data security, strengths include
robust visibility and control via data loss prevention, access
control, and encryption.”
Symantec’s Information Protection products safeguard sensitive
data through secure access and keep employees productive wherever
they work. The Q2 Wave report evaluated Symantec’s portfolio of
products including Data Loss Prevention, CloudSOC™, Encryption,
Information Centric Analytics, Information Centric Tagging, and
VIP.
“The cloud has fundamentally changed the way we work, and with
that comes significant challenges in protecting critical business
information,” said Nico Popp, senior vice president, Information
Protection, Symantec. “Symantec’s Information Protection portfolio
is a holistic, integrated data security platform that goes beyond
what other vendors offer with coverage for all control points on
premises, in the cloud, and Zero Trust access. We believe this is
why we ranked the highest in the current offering category in
Forrester’s report.”
As organizations move toward a Zero Trust security framework,
Symantec’s Integrated Cyber Defense Platform is uniquely positioned
to protect the new business perimeter with strong data security and
governance offerings. Symantec’s holistic, integrated data security
platform delivers broad coverage for control points, ease of
manageability and deployment, superior discovery and inspection,
and comprehensive incident remediation.
More information on Symantec Information Protection products:
https://www.symantec.com/blogs/product-insights/forrester-data-security-portfolio-wave-names-symantec-leader
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 and
LifeLock product suites to help protect their digital lives at home
and across 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
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