REDMOND, Wash., Oct. 16, 2017 /CNW/ -- Microsoft
Corp. on Monday announced that cybersecurity leader Symantec
Corp. is using the Microsoft Azure cloud to help deliver its Norton
consumer products to a global community of more than 50 million
people and families. Azure provides Symantec with a highly
reliable, trusted cloud that offers global scale and cost
efficiencies.
This partnership stems from a Symantec initiative to adopt
hybrid cloud strategies that support its business, protect company
and customer data, and increase operational efficiencies. With this
initiative, Symantec is expecting to not only increase performance,
agility and security, but also reduce its operating expenses. Azure
allows Symantec to innovate quickly, helping protect customers'
digital lives at home and across devices.
"Our focus is helping organizations, governments and people
secure their most important data, wherever it lives," said
Sheila Jordan, Symantec senior vice
president and CIO. "The cloud is key to our strategy to accelerate
innovation internally, streamline operations, and ultimately
protect and empower our customers in the digital age. Microsoft has
been a strong partner and has helped us to painlessly execute our
strategy, far exceeding its commitment to ensure our success."
"Symantec and Microsoft share a commitment to online security,
and it's exciting to work with Sheila and team to harness the power
of the cloud to extend this ongoing effort," said Scott Guthrie, executive vice president of Cloud
and Enterprise at Microsoft. "This demonstrates how Azure is
uniquely able to handle the biggest, most demanding cloud services
in the world."
Working with the Microsoft team, Symantec designed and developed
new cloud services, and migrated 105 critical consumer digital
safety capabilities to Azure, such as reputation scoring, security
telemetry and advanced threat protection. In addition, Symantec set
up real-time dashboards to track and report financial, operational
and security metrics to govern adoption and utilization.
Based on 25 years of experience, the Norton brand continually
evolves its product offerings to help reduce cybercrime. The
service is backed by Symantec's technology innovation and the
world's largest civilian threat intelligence network, which tracks
more than 700,000 global adversaries and records events from 98
million attack sensors worldwide in more than 157 countries and
territories.1
Microsoft continues to work closely with Symantec to ensure the
ongoing success of the initiative. Next, Symantec will bring its
e-commerce system to Azure to streamline how customers purchase
Norton software online. The company also plans to use the Microsoft
Cloud for key internal information technology services, including
Azure Container Services, machine learning and platform as a
service offerings. By deploying these critical applications and
systems on Azure, Symantec can develop, test and deliver new
solutions to its engineering, sales, marketing and operations teams
faster and at lower cost.
Microsoft (Nasdaq "MSFT" @microsoft) is the leading platform and
productivity company for the mobile-first, cloud-first world, and
its mission is to empower every person and every organization on
the planet to achieve more.
1 Internet Security Threat Report, 2017. Page 5.
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