Symantec Positioned in the Leaders Quadrant of the Inaugural Magic Quadrant for Cloud Access Security Brokers
December 04 2017 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
Evaluation Based on Completeness of Vision and
Ability to Execute
Symantec Corp. (NASDAQ: SYMC), the world’s leading cyber
security company, today announced it has been positioned by
Gartner, Inc. in the Leaders quadrant of the inaugural “Magic
Quadrant for Cloud Access Security Brokersi” for its Symantec
CloudSOC platform.
The Gartner Magic Quadrant is the culmination of research in a
specific market and offers a graphical portrayal of vendor
performance, including categories for Leaders, Challengers,
Visionaries, and Niche Players. Criteria by which the vendors are
measured include a company's completeness of vision and ability to
execute. This report focused on Cloud Access Security Brokers
(CASBs) evaluated 11 different vendors and placed Symantec in the
Leaders quadrant.
Geared toward solving the unique security challenges of the
“Cloud Generationii,” Symantec provides organizations visibility,
data security and threat protection for cloud-based services.
Symantec is dedicated to providing users a comprehensive,
platform-centric approach by integrating critical enterprise
security infrastructure, such as Data Loss Prevention (DLP), Secure
Web Gateway (SWG), and Advanced Malware Protection across its
entire product portfolio, including CASB solutions.
“As companies increasingly move business-critical information to
the cloud, it’s crucial that we deliver a holistic and integrated
security solution to protect that information and help
organizations meet data compliance requirements,” said Mike Fey,
president and CCO Symantec. “Our CASB solution brings together our
expertise in data loss prevention and network security to give
CISOs the control and protection their organizations need.”
Symantec’s CloudSOC platform approach to CASB leverages advanced
data science and machine learning to deliver effective and scalable
protection of cloud activity. Key features include discovery of
Shadow IT, data governance and granular controls, encryption and
tokenization, user behavior analytics, malware protection, and
post-incident analysis. More information can be found hereiii.
i Gartner, “Magic Quadrant for Cloud Access Security Brokers,”
Steve Riley, Craig Lawson, 30 November 2017.ii
https://www.symantec.com/solutions/cloud-generationiii
https://www.symantec.com/products/cloud-application-security-cloudsoc
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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
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