More than 120 Partners, Including AWS, Box,
IBM Security, Microsoft, Oracle, ServiceNow and Splunk, Commit to
Symantec’s Integrated Cyber Defense Platform
Symantec Corp. (NASDAQ: SYMC), the world’s leading cyber
security company, today announced that more than 120 companies have
joined forces with Symantec to drive down the cost and complexity
of cyber security, while improving response times to protect
enterprises against sophisticated threats. This includes major
players like AWS, Box, IBM Security, Microsoft, Oracle, ServiceNow
and Splunk, as well as dozens of other technology innovators, who
are now building or delivering more than 250 products and services
that integrate with Symantec’s Integrated Cyber Defense (ICD)
Platform.
This unprecedented industry collaboration reflects a “platform
shift” in the cyber security industry, as new research from
Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG) shows enterprise customers are
looking to consolidate vendors and adopt more integrated platforms
backed by an open ecosystem.
Integrated defense improves security by increasing the speed and
effectiveness, while greatly reducing the resources required. To
make that shift even easier, Symantec also today announced
important innovations – including a new universal data exchange,
shared management capabilities, and upgraded data loss prevention
software that help customers stop untrusted apps before they
compromise confidential data. All are built on Symantec’s ICD
Platform, which provides a unified framework for information
protection, threat protection, identity management and compliance
across endpoints, networks, applications, and clouds.
“There’s a seismic shift happening in cyber security,” said Art
Gilliland, EVP and GM Enterprise Products, Symantec. “The old way
of fighting cyber-attacks using fragmented tools has become too
complex and expensive to manage. Integrated platforms are the
future. We’re proud to be leading this platform shift with a clear
vision and winning portfolio – along with hundreds of partners and
thousands of experts working every day on the front lines to
protect our customers. We are completely convinced that our best
defense going forward is an integrated defense.”
New Research Demonstrates the Need for Integrated
Platforms
ESG recently published new customer research showcasing how the
lack of a cohesive security technology strategy creates real
problems for enterprises, leading customers to seek more integrated
platforms and fewer, more strategic vendors. Key findings based on
the research include:
- More than 80 percent of C-level
executives said threat detection and response effectiveness is
impacted by too many independent point tools1;
- 53 percent of organizations have a
problematic shortage of cyber security staff and skills2; and
- 91 percent of enterprises are actively
consolidating or considering consolidating the cyber security
vendors with whom they conduct business3.
“Almost two-thirds of large enterprises surveyed use at least 25
different cyber security products. For security operations centers,
managing disparate tools can be ineffective, costly, and time
consuming, especially considering the shortage of cyber security
skills,” said Jon Oltsik, senior principal analyst and fellow, ESG.
“This explains why CISOs are looking to consolidate and integrate
their security infrastructure with platforms and open architectures
that provide advanced developer support and deliver a partner
ecosystem with robust third-party integrations.”
Symantec Integrates Products, Services and Partners
Symantec started building ICD two and a half years ago with its
acquisition of Blue Coat Systems, which added best-of-breed web and
cloud security technologies to Symantec’s market-leading endpoint,
email and data loss prevention (DLP) technologies. At the time,
Symantec saw and heard that customers were spending enormous time
and resources to integrate point technologies in order to derive
real value from their cyber security investments. So, the company
invested in a strategy and roadmap to deliver an integrated
platform that significantly reduces cost of operations while
improving the speed and accuracy of prevention, detection and
response in order to reduce risk.
Since then, Symantec has:
- Invested significant R&D effort to
integrate its products around key customer pain points – protecting
information in SaaS applications; integrating complementary
technologies like cloud access security broker (CASB) and DLP;
enhancing endpoint security with advanced endpoint detection and
response (EDR) to protect against targeted attacks; and securing
infrastructure from endpoint to cloud for “Zero Trust” security
implementations.
- Acquired innovative security
technologies like Fireglass, Skycure, Appthority, Javelin, and
Luminate to address emerging challenges – and quickly integrated
them into the Symantec portfolio.
- Deepened its services portfolio to
provide security leaders with in-depth expertise in global threat
intelligence, advanced threat
monitoring, cyber readiness, and
incident response.
- Opened its APIs and launched a
Technology Integration Partner Program (TIPP) to do deeper
integration work with key technology players.
ICD Platform Earns Broad Ecosystem Support
Symantec now has more than 120 partners in TIPP, who are
building or delivering more than 250 new applications and services
that integrate with Symantec’s ICD Platform, so enterprise
customers can reduce the cost and complexity of their security
operations. In addition, Symantec is now launching a new
“Innovation Playground” program within TIPP to simplify integration
with startups. The new program will enable startup teams to
leverage Symantec APIs and gain access to products, engineering
resources, and customer innovation days.
“In order to reduce security operations complexity and fight
today’s increasingly sophisticated adversary, organizations need
products that work as a platform instead of an army of point
products working in silos,” said Oliver Friedrichs, VP of security
automation and orchestration at Splunk. “Splunk’s support for the
ICD Platform provides our joint customers with consolidated views
across their security infrastructure, including incidents flowing
from endpoint, web, network and email security solutions.”
“At Box, security is a top priority and we are dedicated to
providing our customers with powerful
controls to protect their sensitive content,”
said Niall Wall, senior vice president of partners at
Box. “Symantec is a founding member of the Box Trust
Ecosystem. We are excited about Symantec’s Integrated Cyber
Defense and how it will help
our mutual customers reduce risk of data
loss, detect advanced threats, and seamlessly bring
together our security capabilities.”
“Security analysts today deal with increasingly complex threats,
fragmented security tools, and siloed organizations,” said Rich
Telljohann, director of business development at IBM Security. “To
combat this we are seeing that the cyber security landscape is
demanding a shift to integrated platforms in order to reduce
complexity and cost. We have built an integration using
Symantec ICD Exchange, so the IBM Resilient Incident Response
Platform can provide intelligent orchestration, automation, and
enrichment of incidents triggered by Symantec ICD, allowing
analysts to respond intelligently to threats.”
ICD Platform Drives Customer Adoption and Value
As evidenced by Symantec’s recent quarterly earnings, more and
more customers are moving beyond individual products to adopt the
ICD platform and portfolio. For example:
- In Europe, a household appliance
manufacturer signed an eight-figure deal with Symantec, adopting a
substantial footprint of the ICD platform;
- In Asia Pacific, a major securities and
derivatives trading exchange expanded beyond Symantec endpoint
security to adopt Symantec’s cloud security stack; and
- In the U.S., a global Fortune 500 power
company – originally a single product customer – signed a
seven-figure, multi-product, multi-service deal to build an
internal security operations center.
“The threat landscape we all face is not static and is
constantly on the move, as are our customers and employees, so
strategies to deal with that kind of environment are very complex,”
said Emily Heath, vice president and chief information security
officer, United Airlines. “Visibility of your environment and
integration of solutions are a key part of that strategy. For
example, if one security control catches something, it is much more
efficient for us if those controls are integrated and can
communicate seamlessly with each other to help with real time
detection. Additionally, if security providers take the time to
integrate across the stack so we don’t have to, that results in an
even better outcome.”
Symantec Extends ICD Platform with New Features &
Functions
Symantec is introducing three new technology innovations today
that extend ICD for shared intelligence and shared management
across multiple technology components, as well as new “threat
aware” data protection capabilities:
- ICD Exchange: A universal data
exchange that shares events, intelligence and actions across
Symantec and third-party systems, improving visibility for security
teams and security operations centers, so they can take faster
action and increase automation.
- ICD Manager: Shared management
capabilities that will provide customers with unified visibility
into threats, policies and incidents, helping them to reduce
incident response times from days to minutes.
- Data Loss Prevention 15.5: New
data loss prevention (DLP) software that integrates with Symantec’s
market-leading endpoint protection suite to help customers stop
untrusted apps before they compromise confidential data. This
“threat aware” data protection is one of many breakthroughs made
possible due to Symantec’s ICD platform investments.
For more information on ICD, please visit:
www.symantec.com/icd.
For more details about TIPP, please visit:
https://www.symantec.com/technology-partners.
For more details on how Symantec and partners are leading the
shift to Integrated Cyber Defense, please visit:
https://www.symantec.com/blogs/feature-stories/united-we-stand
For more details on the cyber security platform shift, please
visit:
https://www.symantec.com/blogs/feature-stories/cyber-security-platform-shift-more-secure-less-complex
To see a detailed mapping of Symantec product and partner
integrations, please visit:
https://www.symantec.com/integration.
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 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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1 Source: ESG Research, Threat Detection and Response Survey,
December 2018.
2 Source: ESG Research Report, 2019 Technology Spending
Intentions Survey, February 2019.
3 Source: ESG Master Survey Results, Cybersecurity Landscape:
The Evolution of Enterprise-class Vendors and Platforms, October
2018.
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