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Saturday, October 23, 2010

Symantec Unveils Mobile Security and Management Strategy

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With smartphones getting cheaper, more affordable and more popular among users regardless whether they’re tech-savvy or not, it’s only a matter of time before everyone start using their personal mobile devices - including slates like RIM Playbook and Apple iPad - to do everything from their personal life to accessing private and confidential information in the companies they work for. Security for these devices is getting increasingly important and seeing that, Symantec has just announced a major update to its mobile security and management strategy – provide mobile solutions for consumers, enterprises and even communication service provider to secure and manage any mobile device anytime, anywhere. Previously, Symantec provide support for only Windows Mobile, Symbian and BlackBerry devices but with the growth of Apple’s iPad and iPhone, Symantec’s can now support iOS and even Google Android operating system.

“As the mobile market grows, Symantec’s mission is to secure people and information through identity, protection and context, and our broad approach to mobile security and management is a key extension of protection for all of our customers. By providing mobile security and management for smart devices on various platforms, we’re making it easier for enterprises to allow their employees to use their device of choice without putting corporate data at risk.” – Raymon Goh, Regional Technical Director, Systems Engineering and Customer Advisory Services for Asia South Region, Symantec.

Enterprise Mobile Security and Management

While some companies offer laptops and phones for their employees, there are bound to be a few who would like to use their own personal devices such as an iPad as opposed to a big and bulky laptop, but many enterprises lack the ability to support and extend access to so many different devices. With Symantec’s new offering of enterprise mobile solutions, users are free to choose the devices of their choice be it Apple iOS, Symbian, Android, Windows Mobile, RIM and soon even Windows Phone 7. These solutions allow administrators to centrally define and distribute security policies to devices over-the-air. Symantec’s solutions for enterprise mobile security and management include:

Device Management: Symantec Mobile Management
Device Security: Symantec Endpoint Protection Mobile Edition, Symantec Network Access Control Mobile Edition
Device Encryption: PGP Mobile, PGP Support Package for BlackBerry
Strong Authentication: VeriSign Identity Protection (VIP) Access for Mobile, VeriSign Device Certificate Services

Consumer Mobile Security

When your phone is stolen, there’ll be no way to retrieve it back but the least you can do is lock it and give it a remote wipe so the thief cannot access your private information such as photos, emails, and documents. Symantec’s consumer mobile security, the Norton Everywhere allows you to do just that along with backup. Existing Norton Everywhere include Norton Mobile Seciruty for Android and Norton DNS which is available for any device from the iPad to game consoles and Wi-Fi routers.

Communications Service Providers Mobile Security

Having scams, malwares and such on the network could be hogging the bandwidth and will thus use up more operation costs. Symantec will soon be offering new solutions to allow network providers have better security, better manage policy enforcement and user preference, and increase profitability by boosting customer satisfaction.

“The increased competitiveness of the communications industry has resulted in increased pressure on providers to deliver exceptional customer experience to safeguard their brand and customer base. The challenge for service providers is to protect customer information while allowing for the flexible creation of desired controls that enhance the value of the mobile experiences. We want to give communication service providers confidence that they are securing their customers’ information and implementing costomer preference. Symantec Next Generation Network Protection provides that confidence.” – Raymon Goh, Regional Technical Director, Systems Engineering and Customer Advisory Services for Asia South Region, Symantec.