Symantec ups email armoury

Oct 31, 2005: From its towering position as a security and malware gladiator, Symantec indicated at its recent Vision conference in Sydney that it will soon be taking on the Email lion in the Colosseum.

Quite a task when you consider that email is often a runaway animal, gobbling up storage space as it exponentially increases like a virus. To combat the beast, Symantec has built up an e-mail and security war chest of applications with the help of its recent acquisition of Veritas.

Symantec says its email security and availability solution drives down costs by reducing large volumes of unwanted spam, stopping viruses, automatically managing the lifecycle of older emails through archiving, and by helping to keep customer's email infrastructures resilient against failure.

"To maximise email's value, control its rising costs, and reduce vulnerabilities, IDC believes that organisations need to look at email as an end-to-end process. This holistic approach demands a comprehensive email solution that enhances security and increases availability," says Graham Penn associate vice president for storage, Asia Pacific, IDC. "This requires an information integrity strategy that integrates email security with archiving and policy-driven storage management."

Moving into email security and management is a big step for Symantec, but one that is not out of step with its direction. What the move does indicate however, is if successful Symantec will be able to offer formidable defences against threats across the board.

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