Symantec Powers Consumer Security
with the Microsoft Cloud
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.
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.
Source: Microsoft media announcement