India is undergoing waves of digital transformation. The year saw more and more data being hosted in cloud and the prospect of Digital India and proposed interconnectivity brought application of Internet of Things (IoT) closer home. As systems grow more complex and become more interconnected, it will expose vulnerabilities in the form of information security challenges.
With our scale and our assets, Symantec aims to change the game for cybersecurity with Unified Security strategy. Our crown jewels are data. We see more, analyze more and therefore know more about the threat landscape than anyone else in the industry. Big data analytics haven’t been applied to security in a meaningful way yet and we’ll be the first to do so.
Security is no more a point product play, but an architecture play. Businesses are increasingly adopting modern technologies such as cloud to attain businesses agility and address customer needs better. It has multiplied the network, devices and applications in use. This has made the threat landscape more challenging than ever. Enterprises today desire to work with a partner in the industry who can devise an architecture for them. With the recent acquisition of Blue Coat, we are equipped to create the industry’s largest pure play cyber security company. With addition of an innovative product portfolio and strengthened leadership, we are well positioned to solve the industry’s most difficult challenges of securing a mobile workforce, protecting the cloud and stopping advanced threats.
Symantec helps companies, governments and individuals secure their most important data wherever it lives. We have brought more than a dozen new products to market in 2016 enabling us to grow our enterprise security business. Symantec’s Advanced Threat Protection, surpassed 1.2 million endpoint subscriptions in its first full quarter of availability making it one of the most successful new products in our history.
Symantec has enhanced global leadership position with acquisition of Blue Coat and is committed to deliver comprehensive enterprise cyber defense across critical threat vectors and helps customers securely embrace the cloud. With our increased scale, portfolio and resources, large enterprises can now look to Symantec as a single strategic source for integrated solutions across endpoints, cloud and infrastructure to defend against sophisticated attacks and create a stronger, more cost-efficient security posture. With the companies together, we will have over 385,000 customers worldwide, sharing a mutual commitment to deliver innovation and drive customer success. We feel more confident and our partners are excited to engage as they see new growth opportunity and new profit opportunity to take care of their customers. Additionally, it is also an opportunity for us to provide growth for our partners with a combination of the Symantec and Bluecoat portfolio, thus giving our customers’ a more robust solution."
