Mobile available and secure

A company's success revolves around information technology, whether directly or indirectly related to business process, their revenue stream, and their survival is now entirely dependent on their own business data information and the security of that information.

In order to remain competitive, organisations need to scale to dominate their business sector, create new leading edge products and services, as well as find new and innovative routes to market. Organisations need to be flexible in order to ride a shift in business climate, adapt to a competitive threat or embrace new technologies and then exploit them to remain ahead of the closest competition. This flexibility is indicative of today's mobile business community.

Data, information and the means to act upon, the ability to protect and ensure the security of that information remains one of the most significant business issues. Managing information is much more than simply putting another storage device on another server and making sure it is protected from viruses. Instead of treating IT as a by-product of the business, organisations need to think carefully about how to protect their IT infrastructure, as well as access, and share data, ensure its availability to current and future applications and protected against malicious threats in order to provide a robust manageable and resilient infrastructure that really adds value to the business.

Mobile working, business travel, and 24x7 operations all add to the complexity of managing and securing the enterprise's end-point and companies need to be able to evaluate their assets and security systems, assess current procedures against risks, and set goals and policies for desired levels of availability and security, as well as identify and analyse threats and create a plan to meet them. By deploying proactive safeguards against potential threats, organisations are able to protect assets and recover from disruptions quickly. By proactively managing threats quickly and implementing long-term solutions for vulnerabilities, including regularly updated policies and new certification standards for compliance, organisations can monitor its security, information management, and storage systems to provide a clear view of the entire infrastructure and allow a rapid response to any disruption.

Individuals and enterprises rely on the global distribution and storage of information to govern nations, conduct business transactions, and make personal decisions. Yet, the information we count on is increasingly at risk. Cyber threats, natural disasters, user errors, and system failures put the security and availability of crucial information assets in jeopardy. Individuals and organisations are looking for a partner who can help them understand and manage the risks to information - whether it is protecting personal information on a PC or building a global IT infrastructure that is both resilient and flexible.

With innovative technology solutions and services, Symantec helps organisations protect and manage their digital assets, providing a wide range of solutions including enterprise and consumer security, data management, application and infrastructure management, security management, storage and service management, and response and managed security services. Symantec is the world leader in providing solutions to help individuals and enterprises assure the security, availability, and integrity of their information.