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assets by ensuring the true identity of a device, system, or application and use Secure Socket Layers (“SSL”) to
encrypt data in transit. Products include: VeriSign SSL, VeriSign Identity Protection (“VIP”), and VeriSign PKI
Services.
Compliance
Our compliance and risk management solutions allow customers to develop and enforce IT policies, automate
IT risk management processes and demonstrate compliance with industry standards and regulations. Our integrated
and automated suite allows organizations to take a more proactive approach to IT risk and compliance management,
enabling them to understand their key risks, enforce desired policies, efficiently identify gaps, and drive focused
remediation activities to ensure the best outcomes for their organizations. Products include our Control Compliance
Suite.
Systems Management
Our systems management capabilities help IT organizations provide faster and more predictable service to
their businesses. Our integrated solutions ensure that organizations’ management infrastructures can easily support
new technology changes, can quickly adapt to changing processes and business needs, and can provide the
necessary insight to make more intelligent, data-driven decisions. Products include: IT Management Suite, Mobile
Management, and Endpoint Virtualization.
Software-as-a- Service
Our SaaS offerings provide customers the flexibility to manage their business requirements using hosted
services. Symantec.cloud, our SaaS brand, enables customers to increase their messaging and web protection by
blocking email, web and IM threats before they reach the network. Services include: Email Security.cloud, Web
Security.cloud and Symantec Endpoint Protection.cloud.
Storage and Server Management
Our Storage and Server Management segment consists of information management and storage management
solutions. Our offerings enable companies to standardize on a single layer of infrastructure software and work on all
major distributed operating systems and support storage devices, databases, and applications in both physical and
virtual environments.
Information Management
Our Information Management business, which includes backup and archiving, is driven by the rapid growth of
information, data duplication, virtual environments, management inefficiencies, and legal e-discovery needs. We
help SMB and enterprise organizations protect themselves by bringing together archiving, deduplication,
virtualization, and backup functionality into a fully integrated solution. With our solutions, customers can back
up and deduplicate data closer to information sources to reduce storage consumption. In addition, our offerings
archive and enable a compliant and litigation-ready information infrastructure. Products include: NetBackup,
Backup Exec, and Enterprise Vault.
Storage Management and High Availability
Our Storage Management and High Availability business is driven by our customers’ need to reduce overall
storage costs through improved utilization of existing systems, virtualization, and cloud infrastructure offerings.
Our products help customers simplify their data centers by standardizing storage management across their
environment for more efficient and effective use of their existing storage investments. With our solutions,
customers can build scalable, high-performance file-based storage systems onsite or in private and public clouds.
They also enable enterprises to manage large storage environments and ensure the availability of critical
applications across physical and virtual environments. Products include: Storage Foundation, Cluster Server,
AppHA, VirtualStore, and FileStore.
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