Going the whole hog
Research house Gartner says that security software revenues worldwide were US$7,4bn in 2005, a 14,8% increase over 2004’s $6,4bn.
Gartner predicts a major shift in focus among makers of security software, with the trend moving towards endpoint security suites of products.
Announcing the release of its newest security enterprise platform since it gobbled up software solutions group Veritas almost 18 months ago, US software security maker Symantec says it’s positioned to tap into booming global demand for endpoint security suites.
Symantec Endpoint Protection 11 and Symantec Network Access Control 11, both set to be available in September, are its latest attempts to integrate various security applications into a single software product. Codenamed Project Hamlet, they combine Symantec’s anti-virus, antispyware and device control, plus technologies acquired, such as Veritas’s Raw Disk Scan, Sygate’s firewall technology and the Proactive Threat Scan for intrusion prevention from Whole Security.
George Myers, Symantec director responsible for product management, says from the periphery of its recent partnership forum in Las Vegas that the need to preserve and protect data had become business critical. “The motive for designing malicious software has become financial. It means that we also have to improve our products to eliminate that threat.”
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