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hosted solutions include technology that leverages more than 20 spam protection techniques, delivering
antispam effectiveness rates of up to 95% and one of the industry's highest accuracy rates against false
positives, or legitimate email mistakenly categorized as spam.
Compliance
We provide a number of solutions to help customers simplify and sustain compliance with various
government regulations, industry standards, and internal policies. Our compliance solutions provide IT
administrators a consolidated view of IT compliance across multiple mandates, proactive and reliable IT
controls to retain and secure information, and actionable intelligence to provide ongoing compliance. Our
solutions include Symantec Enterprise Security Manager, Symantec BindView
TM
Policy Manager, and
Symantec Sygate
TM
Network Access Control. These solutions help automate the management of deviations
from security configurations and standards. In addition, they help customers lower the cost of compliance
through automated assessment of policies against industry regulations and best practices and they help enforce
IT security policies throughout the enterprise network.
Managed Security Services
Symantec Managed Security Services are designed to allow enterprise IT organizations to cost-effectively
outsource their security management, monitoring, and response needs. Our comprehensive service offerings
leverage the knowledge of Internet security experts to protect the value of an organization's networked assets
and infrastructure. We provide remote monitoring and management of vendor neutral firewall and VPN
solutions; real-time monitoring and analysis of intrusion detection alerts; coordinated event monitoring,
analysis, and management of Symantec security appliances; and integrated global intelligence services from
our early warning solutions.
Data Protection
Our Data Protection segment provides software solutions designed to protect, backup, archive, and
restore data across a broad range of computing environments, from large corporate data centers to remote
groups and PC clients, such as desktop and laptop computers. Approximately 90% of our sales in the Data
Protection segment consist of backup and recovery products. At the gateway and server levels, our products
monitor systems for patterns of misuse and abuse and can warn organizations before systems are misused or
information is stolen.
Email archiving is the fastest growing area in this segment. Our strength in the email archiving market is
driven by robust customer demand for regulatory compliance solutions and technology that helps to better
manage the email and broader messaging environment.
Our primary data protection products are:
Backup Exec
TM
This product is designed for disk-based back-up, delivering relia-
ble, fast, and efficient continuous data protection for Windows
servers. The latest version of Backup Exec, Backup Exec 10d,
eliminates the need for backup windows and introduces the indus-
try's first web-based file retrieval.
Veritas NetBackup
TM
This product provides customers with a heterogeneous backup and
recovery solution that supports all major server and storage plat-
forms in the enterprise, mid-size organizations, workgroups, and
remote offices. NetBackup software helps organizations take ad-
vantage of both tape and disk storage through advances in disk
backups, off-site tape management, and automated server recov-
ery. Symantec recently announced NetBackup PureDisk, a disk-
based backup solution that protects remote office data without the
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