CRN

Symantec To Sell Website Security Business To DigiCert For $950M

Symantec plans to sell its web security and public key infrastructure (PKI) solutions business to DigiCert, a move that CEO Greg Clark said would allow the company to continue its focus on its ...
The Motley Fool

Why Symantec Corporation Paid $4.6 Billion For Blue Coat

Symantec (SYMC 0.49%), the maker of Norton security services, recently agreed to buy security hardware, software, and service provider Blue Coat for $4.65 billion in an all-cash deal. Blue Coat, which ...
ZDNet

Symantec security flaws are "as bad as they get," says researcher

Critical security vulnerabilities have been found within Symantec and Norton products are "as bad as they get," according to security researchers. On Tuesday, Google's bug-hunting Project Zero team ...
Yahoo Finance

Why Symantec split up into two companies

It’s not every day that we get to hear about billion-dollar tech players splitting into pieces. However, lately it seems to be a trend in the tech industry. Ebay Inc. (EBAY) and Hewlett-Packard ...
CRN

Symantec Launches Symantec Ventures, CEO Says Creates New Opportunity For Partners

Symantec has launched a new venture capital arm and startup accelerator, a move that CEO Greg Clark told CRN would help move the needle for security startups and build an ecosystem of innovative ...
Yahoo Finance

Symantec 4.0 strategy aimed to transform the company’s prospects

In January 2013, Symantec (SYMC) announced its initiative, Symantec 4.0, that would be a stepping stone in its transition from a device centric company, which caters to endpoint protection and data ...
The Financial Times

Symantec to buy Blue Coat for $4.65bn

We’ll send you a myFT Daily Digest email rounding up the latest Greg Clark news every morning. Symantec shares were up almost 7 per cent on Monday morning, a day after the company said it would ...
Forbes

Symantec Acquires Encryption Provider PGP For $300 Million

Antivirus giant Symantec is getting serious about encryption. The company announced Thursday that it's buying the encryption-focused firms PGP and Guardian Edge, paying $300 million for PGP and $70 ...
Business Wire

Symantec Acquires Software Defined Perimeter and Zero Trust Innovator Luminate Security to Extend the Power of Integrated Cyber Defense in the Cloud Generation

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Symantec Corp. (NASDAQ: SYMC), the world’s leading cyber security company, today announced the acquisition of Luminate Security, a privately held company with ...
Forbes

Symantec Acquires Boeing's Cybersecurity Unit in a Bid to Boost Big Data Capabilities

Symantec Corp. announced on January 12 that it is taking over 65 engineers and data scientists from Boeing's cybersecurity unit, Narus. Boeing will retain ownership of Narus' licenses and intellectual ...
Business Insider

Symantec Is Chopping Itself Into Two Public Companies

Symantec just announced that it will divide itself into two. This follows news that eBay and HP who are doing the same. One of the companies will take Symantec's security business, which generated ...