Symantec shakeup creates fresh opening to shift security strategies
Steve McNamara is Regional Vice President Sales for VMware Carbon Black and a former vice president at Symantec. Information technology is always changing and so is the industry behind it. But recent developments surrounding the fate of one of the world’s most widely relied-upon suppliers of enterprise security products have created a significant “disturbance in the force.” In an odd twist on the perils of vendor lock-in, enterprise CIOs who rely on Symantec enterprise security products have found themselves in lock-out, following the decision late last year by Symantec’s new owner, Broadcom, to abandon support for all but 2,000 of Symantec’s most profitable enterprise security customers. Some reports since then suggest that number is closer to 700 accounts. When Broadcom completed its $10.7 billion acquisition of Symantec Enterprise Security in November of last year, it came with all the fanfare of one tech giant acquiring another in the name of […]
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