24x7 Monitoring and Management of Endpoint Protection Technologies Provides Improved IT Staff Productivity and Unmatched Defense Against Malware

CUPERTINO, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 06/23/09 -- Symantec Corp. (NASDAQ: SYMC) today announced Symantec Managed Endpoint Protection Services, a new set of offerings which provides management and monitoring of endpoint protection technologies to defend users against malware and other sophisticated attacks, such as rootkits, zero-day attacks, and spyware. The new managed services leverage the customers' existing endpoint protection technologies, Symantec security experts, and the Symantec Global Intelligence Network to secure customer, employee, and corporate data, while providing expert management to help IT departments with the configuration, availability and effectiveness of their endpoint protection technologies.

Symantec's March 2009 Managed Security in the Enterprise report highlighted the need for additional protection from cyber threats that are growing in number and intensity and becoming more effective. According to the report, 88 percent of the 1,000 enterprise security practitioners surveyed experienced cyber attacks in the past two years with 30 percent rating these attacks as somewhat or highly effective. Nearly all (97 percent) experienced some sort of loss, including downtime (46 percent), theft of customer or employee personally identifiable information (31 percent) and theft of corporate data (25 percent).

In addition, Symantec's Internet Security Threat Report, Volume XIV, released in April 2009, underscored the significance of threats to the endpoint.