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Customer Trust Is An Opportunity With A Huge Payback

Startup Professionals Musings

There are others, like Norton LifeLock , acquired in 2017 by Symantec for $2.3 I see lots of new software put together on a shoestring as a “proof of concept” – but then gets rolled out to customers “asis” due to lack of time or money to “harden” the product. Don’t take shortcuts on these.

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X1 Technologies Updates Software

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Among the updates is a new release of its X1 Profesisonal Client software, and a new versino of its connector to the Symantec Enterprise Vault product. X1 said the new update of its client adds improvements for IBM Lotus Notes and Mozilla Thunderbird; the updated connector provides faster results searching Symantec's archiving product.

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Is the Future of Cybersecurity in M&A?

Xconomy

Last month Symantec announced its plans to buy Blue Coat for $4.7 The bigger public players – Cisco, Check Point, HP, IBM, Symantec, and others – need to continually add to their arsenal of security solutions as the threat landscape continues to evolve. Symantec Forces the Industry to Stay Competitive. Why is this happening?

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How Sekur.me Wants To Use Cell Phones To Fix Abandoned Shopping Carts

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I''ve been involved in custom software and payment processing for a long time. The uninstall was an interesting story--I was working on Norton Desktop at Symantec, and I was in charge of the installation process. I have yet to receive a thank you from Symantec or Microsoft for uninstall, which is now in the public domain.

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Security And Privacy Are Both A Risk and Opportunity

Startup Professionals Musings

There are others, like LifeLock , acquired in 2017 by Symantec for $2.3 I see lots of new software put together on a shoestring as a “proof of concept” – but then gets rolled out to customers “asis” due to lack of time or money to “harden” the product. Don’t take shortcuts on these.

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Here’s A Painful Problem For Aspiring Entrepreneurs

Startup Professionals Musings

There are others, like LifeLock , recently acquired by Symantec for $2.3 A while back, the Target retail chain account database was hacked, with personal data of up to 70 million customers stolen, and this black eye won’t soon go away. billion, now providing identity theft services for more than 4 million consumers in all 50 states.

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New Cybersecurity Alliance Continues Trend of Industry Collaboration

Xconomy

IBM bought Resilient Systems , Cisco Systems snapped up CloudLock , Symantec acquired Blue Coat , and Carbon Black purchased Confer , to name a few. Cyber industry alliances, the thinking goes, could make customers’ cyber defenses stronger and easier to manage. We know our customers are managing multiple solutions and vendors.

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