Symantec* Cited as a Leader in Cloud Security Gateways by Independent Research Firm
November 16 2016 - 11:00AM
Business Wire
Symantec Receives Top Score for Current
Offering
Symantec Corp. (NASDAQ:SYMC), the world’s leading cyber security
company, today announced it has been named a “Leader” in the
Forrester Research Inc. report, The Forrester Wave™: Cloud Security
Gateways, Q4 2016.
Integrating Cloud Security Gateways with On-Premise Secure
Web Gateway
The Forrester Wave: Cloud Security Gateways, Q4 2016 provides
security and risk professionals with evaluations of most
significant cloud security gateway (CSG) providers along with an
overview of the current market for CSG. As companies continue to
move their data to the cloud, it is critical that organizations
evaluate and implement necessary solutions to do so safely and
securely. To compile the report, Forrester evaluated the strengths
and weaknesses of top CSG vendors, providing Symantec with the
highest possible score across seven criteria categories including
sanctioned and unsanctioned application (shadow IT) detection, user
activity monitoring, profiling, and threat protection, and future
development and market plans for CSG and technology.
According to the Forrester report, “Symantec integrates CSG with
its on-premises secure web gateway. The solution
supports both proxy-based and API monitoring of cloud platforms
(both AWS and Azure) and cloud applications. It has strong
capabilities for Salesforce and other structured data protection,
including search, sort, and filtering operations, and offers a wide
selection of encryption and decryption policy options. The
solution’s built-in cloud application catalog, support for Office
365, and mobile-device-based encryption lag.”
“In today’s cloud generation era – with the transformation of
traditional enterprise environments to a world where employees are
using a myriad of new applications, services and devices – security
challenges have never been greater,” said Mike Fey, president and
chief operating officer at Symantec. “It is an honor to be named a
‘Leader’ in the Forrester Wave for our innovative Cloud Security
Gateway solution a key pillar of our Integrated Cyber Defense
Platform. I believe that this recognition is a testament to the
innovation of our product – the industry’s first and
only integrated solution that combines best-in-class data
loss prevention (DLP) and cloud access security broker (CASB)
technologies.”
New work patterns driven by mobility and the rapid growth of
cloud applications have dramatically changed the security needs of
enterprises, which are seeking to simultaneously leverage the
opportunities offered by cloud applications and services, while
also maintaining and growing the traditional corporate network. In
addition, they are enabling mobile users and addressing the looming
challenge of the Internet of Things (IoT). These are the challenges
facing the cloud generation, which can only be addressed through
cloud security innovation.
With the integration of Blue Coat’s suite of products, Symantec
believes that its position as a leader is further strengthened. The
company provides a breadth of industry-leading
solutions that allow customers to ensure comprehensive
defense, whether in the cloud or on-premise. In fact, Symantec was
also named a ‘Leader’ in The Forrester Wave™: Data Loss Prevention
Suites, Q4 2016, for its innovative DLP solution, which allows
enterprises to protect data within traditional environments.
The Forrester Wave™: Cloud Security Gateways, Q4 2016 can be
found here.
About Symantec
Symantec Corporation (NASDAQ:SYMC), the world’s leading cyber
security company, helps organizations, governments and people
secure their most important data wherever it lives. Organizations
across the world look to Symantec for strategic, integrated
solutions to defend against sophisticated attacks across endpoints,
cloud and infrastructure. Likewise, a global community of more than
50 million people and families rely on Symantec’s Norton suite of
products for protection at home and across all of their devices.
Symantec operates one of the world’s largest civilian cyber
intelligence networks, allowing it to see and protect against the
most advanced threats. For additional information, please
visit www.symantec.com or connect with us
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*Forrester evaluated Blue Coat in the evaluation, which
was acquired by Symantec
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