Symantec Celebrates 13th Consecutive Time as a Leader for Managed Security Services, Worldwide in Gartner Magic Quadrant
February 13 2017 - 5:00PM
Business Wire
Evaluation based on Completeness of Vision and
Ability to Execute
Symantec Corp. (NASDAQ: SYMC), the world’s leading cyber
security company, today announced it has been positioned by
Gartner, Inc. in the “Leaders” quadrant of the “Managed Security
Services (MSS), Worldwide Magic Quadrant Report.”1
This is the 13th consecutive time that Symantec has appeared in
the Leaders quadrant. Gartner “defines managed security services
(MSSs) as ‘security event monitoring, or monitoring and management,
of IT security controls and functions delivered remotely via shared
services out of security operations centers (SOCs), not through
on-site personnel.’” The report evaluated 16 different software
vendors on 15 criteria and placed Symantec in the Leaders
quadrant.
“We are honored to be recognized for the 13th time in the
‘Leaders’ Quadrant by Gartner for our end-to-end MSS solution,”
said Mike Fey, president and chief operating officer at Symantec.
“Our recent acquisition of Blue Coat enables us to expand the
security advantage of our SOCs and top security analysts with
leading technology which further expands our threat hunting
solutions, broadens our visibility into cloud risks including gaps
originating from rogue IT users and adds more intelligence to our
behavioral analytics capabilities. With these additional solutions
– including CASB and malware sandboxing/analysis – we are
continuing our mission to provide solutions that meet the
challenges of today’s companies who operate in a hybrid of local
and cloud generation environments.”
The Gartner Magic Quadrant is a graphical portrayal of vendor
performance in a market segment, including categories for leaders,
challengers, visionaries and niche players. Criteria by which the
vendors are measured include a company's completeness of vision and
ability to execute.
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1 Gartner “Magic Quadrant for Managed Security Services,
Worldwide” by Toby Bussa, Kelly M. Kavanagh and Sid Deshpande,
January 26, 2017.
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
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