Symantec Announces Systems Continuity Service

Symantec Announces Systems Continuity Service

Symantec Corp. (NASDAQ: SYMC), the global leader in information security, announced today the availability of the Symantec Systems Continuity Service (SSCS), designed to help businesses establish and maintain a more resilient IT infrastructure. The Systems Continuity Service includes a thorough audit of a company’s IT infrastructure to identify security, network and storage risks. Consultants then provide a detailed action list and policy recommendations to help a business protect against and rapidly recover from unforeseen system attacks or disasters, help meet industry and regulatory compliance requirements, and maintain continuous availability of systems and information.

“IT security and operations groups must work together to overcome organizational, process and technology problems,” said Mark Nicolett, vice president, Gartner. “The elimination of desktop, server and network vulnerabilities requires a coordinated effort between the IT security and operations groups. An effective vulnerability management program requires defining security configuration policies, evaluating and auditing the environment with respect to those policies, and marshaling resources to fix configuration errors and eliminate their root causes.”

Symantec Systems Continuity Service, delivered by qualified Symantec professional services consultants or certified partners, provides companies with a complete risk assessment of the company’s hardware, software and operating system infrastructure. The service then assesses the company’s readiness to handle security breaches and maintain the availability of systems and data. The assessment provides a detailed software and storage gap analysis indicating the variance between the business’ critical needs and their current environments.

In addition, SSCS delivers documentation of the systems procedures and security policies needed to help meet industry and regulatory compliance requirements. The service also delivers a set of customized best practices to bridge the identified gaps in the company’s security, systems and storage needs. Leveraging Symantec’s expertise in security, systems and storage management, services professionals implementing SSCS recommend software solutions that address the company’s targeted needs as identified in the analysis. The overall outcome of the SSCS for a business are greater IT time and cost savings, as well as identified strategies and software tools required to maintain this increased IT efficiency.

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