Symantec Helps Pyrotek Dramatically Reduce Security Infrastructure Management Costs

Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced that Pyrotek, a global supplier of consumable products and melt-treatment solutions for the aluminum industry, has centralized its security management and standardized its entire infrastructure on a Symantec security platform. By standardizing on Symantec products for all of its security needs, Pyrotek has cut its security administrative costs and managerial time nearly in half. The company is also able to ensure its employees can securely access the company’s business critical information from locations around the globe.

Pyrotek has grown from a $50 million dollar company to a $200 million dollar company over the last five years. Due to the company’s multiple acquisitions and continued expansion, Pyrotek now has 1,500 employees operating in more than 75 locations nationwide. With 65 of these sites being small offices or home offices, it is imperative for the company to have data both secure and accessible from every locale. As Pyrotek began its accelerated growth cycle, the company started looking for ways to standardize on one platform and simplify the security landscape across the entire organization.

“With Pyrotek’s rapid growth, we needed a security infrastructure that would offer visibility into each of our company’s sites and make our main ERP system accessible to the whole organization, no matter where employees reside,” says Michael Bradley, network operations manager, Pyrotek. “With each acquisition we inherit a variety of hardware, software, and security environments. Symantec offered the only all-encompassing security platform that could meet every one of our security needs.”

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