European Commission Awards Funding to Symantec,

European Commission Awards Funding to Symantec,

Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced that the European Commission has awarded funding to Symantec, Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft, Nortel, Katholieke Universiteit (K.U.) Leuven, and Tiscali for critical research in phishing prevention. Being singled out for funding by the European Commission’s highly competitive selection process underscores the exceptional research capabilities provided by these organizations.

The goal of the three-year AntiPhish project is to develop antiphishing technologies that help to protect and secure the global email communication infrastructure. With this goal, AntiPhish targets the Information Society Technologies Sixth Framework Programme (FP6) objective aimed at forming scientific, technical, and industrial excellence towards a global dependability and security framework to ensure security, privacy, and trust in complex communication networks and information infrastructures.

“Our AntiPhish consortium is privileged to be part of this important international effort,” said Brian Witten, director of government research in Symantec Research Labs. “The research we undertake will leverage the collaborative capabilities of leading research organizations and be driven by the practical, hands-on experience of industry participants who have expertise with fighting spam on a global scale. This new technology will then move from a test laboratory to implementation at Tiscali, one of the largest and most interconnected Internet service providers in the world.”

“We are very happy to be part of this joint effort,” said Domenico Dato, R&D manager at Tiscali, “The Antiphish research will be among the activities of Tiscali Labs, our research and development hub that was set up for implementing and testing innovative products and services. Being an active part of this project will allow us to provide our customers with state-of-the-art spam and phishing prevention technologies, thus considerably improving their Internet experience.”

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