Antivirus giant Symantec has bought an application management company in a bid to boost its sales of compliance offerings. In a statement, Kris Hagerman, a senior vice president for Symantec, said: "The application and server environment in most...
Handling compliance and risk have become inescapable elements of the modern CIO's role as they strive to ensure the business can forge ahead while not exposing areas of weakness or potential liability.
Jeffrey Hoo, services and management systems field director at Symantec's regional product marketing division, noted that companies which are affected by the SOX Act already have processes in place and are working toward their compliance deadlines.
Typically, the software identifies the users of a system and controls their access to resources within that system by associating rights and restrictions with a particular identity. Looking for further expansion, Symantec is considering delving...
Meanwhile IT companies with a focus on security - such as CA, IBM and Symantec - are responding to the risk management question. It is only quite recently that such thinking has broadened across the wider majority of sectors, aided and abetted by...
Two other features also are similarly restricted: the document protection technology Windows Rights Management Services (RMS), and Excel List, a feature for improving analysis of data lists. For more than a year, Microsoft has touted Office 2003's...