Symantec CEO John Thompson has hit out at "the myth" that Microsoft's operating system is inherently less secure than the open-source alternatives, which he likened to a "dead-end alley". However, he still had few kind words for the software giant.
He took Axent Technologies public and later sold it to Symantec," MacDermott noted. As part of the merger, John Becker, TruSecure chief executive, will fill the CEO post at Cybertrust. We did not have a permanent CEO [at Betrusted], and John was...
This publication has met both Bloom and Symantec boss John Thompson over the past six months. Much has already been said about the Symantec-Veritas marriage given that it has been telegraphed over the past week.
Symantec's CEO John Thompson is not new to the acquisition game. Since he took the helm of the security software giant, Symantec has snapped up a host of security companies and has looked outside its core market for additional acquisitions.
IT directors struggling to shake a colossal email-related headache have taken to the scare tactics of worse case scenario to claw money from the tight grip of the finance department. According to security giant Symantec, 67 per cent of global email...
Symantec CEO John Thompson has spoken out in support of Macs. In response to a question from the audience at the Future in Review conference in Coronado, California on Monday, Thompson said of Apple's Macintosh computers: "We think more people...