Symantec this week plans to announce an integrated e-mail gateway product that represents the beginning of the company’s multiyear strategy for competing in the enterprise messaging security market.

Solution providers have turned to security vendors for the tools to combat productivity draining unsolicited e-mail. Many of those tools only address part of the problem, which has forced solution ...

Symantec Corp. plans to announce on Monday an update to its Mail Security for SMTP product that offers new features for cleaning up after mass mailing worms and identifying trusted mail domains, as ...

Symantec on Monday plans to enter the growing e-mail security-appliance market with its Symantec Mail Security 8000 line. The series consists of three systems: the 8240 and 8260 for network gateways ...

Symantec will pay $695 million for MessageLabs, a security vendor that offers a hosted spam and Web traffic filtering service. MessageLabs offers its services as a monthly subscription. The filtering ...

Calling this new tact Security 2.0, Symantec will expand beyond its security products to deliver, or partner to deliver, technology that aids with regulatory compliance, the availability of systems ...

The acquisition of antispam vendor Brightmail Inc. by security and utility software vendor Symantec Corp. is being viewed by a sampling of industry analysts and competitors as a good move in the ...

Utility software vendor Symantec Corp. today announced that it’s acquiring antispam vendor Brightmail Inc. in a deal worth about $370 million in cash. In an announcement made today after the financial ...