Symantec News & Articles

This week in the DAM lowdown: printers are providing DAM solutions for clients, Adobe's VP of Enterprise Marketing explains the company's fresh focus, tips on how to leverage your assets to grow your audience and a case study relating one company's quest to find the right DAM solution.

There’s no doubt that predictive coding is the next big thing in e-Discovery. While predictive coding aims to code, organize, and prioritize entire sets of electronically stored information (ESI) according to their relation to discovery responsiveness, privilege and designated issues before and during the legal discovery process, many e-Discovery vendors have been working hard to offer products and service that offer predictive analytical solutions.

This week in the GRC space, IBM released its identity intelligence software, Symantec had a busy week with the acquisition of LiveOffice and its rethink of intelligent information governance, CMSWire’s contributors visited the governance space, particularly around website governance and Qualtrax upgraded to v4.3.

This week we tour DAM systems from Mesopotamia up through modern efforts to give us back control of our digital assets.

Symantec Corp. announced the acquisition of LiveOffice for a cool US$ 115 million. LiveOffice, Symantec’s hosted archiving OEM partner for Enterprise Vault.cloud, will add a cloud-based messaging protection solution to Symantec's information security and management solutions arsenal.

It's been a busy week in the GRC space with StoredIQ extending support to Office 365 and giving visibility across its elements, Symantec reporting that cyber attacks continue to increase, OpenText offering Auto-Classification to Records Management, and Virtual Code Solutions releasing its ShareArchiver solution.

Each year, e-Discovery thought leaders and vendors offer up their predictions for the coming year. Already we’ve seen e-Discovery 2012 according to Daegis. Since then, we’ve talked with a few more in an effort to round out the themes that companies will be facing in the new year.

This week, Symantec secures cloud instant messaging and offers Lync support, CA has upgraded its security services, there’s talk of a Facebook privacy opt-in or out option, BWise releases v 4.1.3 and LexisNexis sells insurance software business.

This week it’s all about security. Symantec has come back from its Vision annual conference where it announced that it intends to spend US$ 1.25 billion on acquisitions and gives the world a chance to see its O3 cloud security offering. Android gets more security, while MS says zero-day attacks are relatively rare. WebLayers beefs up its governance.

On the heels of a Symantec report on e-Discovery and information retention, market trends in the e-Discovery industry are improving after dropping sharply (along with everything else) in 2009, according to a report from IBISWorld.

Last week, Index Engines provided its take on how to best prepare and manage corporate data. The discussion didn’t end there, however. Today, Symantec released its 2011 Information Retention and e-Discovery Survey, which examined the retention policies of the enterprise. The survey reveals that  email is no longer the most commonly requested records companies must produce -- further complicating the way information and the kinds of information are managed. 

We thought this was the perfect opportunity to have Symantec weigh in. We asked Greg Muscarella, senior director of product management for Symantec’s Information Management Group, the same three questions about how to effectively manage your corporate data. 

A new report from Symantec shows that retention policies are still not fully developed within companies, leaving many unprepared to handle increased requests for information.

Even with the Labour Day weekend there have been some notable nuggets in the GRC space. IBM extended the reach of its GRC offerings with the acquisition of Algorithmics, Compliance 360 adds new elements to its GRC offering, Norton updates its anti-malware software with its new 2012 range, while it also gives an estimate of the cost of malware attacks globally every year.

We flagged earlier in the year that Symantec (news, site) would be releasing a new version of Enterprise Vault with social media archiving and more effective data tracking. Symantec has announced the release of Enterprise Vault 10, which comes with these new features and a lot more.

GRC just keeps ticking away. By far the biggest thing this week was the release of this year’s Gartner’s GRC Magic Quadrant, while Symantec finally kept good on its earlier promise and released Enterprise Vault 10. Android security was also under the microscope by Lockout, while Lockpath and Network Frontiers released a badly needed dictionary of compliance. We also looked at process and policy in e-Discovery.