Symantec is a company that specializes in antivirus protection for its customers. It is fair to say that they operate on a global scale due to the fact that their customers and employees are located around the world and the threat of destructive viruses is internet wide. The management of an operation like Symantec takes special consideration due to the scope and scale of the product that they offer. Consequently, the management has to be very versatile in its management style. When considering the
2013, p.21). Businesses that use Symantec Endpoint Protection (SEP) will be able to receive a variety of features that have the capabilities of protecting their business. These features include “antivirus/antimalware, a firewall, intrusion prevention component, host integrity checking, USB device control, application control, network access control, and website browsing protection” (Tittel, E. 2015). Unlike businesses running only antivirus software, Symantec offers other features that can stop
Norton vs. McAfee Software Comparison Toby Roberts Dr. Nyachwaya INF220 IS Principles January 19, 2015 Anti-Virus Software Comparison Security software has become very important to help protect personal, small business and large corporations computers. The need to evaluate the capabilities of security software is a must to insure that computers and sensitive information has adequate protection. It has become very common for individuals, small business and large corporations to operate a network
application that provided good enough protection against common computer threats. Defender is now an application that is refurbished to provide virus detection and removal, what is known as “behavior based protection”, and network intrusion prevention (Symantec, 2014). As we can notice, if we sum up all the components that are included in defender they give us all the major components that are include in a full security package.
for the purpose of industrial espionage (Fisher). The information security firm McAfee stated that five multinational natural gas and oil companies were successfully targeted by the Poison Ivy malware, as well as 29 other companies identified by Symantec (Finkle). These organizations lost proprietary information to the attackers, including confidential bidding plans (for the energy companies) and details on manufacturing processes and formulas (for several chemical companies). The malware propagated
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The computer industry’s dependency on new programs and innovative software has led to the protection of intellectual property becoming a topic of fierce debate in the field. In the late 1980’s and early 1990’s, this issue spurred numerous lawsuits, thereby forcing the courts to set precedent and guidelines about how to prove copyright infringement of software. Many of these cases were in regards to copyright infringement of graphic user interfaces, or GUIs; which consist of the visual cues and representations
(Gibson). Operation Aurora was a sequence of high-profiled and persistent hacks targeting technological, financial and defense corporations with valuable and confidential information. Some of the companies targeted were Adobe, Google, Juniper Network, Symantec, Morgan Stanley and Yahoo. The attackers were successful at the heist by manipulating computer codes to exploit windows internet explorer (IE) vulnerabilities, which were later discovered by Google in as earlier as September 2009. In the operation
says someone transferred its passwords to an e-mail account in Russia, where hackers posed as Microsoft employees. Increasingly sophisticated viruses used against Internet sites endanger corporations everywhere. The 1999 Babylonia virus found by Symantec (1999) started its spread through Internet chat rooms. Unlike typical viruses, Babylonia updates itself automatically with files from the Web. Network Security Banning corporate Internet use to avoid problems is impractical. Too many companies
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Over the past few years a debate between Flash and HTML5 has been gaining more attention as HTML5 becomes more developed and polished. Flash has been the web standard for websites since the late 1990’s but HTML5 is quickly gaining ground and is considered by some as the standard of the “future”. Another aspect of the debate is whether or not we should go with open web standards or closed, Flash being the latter. Even though 85% of the most-visited websites run on flash, HTML5 is the future because
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