(Marketwire Via Acquire Media NewsEdge) THE HAGUE, NETHERLANDS, October 7 / MARKET WIRE/ --

Symantec Vision -- Symantec Corp
(NASDAQ: SYMC) today announced its Information
Risk Management (IRM) strategy and products that help organizations to
secure and manage unstructured information such as email, instant messages
(IM) and files. A new survey of IT leaders shows that unstructured
information is not only a major driver of rising IT storage costs, but also
a root cause of security and business challenges that stem from failure to
manage information risk. Symantec
Information Risk Management enables organizations to protect their
information everywhere, reduce storage costs and automate high cost work
flows.

A Symantec survey of IT managers in September found the following:

-- 85 percent rated protecting business information in motion and at rest
"important" to "extremely important"
-- Half say that their email and SharePoint content is growing at a rate
of more than 30 percent annually
-- 75 percent indicate that reducing the amount of storage for
unstructured information is "important" to "extremely important"
-- Only 15 percent would "bet their paycheck" that they could quickly
produce information required for legal discovery

"Symantec meets both the short and long-term challenges with an approach
that protects unstructured information whenever it flows, wherever it
resides," said Francis deSouza, senior vice president, Information Risk
Management, Symantec. "Our approach drastically cuts the cost of storage,
server and energy consumption as well as simplifies and automates the
process of finding information for business, legal and regulatory
purposes."

With almost 2,000 beds, 540,000 nursing days and more than 7,500 employees,
the University Hospital Group Universitaire Ziekenhuizen (UZ) Leuven is one of the largest
services centers for healthcare in Belgium. Recently IT management worked
with Symantec to simplify management of its information risks caused by the
rapid growth and complexity of email and files.

"Symantec's Information Risk Management solutions are helping us keep
attackers out, keep information in, store it efficiently and find it
easily," said Reinoud Reynders, IT manager at UZ Leuven. "The combination
of Symantec gateway filtering, data loss prevention, intelligent archiving
and self-service discovery technologies will make it easier for us to
leverage the information we want, when we want it, without having to
disrupt our business processes."

As part of its Vision Conference for users in Europe today, Symantec
announced details of the three new products at the core of its Information
Risk Management strategy. Each product set is number one in market share in
its market segment according to Gartner(1) and IDC(2) giving customers
confidence using them.

-- Symantec Brightmail Gateway 8.0 - Formerly Symantec Mail Security, Brightmail
Gateway offers enhanced sender reputation technology and improved
management features to deliver three key value propositions: Comprehensive
inbound protection across email and IM, with effective and accurate antispam and antivirus protection; Outbound control, implementing advanced

content filtering and data loss prevention technologies to help companies
protect sensitive information and implement regulatory compliance; Simple
management and administration with comprehensive reporting and granular
controls.

-- Symantec Data Loss Prevention 9.0 - Symantec broadens coverage of
endpoint events, simplifies endpoint DLP management and enhances its data
discovery capabilities in this new version of Symantec Data Loss
Prevention. With complete
data loss prevention coverage across endpoint, network and storage
systems through a single, unified interface, Symantec Data Loss Prevention
provides customers the ability to discover, monitor and protect
confidential information wherever it is stored or used.

-- Symantec Enterprise Vault 8.0 - Symantec's intelligent archiving platform now helps organizations

reduce the costs of storing unstructured information by more than 60
percent through a combination of advancements to its data de-duplication
and electronic discovery features and through associated energy cost
savings. Enterprise Vault lets organizations store, manage and discover
information enterprise-wide, becoming the primary repository for
unstructured information.

"The combination of these products allows Symantec to deliver a cohesive
strategy to organizations looking to address the challenges of securing and
managing their unstructured information," said Jon Oltsik, senior analyst,
Enterprise Strategy Group. "Symantec Information Risk Management addresses
major drivers of rising IT costs and gets at the root cause of not only
security but business challenges."

Additional details on each of these new products can be found in the Symantec newsroom.

About Symantec

Symantec is a global leader in providing security, storage and systems
management solutions to help businesses and consumers secure and manage
their information. Headquartered in Cupertino, Calif., Symantec has
operations in more than 40 countries. More information is available at
www.symantec.com

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Symantec Corporation or its affiliates in the U.S. and other
countries. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.

Any forward-looking indication of plans for products is preliminary and all
future release dates are tentative and are subject to change. Any future
release of the product or planned modifications to product capability,
functionality or feature are subject to ongoing evaluation by Symantec, and
may or may not be implemented and should not be considered firm commitments
by Symantec and should not be relied upon in making purchasing decisions.

(1) Gartner Dataquest Insight: E-Mail Archiving Software Market, Worldwide,
2008

(2) IDC Market Analysis: Worldwide Email Archiving Applications 2008-2012
Forecast Update and 2007 Vendor Shares

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CONTACT:
Cory Edwards
Symantec Corporation
415-738-2637cory_edwards@symantec.com
Andy Ryan
Connect Public Relations
801-373-7888andyr@connectpr.com

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