Symantec First to Offer Email Security and Availability Solution; Symantec Addresses Critical Corporate Risks by Keeping Messaging Systems Running, Protected and Compliant

Symantec Corp. (NASDAQ:SYMC) today announced its EmailSecurity and Availability solution, establishing Symantec as the onlycompany addressing the full range of business and IT needs aroundkeeping messaging systems and data secure and readily available.Symantec Email Security and Availability provides industry-leadingproducts and services designed to drive down customer costs byreducing large volumes of unwanted spam, stopping viruses,automatically managing the lifecycle of older emails througharchiving, and by helping to keep customer's email infrastructuresresilient against failure.

"Symantec is determined to ensure its customers achieve higherlevels of security and availability around critical informationsystems, including email, as it has become the primary form ofbusiness communication," said John Schwarz, president, Symantec Corp."Symantec will continue to provide customers with the comprehensivelayers of protection and response needed to minimize the risk offailure, as well as give customers the confidence that shoulddisruption occur, systems can be restored rapidly and securely."

Email Security and Availability from Symantec helps customers meetinternal business and external regulatory requirements for themanagement of corporate data stored in email. Organizations acrossnumerous industries, such as financial services, health care andgovernment, are under increasing pressure to demonstrate activeretention and supervision of their email traffic. Symantec EmailSecurity and Availability ensures email systems are secure and allowscompanies to get a better handle on email management to reduce thecosts involved in legal discovery of email and control informationbeing sent internally and externally.

"To maximize email's value, control its rising costs, and reducevulnerabilities, IDC believes that organizations need to look at emailas an end-to-end process. This holistic approach demands acomprehensive email solution that enhances security and increasesavailability," says Chris Christiansen, vice president of securityproducts and services, IDC. "This requires an information integritystrategy that integrates email security with archiving andpolicy-driven storage management."

Symantec Helps Customers Protect and Secure Critical EmailCommunications

Direct Media, Inc., a Greenwich, Connecticut-based diversifieddirect marketing services company, uses both Symantec Mail Securityand Enterprise Vault to protect and manage its rapidly growing emailstores and avoid unnecessary storage hardware expenditures. DirectMedia's email stores contain critical information on client'smarketing campaigns, and this historical data is often used toformulate future campaigns.

"Email is one of Direct Media's most critical applications becauseit is the way we communicate with our clients. Symantec protects ouremail system against corruption due to viruses and helps ensure theinformation we store is free of malicious content," says Kevin Ladd,director of infrastructure, Direct Media, Inc. "Symantec helps DirectMedia save both time and money by reducing the amount of infected andunwanted emails we receive, and by helping us migrate older emailinformation to less expensive storage."

Symantec Helps Customers with Exchange Migration

Symantec Email Security and Availability also significantlyreduces the cost and time of migrating to newer versions of MicrosoftExchange. Because enterprises use email as a primary communicationsand document sharing and management tool, any problems encounteredduring the process of migrating from Exchange 5.5 to Exchange 2003could result in the loss of critical business records. Email Securityand Availability ensures data security and protection while reducingthe time and cost of migration. Recovery takes minutes instead ofhours with no downtime.

"Symantec and Microsoft have worked together for many years tohelp customers secure their messaging and collaboration systems," saidDan'l Lewin, corporate vice president, developer and platformevangelism group, Microsoft. "The Symantec email security andavailability products that are built on the Microsoft platform aredesigned to help Microsoft Exchange Server 5.5 customers upgrade toExchange Server 2003, offering our mutual customers enhanced dataprotection and accessibility."

Symantec Email Security and Availability offers customers acomprehensive, best-of-breed solution to ensure the security of emailinformation and the availability of their mission critical emailsystem. Gartner has placed Enterprise Vault in the Leaders Quadrant ofits Magic Quadrant for E-mail Active-Archiving, 2005(1) and SymantecMail Security in the Leaders Quadrant of its Magic Quadrant for E-mailSecurity Boundary, 1H05(2). (Magic Quadrant Disclaimer(3))

More information about Email Security and Availability isavailable at http://www.information-integrity.com/default.cfm.

Licensing and Availability

The Symantec Email Security and Availability solution is availablethrough Symantec's network of authorized value-added resellers,distributors and systems integrators. Organizations seeking a reselleror distributor should contact Symantec athttps://partnernet.symantec.com/internet/locator/Locator01.asp.

About Symantec

Symantec is the world leader in providing solutions to helpindividuals and enterprises assure the security, availability, andintegrity of their information. Headquartered in Cupertino, Calif.,Symantec has operations in more than 40 countries. More information isavailable at www.symantec.com.

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(1) Magic Quadrant for E-mail Active-Archiving, 2005; CarolynDiCenzo and Kenneth Chin; April 4, 2005

(2) Magic Quadrant for E-mail Security Boundary, 1H05; ArabellaHallawell; July 2005

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