Antivirus giant Symantec is getting serious about encryption. The company announced Thursday that it's buying the encryption-focused firms PGP and Guardian Edge, paying $300 million for PGP and $70 ...

Symantec announced two new acquisitions–PGP Corporation for approximately $300 million, and GuardianEdge Technologies for around $70 million. Purchasing these two established encryption providers will ...

RUST, Germany--(BUSINESS WIRE)--World Hosting Days - Symantec Corp. (NASDAQ:SYMC), the global leader in cybersecurity, today announced the worldwide availability of Encryption Everywhere, a website ...

Symantec today placed a $370 million bet that encryption will play a key role in solving enterprises' future security problems. In a single announcement, the security giant said it is acquiring PGP ...

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. –July 19, 2011 – Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced the company has expanded its encryption solution set with the introduction of Symantec PGP Viewer for iOS, which ...

Not long ago, Symantec was going the OEM route for encryption. That all changed in June when the company announced it had closed on the PGP and GuardianEdge acquisitions. This past week, Symantec ...

Symantec Thursday announced plans to acquire PGP Corp. and GuardianEdge Technologies for approximately $370 million, a move that will give Symantec a firm foothold in the encryption technology market.

Symantec's announced acquisitions Thursday of data encryption specialists PGP Corp. and GuardianEdge Technologies have industry watchers wondering which products will stay and go, and how open source ...

"Encryption and privacy is not the same thing," said Nick Savvides, Symantec APAC cybersecurity strategy manager. Encryption is a privacy "enhancing tool", Savvides went on to explain, while privacy ...

Symantec Corp. today announced a new encryption feature for its flagship NetBackup backup and recovery software that takes the CPU-intensive load off of application servers and places the burden onto ...

The move comes after a rash of cases in the past couple years where private data on backup tapes was lost or stolen, said Mike Adams, senior group manager for NetBackup product marketing at Symantec. ...

Symantec Corp., the global leader in cybersecurity, announced the availability of Encryption Everywhere, a website security package available through web hosting providers. Encryption Everywhere lets ...