Symantec Enterprise Podcasts

A Symantec Security Response podcast featuring a roundup of the top weblog postings from Symantec Security Response engineers in October. This podcast features a summary of weblogs from Jonathan Omansky, Orla Cox, Candid Wueest and Josh Harriman.

Paul Davis Restoration: Paul Davis Restoration, the leading full-service mitigation, restoration, and reconstruction network in the United States, needed an "instant office" that met corporate standards for security and data protection. Symantec Business Partner JDC America provided it, deploying a comprehensive threat management and data protection solution based on Symantec technologies that has delivered zero disruption from security incidents to date, helped speed data recovery by 40%, and eliminated bi-weekly, six-hour commutes to support remote locations. As a result, Paul Davis Restoration is able to focus on maximizing revenue by focusing on its business--not IT issues.

General overview of Mail Security for Microsoft Exchange: key features, competition, and FAQ.

Continuity of operations (COOP) function requires the identification and installation of backup and recovery solutions that are cost-efficient, but also cause a minimum of disruption. Any disruption, whether planned or unplanned, will cause downtime -- the objective is to minimize the downtime and the costs associated with it.

In a disaster, LifeGift Organ Donation Center can turn a tragedy into a life-saving opportunity through the gift of organ donation—but only if the organization can stay resilient and operational. Symantec Platinum Partner CompuCom Systems used Symantec data and system protection solutions to improve LifeGift's key recovery metrics by more than 90 percent—and reduce staff time involved— while saving $140,000 over an alternative disaster recovery plan LifeGift had considered.

Quixtar Inc., a subsidiary of Alticor Inc., sought an application management software tool that would improve transaction processing while improving operational efficiencies. The Quixtar IT team implemented a comprehensive application performance management solution based on Symantec i³ that enabled them to speed up critical applications that drive the company's online business (the 20th ranked e-commerce site in the world). And IT administrators can quickly find--and fix--performance bottlenecks that helps Quixtar deliver optimal services to its large network of Independent Business Operators around the world.

EDS manages over 100 data centers for its customers, using tools from Symantec Corporation to streamline data center administration. One of these tools is Veritas NetBackup PureDisk software. This software centrally and automatically backs up data in a customer's remote offices to disk, eliminating the need to perform tape backup. It also reduces backup demands on the network through an innovative technology. Through its use of Veritas NetBackup PureDisk, EDS is able to protect customer remote office data while reducing remote storage for customers by fourfold and lowering remote office backup costs by 50 percent.

This Podcast examines some of the primary security issues surrounding mobile devices and offers ideas on how enterprises can address them.

David Smith talks with Symantec's Gordon Cooper about the importance of an effective Identity Management Program

Hear John Loomis speak on Corbis' IT challenges.

In today's challenging business environment, change is the only constant. Whether it's seizing a new corporate opportunity, complying with a new regulatory mandate, or ensuring that client devices are up-to-date and properly patched, change defines the very essence of today's enterprise. This Podcast explains how maintaining consistent and optimized clients that comply with corporate standards enables you to manage change in a predictable way.

In this Compliance Briefing, special guest Jim Robinson of Symantec Consulting Services discusses the importance of managing access control and a cornerstone component of a successful Information Security Compliance Program.

Hear Gerald Shields speak on Aflac's IT challenges.

In the premier episode of Compliance Briefing, Host David Smith talks about why the compliance initiatives have moved to the forefront of Information Security programs and how Compliance and Information Security are related as disciplines.

Every CIO and IT executive has lessons to learn from Hurricane Katrina. Disasters come in many forms. Mother Nature is responsible for earthquakes, hurricanes, tsunamis, and blizzards. Other types of disasters are man-made -- viruses, hacker attacks, or terrorist attacks can also completely disable an organization's IT abilities. The risk is that any of these attacks could take down an organization's IT operations, and that can result in lost revenue, a drop in a company's stock price, regulatory penalties, and the loss of customers to competitors.

When executive management does not place value on security or take responsibility for security (as if it were someone else's job), it sends a message to the people at the line level that management does not really care. In response, line-level people often lose interest in security as well.

Symantec announces Symantec Backup Exec 10d for Windows Servers and LiveState Recovery 6.0