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It’s a scenario right out of a Hollywood blockbuster. Without a word of warning, medical devices regulating everything from heartbeat to insulin levels across a hospital system begin behaving erratically – creating mass confusion and a potential life-and-death emergency for hundreds of patients. Far-fetched? Perhaps. But far from impossible. The fact that no one has ever attempted to do such a thing is maybe just luck. And that’s the concern as the healthcare industry finds itself today under relentless cyber attack.

If you have a teenager, you’ve probably heard the phrase, “T.M.I.” It’s an acronym for “too much information,” and in my home it’s a signal that I’m supplying way too much information than what’s needed. It is also a major reason why information security is becoming much more difficult for enterprises today. Quite simply, organizations are drowning in the amount of data they collect. And though it’s counter-intuitive, I submit that for better security, less is more.

MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- In today’s connected world, businesses are prime targets for cyber attacks and unintentional missteps can result in critical exposure of consumers’ sensitive personal information. According to the 2018 Norton LifeLock Cyber Safety Insights Report, released today from Norton™ LifeLock™, a Symantec (NASDAQ: SYMC) company, based on an online survey conducted by The Harris Poll of over 1,000 adults, nearly three out of four Americans (72 percent) are more alarmed than ever about their privacy. However, the majority accept certain risks to their online privacy in exchange for convenience (66 percent) and are willing to sell or give away certain personal information, such as their location (55 percent) and internet search history (55 percent), to companies.

Symantec’s best-in-class endpoint security technologies have been added to BT’s broad portfolio of security products and services to help customers battle the rapidly changing threat landscape with a consolidated, intelligent security infrastructure.

“For the second consecutive year, Symantec has achieved the highest protection scores simultaneously in both the business and consumer protection categories -a feat no other company has accomplished,” said Andreas Marx, CEO, AV-TEST. “Symantec Endpoint Protection and Norton Security demonstrated impressive security protection in the 2016 testing series, particularly in comparison to competing solutions. Our rigorous testing resulted in Symantec coming out on top with the most secure solutions for both organizations and consumers.”

Xolphin has broad knowledge and experience in providing SSL encryption and PKI services, from a technical and a customer service standpoint. As an Encryption Everywhere partner, Xolphin will offer a wide range of SSL certificates powered by Symantec, along with a number of premium security packages with increasingly stronger levels of website validation and authentication, protection, and trust seals. This combination enables web hosting companies to integrate basic encryption with every website, along with a large potential of upsell opportunities to bring in new revenue streams without incurring a burden to their infrastructure, sales processes or administration teams.

The Forrester Wave: Data Loss Prevention Suites, Q4 2016 provides security and risk professionals with evaluations of the most significant Data Loss Prevention (DLP) solutions along with an overview of the current market for DLP. To compile the report, Forrester evaluated the strengths and weaknesses of top DLP suite vendors. Symantec was given the highest possible score across 23 criteria categories including intellectual property protection, endpoint visibility and control, productivity, encryption, security portfolio vision and staffing and related resources.

Mobile apps can access and control an ever-increasing amount of personal data and content stored on mobile phones, including photos and videos, health records and financial information. Today, hackers are enhancing their skills and hiding malware inside applications to steal personal information and profit. In fact, since January 2016, Norton by Symantec has identified 6,464,472 new pieces of malware apps and 5,741,834 new pieces of greyware – apps with potential privacy issues or intrusive behaviors.

“Symantec Endpoint Protection 14 is a major leap forward in endpoint protection, delivering the latest innovations in endpoint security on a single platform and from a security company you can trust,” said Mike Fey, president and chief operating officer at Symantec. “Multi-layered protection, enabled by artificial intelligence, backed by the world’s largest and most powerful threat intelligence force, and powered by the cloud – this is literally the smartest choice in endpoint technologies. Symantec Endpoint Protection 14 is an essential element of an integrated cyber defense strategy that enterprises require to combat today’s advanced threats.”

This integration provides the foundation for Symantec’s Integrated Cyber Defense Platform, which allows Symantec products to share threat intelligence and improve security outcomes for customers across all control points. Symantec is the only vendor to connect endpoint, email, and web protection across a single integrated intelligence platform.