Symantec to release Hamlet this September

Venkatachari Jagannathan
06 June 2007

Chennai: Information technology security major Symantec Corporation will release its new enterprise security software codenamed Hamlet this year. According to chief technology officer Mark F Bregman, new security product has taken into account all the security concerns of the enterprise segment

Interestingly there is an Indian connection to this Hamlet. Outlining that vice president-India Technical Operations Veritas Software India Pvt Ltd Anil Chakravarthy, said, "The data leakage component / module is made at Pune and some of the modules are tested there." Veritas Software is the wholly owned subsidiary of the American company and has a development centre at Pune.

According to him, Veritas is developing security products in India since 1993 for its parent company. The company has around 2200 employees and is the largest site for Symantec outside the US. Nearly 36 per cent of Symantec''s global research and development (R&D) patent are originates from India. "One in eight engineers in our company have contributed towards product innovation."

Recently the company set up a development centre in Chennai with an idea of employing around 1000 people.

Meanwhile Symantec is promoting Security 2.0 concept that encompasses not only the methods to protect the devices (personal computers, servers and others) but also the information and the interactions stored in the computers, servers and other devices. "Security 2.0 looks at the new threats, new protective mechanisms, new delivery methods and also new business models," said Bregman.

According to him, critical corporate information lies in a structured format – in the data base- and in unstructured formats like emails, files. Referring to a study which stated that 75 per cent of all intellectual property is contained in emails and similar percentage of all litigation involves some kind of email discoveries he said that such critical information have to be protected against outside attacks.