Symantec advances mobile productivity with new Android and iOS protection capabilities

FRIDAY, JULY 27, 2012

Building on its success of facilitating mobility initiatives for enterprise customers, Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced significant mobile portfolio updates to enable secure mobile email deployments, mobile application initiatives and Bring Y

The updates include the following products and new capabilities:
- New Symantec Mobile Security for Android is now available, bringing award-winning application analysis and threat detection technology to enterprise Android deployments
-New Symantec Mobile Management for Configuration Manager is now available, marking the complete integration of technology from the Odyssey Software acquisition
- Symantec Mobile Management now provides a secure email solution for Android devices with NitroDesk TouchDown integration
- Symantec Mobile Management now provides native enterprise-grade management for Windows 7 Phone platform, complementing existing support for Android and iOS
- Nukona App Center from Symantec now protects data on iOS devices with FIPS 140-2 certified encryption
- Symantec PGP Viewer for Android now extends email encryption from the popular PGP Universal Server to Android devices

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“As part of the next stage of their BYOD initiatives, companies worldwide are telling us that they’re looking to increase their adoption of Android devices. We are bringing together a comprehensive set of security and management solutions for this leading platform,” said Anil Chakravarthy, senior vice president, Enterprise Security Group, Symantec. “With the recent additions to our portfolio of mobile device management and application/data management products, Symantec is providing a complete platform to enable CIOs to achieve their mobile vision. I am thrilled that so many of our customers worldwide are validating our strategy and portfolio.”