It’s official! After all the high-level planning and meticulous preparation, Symantec has successfully completed its acquisition of Blue Coat. This signals a historic moment: the creation of the industry’s largest pure play cyber security company.
It’s hard to describe just how remarkable an opportunity this is. We are creating a union that will produce one of the most powerful and respected forces in cyber security as we leverage our combined strengths and technological innovations. Greg and Mike have a history of making acquisitions thrive and prosper, and as a management team we now bring that expertise to bear as our two enterprises come together, streamlining and integrating our individual assets to make Symantec stronger than ever before.
The best part of the story? Undoubtedly, it’s our complementary products with very little overlap and the tens of thousands of customers who have put their faith in those products. It’s also our people, passion, and talent they bring to work every day. I continue to be blown away by the amazing technical talent inside this company. Together we will meet the challenges of the cloud generation, particularly around securing the mobile workforce, ensuring safe cloud usage and intelligently protecting enterprises against advanced threats.
Within all the opportunity and excitement, however, one of the areas I most look forward to is continuing to engage closely with the industry analysts who have helped to shape our direction. Symantec will now be taking on its greatest challenge to become the world’s cyber security innovation leader and the most strategic vendor in the industry. To do that, now more than ever, we’ll need the guidance and input of our industry analyst partners: all of you who will be instrumental in helping us make that vision a reality.
To get started on our journey together, please watch the above video featuring Symantec’s new CEO, Greg Clark, where Greg lays out what he sees as our greatest opportunities and initial steps. The second part of this video contains a few more details on our direction and how we plan to get there.
Symantec sees the world of cyber security as one where all the best security technologies and ideas need to openly work together, combining forces to succeed. I encourage all of you to take a look at the video and to let me know your thoughts on how we can continue to work together to make that strategy a winning one.
Best,
Hugh Thompson