Symantec today filed a patent infringement lawsuit against Zscaler, Inc. in the U.S. Federal District Court for the District of Delaware. As we noted in the press release we issued this afternoon, this lawsuit asserts that Zscaler’s products violate seven of Symantec’s patents across a variety of network security technologies including web security, data loss prevention, threat prevention, access control and antivirus techniques.
Symantec has invested over $10 billion in research and development since 2004 in order to provide our customers with innovative technologies, and much of that investment is protected by Symantec’s portfolio of more than 2,000 United States patents.
These technologies are found in solutions that our customers use to safeguard against cyber threats across endpoint, email, web, network and servers. Every day, our vast threat telemetry, when combined with our solutions, protects 175 million consumer and enterprise endpoints, 163 million email users, and 80 million web proxy users, and processes nearly eight billion security requests on the Web. This level of visibility across endpoint, email, and web traffic allows Symantec to discover and block targeted attacks that would be otherwise undetectable from any one control point. The enormous scale and resources required to offer this caliber of cyber defense is unmatched by any other company in the industry. As such, when we see someone attempt to benefit from our assets, we take swift action to stop it. In this instance, our intent is to prevent Zscaler from copying our pioneering technologies in network security.
We owe it to our customers and shareholders to vigorously defend our intellectual property when we believe it has been infringed. We plan to continue investigating this matter and will file further claims if additional infringements are identified.
Scott Taylor
Symantec’s Executive Vice President, General Counsel and Secretary
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