When it comes to two companies joining forces, the cliché in corporate synergy is that 1 plus 1 will equal 3 – the whole is greater than the sum of its parts. However, the integration of Blue Coat and Symantec threat intelligence has created an entirely new formula: 1 plus 1 equals 3.2 million.
In October of last year we announced the first results of combining our Blue Coat and Symantec threat intelligence, comprising trillions of rows of security data. After further integration of our combined security telemetry, as well as artificial intelligence and machine learning-based technologies across our portfolio, Symantec products are now blocking an additional 3.2 million attacks every day. A significant portion of this gain comes from the sharing of email telemetry across our offerings, in addition to sharing web and endpoint telemetry. In the past year, we’ve seen a significant increase in the number of attacks launched through email, particularly via malicious URLs. This means that companies need full visibility into both email and web traffic, in addition to endpoints, understand the full picture of the threat landscape.
Additional results from the integration with Blue Coat include Symantec now protecting 163 million email users, 80 million web proxy users, 175 million consumer and enterprise endpoints, and processing nearly eight billion security requests across these products every day. This level of visibility across endpoint, email, and web traffic allows Symantec to discover and block targeted attacks that would otherwise be undetectable from any one control point. What’s more, our combined portfolio 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, which was made possible through the acquisition of Blue Coat. Symantec + Blue = 3.2 Million additional attacks blocked every single day for our customers. It turns out that 1+1 is a lot bigger than 3.