Symantec announces strategy change

Symantec's UK managing director, Aled Miles, set out his company's vision of the future in London today.

In an effort to offer depth rather than breadth of expertise, the security specialist is focussing on content security technologies alone. These include email scanning, anti-virus tools, URL filtering and mobile code protection.

Explaining why the priority is to specialise, Miles said: "IT managers don't want end-to-end security solutions anymore. They want focussed expertise in one area only."

The emphasis, he said, is on the security products themselves, supporting customers and integrating them into the network management side which Symantec is well-positioned to do given its close relationship with specialist, Tivoli.