Today Symantec announced that it is acquiring PGP. I certainly hope they treat the Mac PGP client better than they’ve treated some of their other Mac clients. This move brings Symantec squarely into the encryption space. They encrypt full disks (including the boot volume of Mac OS X), portables, file servers, jump drives, Blackberry and PDFs. They have a mature centralized key management solution (after all, all encryptions seems to be key based these days) and even recently added application control to their portfolio, to block malware. Perhaps the last is why Symantec went ahead and picked them up. Or perhaps it’s because they just like buying things at Symantec.…
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A Saturated Cloud Backup Market
It’s not that it all started with Amazon, but they were certainly the ones to mainstream cloud-based storage. Now, there are a variety of services such as Mozy (with CrashPlan) and BackBlaze from some of the smaller, niche players (both of them support the Mac) to Apple (can you say Mobile Me), Microsoft, Amazon (who now supports Windows Server and SQL Server), Google, Symantec, EMC and others for some of the more major players. According to James Staten of Forrester research, the cloud computing bubble will burst in 2010, if not before. At that point, we’re likely to start seeing far more feature rich applications start getting released and one…
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Symantec Continues to Beef Up SaaS Solution Offerings
Symantec has purchased MessageLabs for about $700 Million. This move brings filtered services for spam and web traffic to the Symantec Protection Network, a pseudo-Software as a Service arm of Symantec. You will now be able to filter for spam through Symantec products before it enters your environment and then again once messages are in the environment if you want to go that route, for maximum customizable protection. You can also backup online through the Protection Network and establish remote access services. I guess that theoretically you could just let Symantec do all the work, provided you trust they’ll do a good job with it…
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Mac OS X: Preferred Virus Software?
I prefer ClamXav, easy-to-use, light, with a good detection rate, and detects Win and Mac OS X virus. Others: . avast . iAntiVirus (virus for Mac OS X only) . Intego X5 . Norton . Mcafee . Sophos . CA