Not long ago, Symantec was going the OEM route for encryption. That all changed in June when the company announced it had closed on the PGP and GuardianEdge acquisitions. This past week, Symantec ...

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Symantec channel partners say that the company's acquisition of PGP and GuardianEdge is a move that comes with the required branding to give their own businesses a competitive edge in the encryption ...

Symantec is hoping to improve its position in the data encryption market with the $370 million acquisition of two privately held security firms. Symantec on Thursday said it planned to buy PGP for ...

Under the terms of the agreement, Symantec will purchase PGP for approximately $300 million in cash, and GuardianEdge for about $70 million in cash. The deal is expected to close some time during June ...

Symantec sees its acquisition of standards-based encryption capabilities from the two firms as a natural extension of its strategy for securing and managing information on any device -- across both ...

Symantec is laying down a strategy for integrating the two encryption-software companies it acquired, PGP Corp. and GuardianEdge Technologies. State IT security pros feeling big budget squeezeThere is ...

Symantec's announced acquisitions Thursday of data encryption specialists PGP Corp. and GuardianEdge Technologies have industry watchers wondering which products will stay and go, and how open source ...

Symantec’s announced acquisitions Thursday of data encryption specialists PGP Corp. and GuardianEdge Technologies have industry watchers wondering which products will stay and go, and how open source ...

Computer security and backup giant Symantec has bought a pair of encryption companies: GuardianEdge, for $70 million, and PGP, for $300 million. GuardianEdge focuses on endpoint protection, offering a ...

More employees are using their iOS devices in the workplace. That’s good from an employee morale standpoint, but not so good when it comes to the possibility of security breaches. Symantec says it ...