Contradictions?
Did I misread that or did he say essentially that they want to be the leader in Security Intelligence (etc... etc.. etc..) but that he's ok with giving up privacy? If you're willing to give up your privacy, then why have security?
Symantec divested Veritas because it never quite convinced anyone that an integrated security and data management company made sense, and its security business has struggled in part because it's not linked its protection products. But the company's new CEO Michael Brown nonetheless thinks that integrating the company's range is …
<< Brown also addressed governments' calls for backdoors into products by saying that “as an open society we have to make tradeoffs” to balance security and privacy. The extent of those balances is, he said, “an open question.” >>
No, it is not an open question. If you have a backdoor you are not secure. There is no balance, it is either-or.
He's just regurgitating the same rubbish as the two previous CEO's said they would do. All three have now failed, products are still as late as ever from promises made at tech conferences and the engineering groups still cannot deliver. As far as a "new strategy" good fucking luck with that Mikey! The company should be sold off to the scrap heap of computing that it deserves.