back to article Symantec's salvation plan is more and better integration. No, really

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 …

  1. Mark 85

    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?

    1. Wade Burchette
      Facepalm

      Re: Contradictions?

      << 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.

      1. Michael H.F. Wilkinson Silver badge
        Coat

        Re: Contradictions?

        Maybe the balance he was talking about his bank balance.

        Sorry, couldn't resist, I'd better be going

  2. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    What an absolute load of cack!!!

    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.

  3. Stevie

    Bah!

    Maybe if Symantec had had the strategic vision to aim for a secure volume* from the get-go?

    * Whatever that might be.

  4. eswan

    Step #1: Sell Veritas.

    Step #2: Checkmark???

    Step #3: Number 1 security company in the world!

  5. Anonymous Coward
    Anonymous Coward

    ???

    In the absence of clues all we can do is keep pulling straws

  6. Adam 1

    > Symantec is built on a lot of acquisitions, and we didn't have a history of making sure the products worked better than they did on their own

    Nailed it. When they purchased that uninstaller business they forgot to check it worked properly with NAV.

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