A roundup of the latest Gartner Peer Insight Customers’ Choices from Backup and Recovery to Business Intelligence and Analytics, and more.

The Norton Core states that it is “Home security. Simplified.” My experience certainly rings true.

Mozilla has delayed its distrust of all Symantec security certificates – because so many businesses have failed to do anything about the problem.

Symantec recently announced innovations and expansions to its cloud security portfolio.

Cybersecurity testing organisations NSS Labs is accusing three major security firms and an industry body of boycotting independent security tests of their products.

The service offloads the burden of real-time network and device monitoring, advanced security analysis and security management.

These routers are used by many organisations and businesses, including internet service providers.

“At the end of the day, two guys and security information and event management solution don't make a security operations center.”

Symantec has opened the doors to its new Security Operations Center (SOC) in Chennai, India.

They join the likes of Palo Alto Networks, OPAQ, Zscaler, and Fortinet in a rapidly expanding security alliance ecosystem.

Riverbed Technology says the appointment of Sean Kopelke couldn't be better timed as he holds many valuable attributes.

A malware called VPNFilter is quickly becoming the security emergency of the year as the number of infections rises & few ways to defend against it.

Asia Pacific will experience a 36% CAGR for botnet detection solutions and services, exceeding growth rates in North America and Europe.

The attacks deliver the Trojan.Kampirs malware and appear to be carefully targeted, with significant planning behind the scenes.

Not only with the companies protect customers, they've also vowed not to help governments who want to go on the cyber offensive.

Results from the survey found that 89% of SMBs have signed up for security solutions to protect against threats.

Cryptomining might just be one of the biggest trends in cybercrime this year, and New Zealand is not immune from its reach.

“Cryptomining is a rising threat to cyber and personal security,” comments Symantec’s chief technology officer – Pacific region, Nick Savvides.

The company says the increase is due to the technology’s multiple advantages compared to software licensing.

23,000 customers of Trustico recently received an email informing them their website security certificates will be rendered useless within 24 hours.

While many organisations recognise phishing as serious, they often struggle to obtain quality information about specific threats.

New Zealanders lost more than $177 million to cybercrime last year but it seems people are not paying enough attention.

Symantec and Microsoft are working together to provide added protection for Azure and Office 365.

Gartner’s 2018 Magic Quadrant for Endpoint Protection Platforms has revealed the latest batch of leaders which include Trend Micro, Sophos, & Symantec