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Symantec has announced plans to beef up its Cyber Security Services business globally with an investment of more than US$50 million. A portion of this investment has been leveraged to build a new dedicated Security Operations Center (SOC) in Singapore, doubling Symantec’s Cyber Security Services expertise in the Asia-Pacific region. With the launch of the SOC in Singapore, businesses will have access to intelligence, accurate threat detection and proactive notification of emerging threats to ensure their most sensitive data is protected. The new SOC will also enable businesses to shorten the time between detection and response, reduce operational costs and proactively counter emerging threats... Read more

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   As per the latest update, it has been revealed that industry veteran Anand Naik has quit  Symantec . He was Managing Director of Symantec for India & SAARC since April 2012.  Naik joined Symantec in 2006 executing various roles at the company with success starting from pre-sales engineer, Director (west) – technology to Director-technology sales for India and SAARC. Before he joined Symantec, he was head of GSA Team at IBM from 2004 to 2006 before his stint for four years at EITA; Sun MicroSystems.  A spokesperson from Symantec India said,  “Anand Naik, Managing Director, Sales, Symantec in India  has left Symantec on Nov 01, 2013 to pursue entrepreneurial aspirations. We would like to thank Anand for his contributions to Symantec and wish him good luck for the future.” He started his career in 1993 as Service Manager- All India for Bradma of India for three years before he moved to Siemens Nixdor...