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SYMANTEC PROTECTS THE DIGITAL WORLD. TRUST. CONFIDENCE. FREEDOM. PROTECTION.

Symantec 2006_Annual_Report

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SYMANTEC PROTECTS THE DIGITAL WORLD.

TRUST.CONFIDENCE.FREEDOM.

PROTECTION.

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PRO

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Our digital infrastructures (whether the servers and PCs of a family business or a vast corporate network), infor-mation (from personal photos to proprietary research data), and interactions (email, instant messaging, fi le sharing, e-commerce, and more) have become both more integral to our lives and more at risk than ever before. Without protection, those risks can rapidly foster doubt, uncertainty, and lack of confi dence in the digital world. With protection, however, we can be sure that our infra-structures, information, and interactions are secure and unfettered.

Protection inspires trust. It instills confi dence. It provides freedom for anyone anywhere to work and play in the connected world. Only one company has the experience and technological expertise to provide this kind of com-prehensive digital protection. That company is Symantec.

Today, everyone lives in a digital world. Our entertain-ment, fi nancial transactions, business activities, and communications are largely comprised of digital data, transported over digital networks, and delivered on digi-tal devices. The benefi ts have been extraordinary — our productivity, effi ciency, comfort, enjoyment, and ability to connect and collaborate with others have increased almost exponentially.

Unfortunately, so have the potential problems.

Once we only worried about a corrupted hard drive or disk error that could turn our PC into a slab of useless metal. As the digital world grew more connected and distributed, we needed to beware of viruses, worms, and malicious hackers — not to mention missed soft-ware patches, neglected backup schedules, policy non-compliance, or other self-infl icted mistakes that could destroy data. Today we still face all of these challenges, as well as insidious emerging threats from sophisticated criminals who use email phishing, spoofi ng, and phony websites to steal money, personal identities, and corporate secrets.

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YOUR INFRASTRUCTURE. YOUR INFORMATION. YOUR INTERACTIONS.

ONLY SYMANTEC PROTECTS THEM ALL.

TECTION

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A PROVENAPPROACHFocusing on our customers

has driven Symantec’s trans-

formation into a broad-based

provider of integrated security

and availability solutions for

consumers, small- and medium-

sized businesses, and large

enterprises.

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RECOGNIZE AND RESPOND TO CUSTOMER NEEDS…

It should be no surprise that Symantec is the worldwide leader in data security and storage management. After all, over the past 24 years we’ve made it our job to recog-nize how the digital universe is changing and to quickly develop solutions to keep our customers ahead of emerg-ing risks. It’s how we’ve evolved from specializing in PC utilities and desktop antivirus technology to pioneering advanced storage management solutions to providing holistic protection for all of our customers’ digital assets and activities.

This focus on our customers has always been one of Symantec’s core values — the others are innovation, trust, and action — and it has driven our transformation into a broad-based provider of integrated data security and availability solutions for consumers, small- and medium-sized businesses, and large enterprises. These core values continue to inform everything we do, from developing new protection technologies to providing unsurpassed customer service to actively pursuing our corporate responsibility initiatives.

…WITH EXACTLY THE RIGHT SOLUTION.

Symantec’s offering is broad, encompassing more than 150 stand-alone and integrated solutions. Our con-sumer line of Norton products includes award-winning desktop security and backup/recovery software. For the corporate market, from small- and medium-sized busi-nesses to large enterprises, we provide network security and policy-compliance technology for all tiers: gateway, server, and client, including mobile devices. We also have leading data, systems, and application availability solutions that optimize backup and recovery, data stor-age, and the management of servers, infrastructure, and applications in heterogeneous environments.

And because we recognized that the growing complexity of large networks would prompt many customers to seek help in designing, implementing, and maintaining the protection of their digital assets, Symantec has created a global services organization that provides customers worldwide with training, consulting, and technical sup-port. We also offer fully outsourced management of our customers’ security and data management needs. As with all Symantec solutions, our goal is to ensure that custom-ers have comprehensive and sustainable protection of all aspects of their digital environments — from infrastruc-ture to information to interactions.

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INFRASTRUCTURE

Whether your infrastructure supports a small- to medium-sized business or a large multinational corporation, you want to ensure that it is up and running whenever you need it to be. Symantec helps make it happen by protecting all layers of your environment against all man-ner of security threats — viruses, spyware, unauthorized access — and by enabling you to monitor all elements of your digital environment, from stand-alone PCs and servers to complex data centers, to make sure that they are provisioned, patched, backed up, and running at optimal performance.

We understand that complexity is unavoidable in today’s heterogeneous environments, so we have developed solutions to provide a standardized management soft-ware layer that can support the multiple platforms found in a modern data center. This unifi ed approach allows customers to deploy the most advanced storage, server, and application management tools — for any platform, in any confi guration — and do so more reliably, easily, and affordably.

Infrastructure management has long been considered a necessary, but time-consuming and frustrating task. Symantec protection can transform these critical IT functions from a cost center into a source of competi-tive advantage.

MASTER COMPLEXITY

The digital infrastructure of a modern

corporation has become unimaginably

complex with heterogeneous server

platforms and operating systems, mul-

tiple storage devices, and huge numbers

of applications. In response, Symantec

has developed a uniquely standardized

approach to managing information

infrastructures: a single layer of software

that delivers world-class data protection

and management of all servers, storage

devices, and applications. We are the only

vendor with the breadth of technology to

provide this kind of holistic solution — one

that reduces complexity, lowers opera-

tional costs, and frees IT to once again be

a source of competitive advantage.

475 OF THE GLOBAL 500 COMPANIES USE

SYMANTEC SOLUTIONS

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INFORMATION

Information can be literally priceless. Unlike physical assets and infrastructure, digital data cannot simply be replaced when it is lost or destroyed — and the emo-tional and fi nancial cost to individuals and corporations can be huge. With an estimated 75% of a company’s intellectual property residing in email and messaging sys-tems, managers need advanced message management tools to scan inbound and outbound traffi c, accurately categorize the content according to established policies, and retrieve it — all in a single integrated solution.

Symantec can provide all this and more, including best-of-breed protection against targeted attacks on email and database servers. Our innovative technologies also improve overall data storage and can automatically analyze and evaluate archived information for rapid, cost-effective discovery and retrieval. And our policy-compliance solutions are among the most advanced in the industry, allowing you to defi ne and control your internal policy initiatives, meet external regulatory requirements, monitor activity across all tiers and endpoints, and rapidly remediate defi ciencies.

Information, personal or corporate, is your most valu-able asset. Wherever it resides and however you use it, Symantec can help ensure its security, availability, and integrity.

PLAN AHEAD

The key to effective digital protection is

being able to identify and act on problems

as early as possible, and Symantec has de-

veloped sophisticated tools to see threats

as they emerge around the world. Our

proprietary Global Intelligence Network

monitors email and web traffic through

more than 24,000 network sensors in 180

countries. We track vulnerabilities in

more than 30,000 operating system and

software applications. And we make sure

our customers are armed with regular up-

dates, alerts, and security fixes that allow

them to translate these early warnings

into proactive preparations that maintain

business continuity.

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SYMANTEC SENSORS MONITOR MORETHAN 25% OF THE WORLD’S EMAIL

IDENTITY THEFT COSTS U.S. BUSINESSES

MORE THAN $48 BILLION ANNUALLY

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INTERACTIONS

The digital world is increasingly defi ned by collabora-tion. As the Internet environment has continued to evolve — driven by ubiquitous high-speed connections and sophisticated network architectures — individ-uals and corporations have embraced highly interactive models like etailing, instant messaging, supply chain integration, multiplayer gaming, online banking, wikis, blogs, and more. It’s no longer enough to secure net-work elements and data inside the fi rewall; today the digital interactions themselves need to be protected from attacks, disruptions, and misuse.

In response, Symantec is developing ways for all partici-pants in online interactions — businesses and consumers alike — to verify the identities of other participants. We are partnering with fi nancial institutions and e-commerce companies to create stronger trusted models for online transactions. We are also building tools for real-time pro-tection of personal information or sensitive corporate data while it is in transit.

As this kind of open data sharing becomes increasingly ubiquitous, the boundaries between consumers and providers will continue to blur and disappear, making inter-actions the next great protection challenge. Symantec is committed to meeting that challenge and to maintaining user confi dence in the safety of digital collaboration.

TAKE CONTROL

Protection isn’t static. It’s a proactive

discipline that constantly adjusts to

changing threat environments, new and

updated policies, and the evolving state

of your infrastructure, information, and

interactions. Symantec solutions are

designed to provide this kind of proactive

control of your security and data man-

agement. From our consumer Internet

security suite to our integrated security

appliances for small- and medium-sized

businesses to our Data Center Foundation

technology for large enterprises, we

streamline the underlying technology and

simplify the user interface so that our

customers can readily enforce the appro-

priate protection of their digital assets.

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As one of the largest software companies in the world, Symantec has a truly global perspective on its market and its business. Nearly half of our fi scal 2006 revenue was generated outside the United States. Our nearly 16,000 employees are active in 40 countries on fi ve continents. Our state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Ireland, our Security Operations Centers around the globe, and our extensive network of Internet traffi c sensors make the company an active citizen of the world’s business community.

And as such, we strive to be as engaged and responsible a citizen as possible. Our emphasis on reasonable and ethi-cal action refl ects a strategic commitment to best business practices that motivate employees, strengthen customer relationships, confer competitive advantage, and build long-term company value. Our signing of the U.N. Global Compact, a framework of ten principles that address human rights and labor issues, environmental impacts, and corruption is a clear refl ection of that commitment.

A GLOBAL LEADER IN DIGITAL PROTECTION. AND MORE.

Symantec’s active approach also refl ects how our corpo-rate values align with those of our customers. We are, for example, a leading participant in the effort to develop effective national legislation to protect online consumer privacy. We are also actively involved in Internet safety initiatives, such as the Internet Keep Safe Coalition and National Cyber Security Alliance. We have strong internal programs that promote workplace and supplier diversity and local volunteerism. And we are a member of Sustain-able Silicon Valley, which is committed to reducing energy usage and CO² emissions.

Our commitment to corporate responsibility isn’t just a refl ection of our principles. It’s also a good business prac-tice and competitive differentiator, and we believe it has been — and will continue to be — an important engine of our growth as Symantec strengthens its position as the world’s preeminent provider of digital protection.

4 Symantec SOCs

11 Symantec Support Centers

8 Symantec Security Response Labs

72 Symantec Monitored Countries

40,000 Registered Sensors in 180 Countries

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