Symantec Acquires PGP Corporation and GuardianEdge Technologies, Inc.
June 8, 2010
Dear Valued Partner,
We are pleased to announce that Symantec has closed on the acquisitions of PGP Corporation and GuardianEdge Technologies, Inc. These acquisitions will enhance Symantec's ability to make data protection more intelligent and policy-driven, enabling control over ownership, usage, encryption, archival and backup -- for a complete data protection solution that customers require today.
Over time, Symantec intends to bring together key features and functionality from each company's offerings and standardize on PGP's key management platform in order to deliver centralized policy and key management capabilities across the entire suite of encryption solutions. Symantec also intends to integrate PGP's key management platform into the Symantec Protection Center, which simplifies security information management by providing customers consolidated access to threat, security and operational dashboards and reporting. Integrating PGP's key management platform into the Symantec Protection Center will further enhance existing integration into endpoint security, data loss prevention and gateway security products. Integrating encryption technologies and PGP's key management platform into the Symantec portfolio will help customers better protect sensitive information regardless of where it is created, used or stored, while providing a consistent key management experience.
PGP and GuardianEdge solutions are ideal for Symantec's worldwide partner distribution network. PGP's customer base crosses enterprise, small and medium business, and individuals. GuardianEdge provides strength in government segments requiring hard disk and removable media encryption. The addition of encryption offerings will help you differentiate your business and provide up-sell and cross-sell opportunities as customers seek to conduct business with fewer vendors.
At Symantec, we value our partners and with the close of these acquisitions our immediate goal is to continue to conduct business as usual with minimal disruption to your business. So for now, please continue to order as you always have from Symantec, PGP and/or GuardianEdge. During the coming months we will be focused on setting a combined roadmap and you can expect to hear more from us as this is finalized and any changes to ordering, support or products are announced. Until then, please continue operating business as usual.
We encourage you to log into PartnerNet to access a Frequently Asked Questions document regarding the acquisitions. Alternatively, please contact your Channel Account Manager.
We look forward to developing a successful working relationship with you.
Yours Sincerely,
Bill Robbins
Executive Vice President, Worldwide Sales
Symantec Corporation