Study Results: This study examines IT Risk, along with technology and process controls used to mitigate it, in a year long study based on in-depth structured interviews with more than 500 IT professionals around the world. Intended for executives with responsibilities for general, financial and IT management, this report covers: IT risk drivers, effective management, process effectiveness, and other issues facing todays IT professionals. >

Despite increasing concern about the considerable growth of corporate e-mail and its associated costs, most businesses have yet to protect themselves against the risks of non-compliance. Rethinking and implementing a solid e-mail retention policy will ultimately save companies money. >

Monthly Report: Download this monthly examination of spam compiled by Symantec Messaging and Web Security. >

Article: This article takes a look at electronic messaging, areas of compliance and security and how the need to manage e-mail and instant messaging to minimize security and legal exposure has joined availability and storage as critical concerns for managing an organization's messaging. >

Webcast: As dependence on IT grows, exposure to IT risks continues to increase. Safeguarding revenue streams and brand reputation requires protecting your organization from security threats, system failures, natural disasters, performance bottlenecks, and compliance violations. A holistic approach to IT Risk Management can yield the best results. Download this webcast to hear Darren Thomson, Symantec Global Services Sr. Director of Solutions Engineering and author of "Delivering Utility Computing" describe a five step process for managing IT risks that can help you: Understand your risk exposure, Identify the optimal balance of costs and risks for your organization and develop a strategy for mitigating risk that leverages established best practices. >

Multimedia Tour: Expertise and resources for managing and IT risk, performance and cost. Learn more about understanding and managing IT Risk. Take the tour! >

Webcast: The Value of Training: How Skill Level Affects IT Function On-demand Webcast. Find out how your organization can make dramatic improvements to your IT team's efficiency and productivity. Download this webcast to hear guest speaker Cushing Anderson, Program Director, Learning, Consulting and Systems Integration Research, discusses various factors impacting IT performance including installed technologies, technical infrastructure, organizational methodologies and IT organizational skill. Download Now! >

Potentially zapping businesses of both resources and money, image spammers are working quickly to devise new variants of spam. At the same time, vendors are creating products to insulate businesses from these insidious threats. >

Whitepaper: Instant messaging worms and viruses are growing exponentially and spreading rapidly due to the real-time nature of IM. Effective IM management policies and procedures help mitigate the risks associated with IM and protect your company's valuable data. Download this whitepaper for a four-phase approach to secure instant messaging. >

Working in tandem with many Microsoft products, archiving solutions such as Symantecs Enterprise Vault can improve mailbox management, optimize storage consumption, and enable faster backups. >

Article: When it comes to data management best practices, taking out insurance or taking the necessary measures and precautions to guarantee the safety of enterprise data is a requirement that tops the list. Thats why its critical that IT managers understand the similarities and differences between backup and archiving. >

Whitepaper: The ubiquity of consumer-grade, public IM clients and the emergence of enterprise IM servers has challenged IT organizations to develop management policies that deal with the corporate IM landscape as it exists today, while planning for the deployment of emerging presence-based technologies tomorrow. Read this whitepaper to learn the four-phase approach for effectively managing the risks and costs associated with IM >

Software Download: The Symantec IM Detection Utility can quickly and easily help you identify how many employees in your organization are using IM. This information can help you determine if you need an IM security and management solution to protect against IM threats. Take the first step toward securing IM in your organization today! >

Whitepaper: This whitepaper provides a best practices overview for effectively managing the risks and costs associated with the corporate use of IM. Download this white paper today and learn more about the security and legal risks associated with IM usage and how to overcome them. >

Trialware: Download now to seamlessly manage, secure, log, and archive corporate instant-messaging traffic with certified support for public and enterprise IM networksincluding granular policy enforcement and security controls for files, audio, video, VoIP, application sharing, and other real-time communication capabilities. >

Whitepaper: For organizations seeking prescriptive guidance for driving business advantage from instant messaging applications, this whitepaper provides a best practices overview for effectively managing the risks and costs associated with the corporate use of IM. >

Whitepaper: Electronic communications tools can provide your organization with enormous productivity benefits for employees and provide you with competitive advantages. This whitepaper focuses on the need to monitor and manage outbound content, discusses the key drivers that are making it necessary and the steps that an organization should take to mitigate the risks it faces from employee use of communication tools. >

Whitepaper: This whitepaper reviews each of the Enterprise-Scale Administration features of Symantec Enterprise Vault, providing a basic understanding of how these solutions can be configured and utilized. >

Case Study: The number of statistical reports and surveys offered by Statistics Canada has grown dramatically over the last 10 years, increasing server requirements, data storage capacity, and IT operating costs. To meet future business needs, Statistics Canada faced five major challenges. First, a disparate IT environment needed to be consolidated; operating costs needed to be reduced; a better method for allocating and provisioning both server and storage disk space was needed; the IS department needed the ability to automatically track and bill divisions for allocated disk space; and unstructured file and print data needed to be centrally managed and migrated to a more cost-effective storage infrastructure. >

Whitepaper: The features and functionality introduced in Symantec Enterprise Vault 7.0 take enterprise archiving to a whole new level, raising the bar on what archiving is and how companies can use it. This whitepaper is intended to introduce some of the new features of Enterprise Vault 7.0 and explain their importance and their benefits. >

Analyst Report: Symantec Enterprise Vault 6 is the high scorer in email capture and management, ease of use, range of content types supported, storage flexibility, proven scalability and performance, and market presence, Forrester found >

Data Sheet: Enterprise Vault File System Archiving addresses storage cost and resource issues by providing an automated and integrated solution for archiving file server content to lower cost storage. >

Whitepaper: Enterprise-wide document management and archiving systems are increasingly the target of ever-expanding discovery requests. The scope of what is required versus what is reasonable changes with every major ruling. New federal rules of civil procedure have been proposed that will have a great impact on corporations and the systems they choose to manage their files, new and old. >

Data Sheet: Compliance Accelerator allows organizations to perform cost-effective supervisory review of broker-dealer e-mail to help ensure complian Symantec Enterprise Vault for Microsoft SharePoint Portal Server ce with regulatory bodies. It also helps to decrease the cost and effort of e-mail supervision, review, and compliance demonstration. >

Data Sheet: A seamless, user-driven classification model can help reduce the number of steps a user must take in order to classify an e-mailand ultimately help to control the storage and operational costs of e-mail archives. >

Data Sheet: PST files werent designed to handle the rigorous demands of todays large-scale corporate e-mail requirements, and thus cause many problems for IT managers. Enterprise Vault software helps organizations solve these issues by migrating or eradicating PST into the central archiving repository. >

Data Sheet: Enterprise Vault is a standalone, software-based solution that integrates with Microsoft Exchange 2000 Server, Exchange Server 5.5, and Exchange Server 2003 and 2007 environments to help organizations take control over the explosive growth of vital business content found in e-mail. >

Data Sheet: Installing Enterprise Vault software before moving to Microsoft Exchange 2003 can dramatically lessen the workload that is required when migrating from previous versions of Microsoft Exchange. >

Data Sheet: Symantec Enterprise Vault 7.0 Content Management Connector for EMC Documentum Retention Policy Services enables Documentum users to manage the retention of Microsoft Exchange Server e-mail messages stored with the Enterprise Vault solution. Through direct integration, Documentum retention policies can be applied transparently to e-mail messages, which are treated as records and stored and managed by Enterprise Vault >

Tech Overview: IMlogic IM Manager, the leading secure IM management solution, delivers real-time threat protection, rapid deployment, management, and records compliance for enterprise-wide instant messaging usage. As the only secure IM management solution designed to deliver enterprise-class scalability, reliability and extensibility, IM Manager offers the most comprehensive support available for public, enterprise and hosted IM networks. >

Download: The Symantec IM Detection Utility can quickly and easily help you identify how many employees in your organization are using IM. This information can help you determine if you need an IM security and management solution to protect against IM threats. Take the first step toward securing IM in your organization today! >

Case Study: Learn how Siebel leveraged OpForce software to design and implement an employee self-service server provisioning model that allows its IT staff to transfer the business of server builds to development, system engineering, and customer support staff. >

Article: Corporate messaging is becoming the new mission-critical application for today's business. In 2006, a typical corporate user is estimated to contribute about 3.8 GB of electronic data per year to be stored and managed. >

Flash Case Study: Learn how Webcor Builders, the largest general contractor in the Western United States, used Symantec's Enterprise Vault to help control its growing amount of Exchange e-mail. The Enterprise Vault installation paid for itself in less than one year and saves Webcor $90,000 per year in e-mail managment costs. Macromedia Flash Player Required. >

Whitepaper: E-mail/messaging is the number one data-protection concern of IT departments today, according to a recent survey conducted by the Enterprise Strategy Group. Learn how Enterprise Messaging Management solutions transform risk and liability into strength and assets >

ESG Market Review: According to a recent survey conducted by the Enterprise Strategy Group (ESG), e-mail/messaging is the number one data-protection concern of IT departments today. Learn how Enterprise Messaging Management solutions transform risk and liability into strength and assets. >

Case Study: When the world's largest and best-known public broadcaster had no system for archiving e-mail in its Exchange environment and no way to gain control of mail server proliferation, it turned to Symantec's Enterprise Vault. This study by Forrester Research found a return on investment of 13% with a payback period of 17 months. >

Whitepaper: This whitepaper discusses the need for organizations to implement email archiving solutions that will serve a number of requirements and constituencies. It also discusses Symantec's e-mail archiving solutions, as well as the results of an Osterman Research survey on the topic. >