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As crackers and phishers get more sinister and smart, it would seem that security companies will need to be on their toes 24/7. Hence as can be seen from this InformationWeek article by Larry Greenemeier, Symantec Corporation will be concentrating on combining technologies that protect information rather than just roll out scattered software. This is their so called "Security 2.0" initiative. And now we have the Norton Confidential Online Edition which is a transaction security product that will reside on banking and financial Web sites and asks users to download the software, which will then authenticate the bank's Web site at every login.


clickz reports

According to Symantec chairman and CEO John Thompson, the problem of “worms and viruses is solved.” Today’s more relevant threats today are phishing and fraud, as well as organized crime’s interest in stealing and reselling personal information. In response to identity theft concerns, Symantec is launching a series of Security 2.0 offerings, which include a Norton Confidential Online Edition that helps secure online transactions, an identity-protection partnership with VeriSign, a security services partnership with Accenture, and new Symantec products for increasing e-mail security.