{"id":19548,"date":"2012-03-21T15:46:30","date_gmt":"2012-03-21T05:46:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/power-up.space\/?p=19548"},"modified":"2012-03-21T15:46:30","modified_gmt":"2012-03-21T05:46:30","slug":"symantec-to-acquire-nukona-to-help-businesses-embrace-bring-your-own-device-movement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/?p=19548","title":{"rendered":"Symantec to Acquire Nukona to Help Businesses Embrace \u201cBring Your Own Device\u201d Movement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>SYDNEY, Australia. \u2013 Mar. 21, 2012 \u2013<\/strong> Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced it has signed a <a title=\"Agreement\" href=\"http:\/\/auc.tractionplatform.com\/id=4880,18214565,23197715,277082,1?erl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.symantec.com%2Ftheme.jsp%3Fthemeid%3Dnukona-odyssey\" target=\"_blank\">definitive agreement<\/a> to acquire <a title=\"Nukona\" href=\"http:\/\/auc.tractionplatform.com\/id=4880,18214565,23197715,277083,1?erl=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nukona.com%2F\" target=\"_blank\">Nukona, Inc.<\/a>, a privately-held provider of mobile application management (MAM). The acquisition extends Symantec\u2019s enterprise mobility portfolio to include a cross-platform mobile application protection solution to help IT organisations protect and isolate corporate data and applications across both corporate owned and personally owned devices.\u00a0 The transaction is expected to close in April and is subject to customary closing conditions. The financial terms of the acquisition are not being disclosed.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Read more detailed blog post:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Mobility Milestones\" href=\"http:\/\/auc.tractionplatform.com\/id=4880,18214565,23197715,277085,1?erl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.symantec.com%2Fconnect%2Fblogs%2Fmajor-mobility-milestone-symantec%3Fom_ext_cid%3Dbiz_socmed_twitter_marketwire_2012Mar_worldwide_mobileA\" target=\"_blank\">Major Mobility Milestone for Symantec<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The acquisition of Nukona complements Symantec\u2019s acquisition earlier this month of <a title=\"Odyssey Software\" href=\"http:\/\/auc.tractionplatform.com\/id=4880,18214565,23197715,277086,1?erl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.odysseysoftware.com%2F\" target=\"_blank\">Odyssey Software <\/a>, a leading provider of mobile device management (MDM). Odyssey provides the MDM foundation to enroll and manage all necessary device settings across a broad range of platforms, while Nukona provides an innovative approach to help enterprises seamlessly distribute, secure and control applications and data without requiring them to manage the devices. By offering both MDM and MAM across multiple platforms, Symantec will enable CIOs to say \u201cyes\u201d to the onslaught of digital natives \u2013 people born in a world of connectivity \u2013 demanding to use devices and apps of their choice. Symantec will help customers secure enterprise critical mobile apps and data while managing and protecting them with policies, including authenticating users, encrypting sensitive files, preventing data leakage and selectively wiping corporate data. These acquisitions further advance Symantec\u2019s enterprise mobility leadership by enhancing capabilities for mobile device, application and data protection.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the adoption of mobile devices and apps continues to grow at an unprecedented rate, one of the biggest challenges for customers is to protect and manage the native apps, data and environments of these devices,\u201d said CJ Desai, senior vice president, Endpoint and Mobility Group, Symantec. \u201cThe acquisition of Nukona helps us further address the \u2018Consumerisation of IT\u2019 and \u2018Bring Your Own Device\u2019 trends by helping organisations protect and isolate corporate data and applications across both corporate owned and personally owned devices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With Nukona\u2019s ability to natively protect and control iOS, Android and HTML5 apps, Symantec will address the core problem of corporate and personal data separation without limiting the end-user experience or application adoption. By securely distributing and managing mobile applications and content, Symantec customers will be able to address corporate data security concerns around data leakage, encryption and authentication on a per-application basis, for both BYOD and corporate owned devices.<\/p>\n<p>Unlike traditional proprietary sandbox solutions, Symantec\u2019s approach will extend application protection that \u201cwraps\u201d both native and web-based apps with a management layer that allows IT to apply security policies without requiring any changes to the applications, leaving personal apps and activities untouched. In addition, the flexibility of cloud-based and on-prem enterprise app stores helps provide a seamless and scalable way to enable mobile application deployments. Nukona\u2019s secure content library also allows for the protection and synchronisation of documents without risk of data loss.<\/p>\n<p>According to Symantec\u2019s recent <a title=\"SOM Survey\" href=\"http:\/\/auc.tractionplatform.com\/id=4880,18214565,23197715,277087,1?erl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.symantec.com%2Fabout%2Fnews%2Fresources%2Fpress_kits%2Fdetail.jsp%3Fpkid%3Dstate-of-mobility-survey%26om_ext_cid%3Dbiz_socmed_twitter_marketwire_2012Mar_worldwide_mobileA\" target=\"_blank\">State of Mobility Survey <\/a>, the average annual cost of mobile incidents for enterprises, including data loss, damage to the brand, productivity loss and loss of customer trust, was USD$429,000. However, despite the risks, an uptick in mobile applications across organisations is taking place with 71 percent of enterprises at least discussing deploying custom mobile applications and one-third currently implementing or having already implemented custom mobile applications. In addition, 59 percent of enterprises are making line-of-business applications accessible from mobile devices, representing a dramatic shift in the nature of mobility from an email extension to a core business enabler.<\/p>\n<p>For more information, go to <a title=\"More information\" href=\"http:\/\/auc.tractionplatform.com\/id=4880,18214565,23197715,277088,1?erl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.symantec.com%2Ftheme.jsp%3Fthemeid%3Dnukona-odyssey\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/go.symantec.com\/Nukona_Odyssey<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Related<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/auc.tractionplatform.com\/id=4880,18214565,23197715,277089,1?erl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.symantec.com%2Fconnect%2Fblogs%2Fmajor-mobility-milestone-symantec%3Fom_ext_cid%3Dbiz_socmed_twitter_marketwire_2012Mar_worldwide_mobileA\" target=\"_blank\">Blog: Major Mobility Milestone for Symantec<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Blog\" href=\"http:\/\/auc.tractionplatform.com\/id=4880,18214565,23197715,277090,1?erl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.symantec.com%2Fconnect%2Fblogs%2Fadvancing-symantec-s-enterprise-mobility-strategy-new-innovations-unveiled%3Fom_ext_cid%3Dbiz_socmed_twitter_marketwire_2012Mar_worldwide_mobileA\" target=\"_blank\">Blog: Advancing Symantec\u2019s Enterprise Mobility Strategy: New Innovations Unveiled<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Solutions\" href=\"http:\/\/auc.tractionplatform.com\/id=4880,18214565,23197715,277091,1?erl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.symantec.com%2Fmobile-device-security%3Fom_ext_cid%3Dbiz_socmed_twitter_marketwire_2012Mar_worldwide_mobileA\" target=\"_blank\">Symantec Mobile Solutions<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Research\" href=\"http:\/\/auc.tractionplatform.com\/id=4880,18214565,23197715,277092,1?erl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.symantec.com%2Fabout%2Fnews%2Fresources%2Fpress_kits%2Fdetail.jsp%3Fpkid%3Dstate-of-mobility-survey%26om_ext_cid%3Dbiz_socmed_twitter_marketwire_2012Mar_worldwide_mobileA\" target=\"_blank\">Research: 2012 State of Mobility Survey<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Research\" href=\"http:\/\/auc.tractionplatform.com\/id=4880,18214565,23197715,277093,1?erl=http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FFQ9qFs\" target=\"_blank\">Research: A Window Into Mobile Device Security<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Research\" href=\"http:\/\/auc.tractionplatform.com\/id=4880,18214565,23197715,277094,1?erl=http%3A%2F%2Fbit.ly%2FGzm7Bp\" target=\"_blank\">Research: Motivations of Recent Android Malware<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Connect with Symantec<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a title=\"Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/auc.tractionplatform.com\/id=4880,18214565,23197715,277095,1?erl=https%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2F%23!%2FSymantecEMM\" target=\"_blank\">Follow Symantec Endpoint Management and Mobility on Twitter<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Twitter\" href=\"http:\/\/auc.tractionplatform.com\/id=4880,18214565,23197715,275307,1?erl=http%3A%2F%2Ftwitter.com%2F%23!%2Fsymantec\" target=\"_blank\">Follow Symantec on Twitter<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Facebook\" href=\"http:\/\/auc.tractionplatform.com\/id=4880,18214565,23197715,275308,1?erl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FSymantec\" target=\"_blank\">Join Symantec on Facebook<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Delicious\" href=\"http:\/\/auc.tractionplatform.com\/id=4880,18214565,23197715,150934,1?erl=http%3A%2F%2Fdelicious.com%2Fsymantecnews%2Ftrends\" target=\"_blank\">Read Industry Trends on Delicious<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Slide Share\" href=\"http:\/\/auc.tractionplatform.com\/id=4880,18214565,23197715,275309,1?erl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.slideshare.net%2Fsymantec\" target=\"_blank\">View Symantec\u2019s SlideShare Channel<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"RSS\" href=\"http:\/\/auc.tractionplatform.com\/id=4880,18214565,23197715,277096,1?erl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.symantec.com%2Fxml%2Frss%2Fpr.jsp%3Fom_ext_cid%3Dbiz_socmed_twitter_facebook_marketwire_linkedin_2012Feb_worldwide_mobileworldcongress\" target=\"_blank\">Subscribe to Symantec News RSS Feed<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a title=\"Community\" href=\"http:\/\/auc.tractionplatform.com\/id=4880,18214565,23197715,277097,1?erl=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.symantec.com%2Fconnect%2F%3Fom_ext_cid%3Dbiz_socmed_twitter_facebook_marketwire_linkedin_2012Feb_worldwide_mobileworldcongress\" target=\"_blank\">Visit Symantec Connect Business Community<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>About Symantec<br \/>\n<\/strong>Symantec is a global leader in providing security, storage and systems management solutions to help consumers and organisations secure and manage their information-driven world.\u00a0 Our software and services protect against more risks at more points, more completely and efficiently, enabling confidence wherever information is used or stored. More information is available at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.symantec.com\/\">www.symantec.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SYDNEY, Australia. \u2013 Mar. 21, 2012 \u2013 Symantec Corp. (Nasdaq: SYMC) today announced it has signed a definitive agreement to acquire Nukona, Inc., a privately-held provider of mobile application management (MAM). The acquisition extends Symantec\u2019s enterprise mobility portfolio to include a cross-platform mobile application protection solution to help IT organisations protect and isolate corporate data<\/p>\n<p class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/?p=19548\">Read More\u2026<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-game-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=19548"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19548\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19549,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19548\/revisions\/19549"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=19548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=19548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.impulsegamer.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=19548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}