Security Intelligence

Symantec has established some of the most comprehensive sources of Internet threat data in the world. The Symantec Global Intelligence Network encompasses worldwide security intelligence data gathered from a wide range of sources, including more than 40,000 sensors monitoring networks in more than 180 countries through Symantec products and services such as Symantec DeepSight™ Threat Management System and Symantec Managed Security Services, and from other third-party sources.

Symantec gathers malicious code reports from more than 120 million client, server, and gateway systems that have deployed its antivirus product, and also maintains one of the world’s most comprehensive vulnerability databases, currently consisting of more than 25,000 recorded vulnerabilities (spanning more than two decades) affecting more than 55,000 technologies from more than 8,000 vendors. Symantec also operates the BugTraq mailing list, one of the most popular forums for the disclosure and discussion of vulnerabilities on the Internet, which has approximately 50,000 direct subscribers who contribute, receive, and discuss vulnerability research on a daily basis.

As well, the Symantec Probe Network, a system of more than 2 million decoy accounts in more than 30 countries, attracts email from around the world to gauge global spam and phishing activity. Symantec also gathers phishing information through the Symantec Phish Report Network, an extensive antifraud community of enterprises and consumers whose members contribute and receive fraudulent Web site addresses for alerting and filtering across a broad range of solutions.

These resources give Symantec’s analysts unparalleled sources of data with which to identify, analyze, and provide informed commentary on emerging trends in attacks, malicious code activity, phishing, and spam.