Symantec Corporation is the largest maker of security software headquartered in Mountain View, California. Founded in 1982 by Gary Hendrix, it developed early word processing and database software and later acquired Norton Computing to add antivirus and utility products. Today it offers a wide range of Norton security products for computers and mobile devices as well as cloud services, consulting, education, and support services.

2. About the company
Symantec Corporation is the
largest maker of security software for
computers.
The company is headquartered in
Mountain View, California.

3. History
Founded in 1982 by Gary
Hendrix.
Hendrix hired several Stanford
University natural language processing
researchers as the company's first
employees, among them Barry
Greenstein (professional poker player
and developer of the word processor
component within Q&A).

4. Q & A was a dual purpose software
system published by Symantec, and
written by a team headed by Symantec
founder in the 1980s and into the 1990s
.The system provided both a word
processor and a database.
In May 1990 Symantec announced
its intent to merge with and acquire
Peter Norton Computing, a
developer of various utilities for
DOS.

5. Symantec Antivirus for the
Macintosh (SAM), and Symantec
Utilities for the Macintosh (SUM)
were the two products which were
the market leaders on the MAC.

6. Norton products
Norton 360
Norton AntiVirus (for Windows and Mac)
 Norton Internet Security (for Windows and
Mac)
 Norton SystemWorks (which now contains
Norton Utilities)

7.  Norton Ghost
 Norton Smartphone Security
 Norton Online Backup
 Norton Save & Restore

8. SERVICES
Consulting services
Education services
Symantec cloud services
Managed services
Support services

9. Software as a Service
Symantec cloud service
secures and manage
information stored on
endpoints.

10. CSR Profile of Symantec
Corporation
Symantec Corporation is the global
leader in providing information
security solutions to help protect
consumers and businesses by
assuring the security, availability and
integrity of their information.

11. To raise cyber security awareness at
the community level, and programs
ensuring the protection of customers'
private information.

12. BIBLIOGRAPHY
http://www.symantec.com/index.jsp
http://www.csrwire.com/members/12802-Symantec-
Corporation
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symantec