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Today, government agencies face a range of tough IT challenges. Organizations need to store and protect the nation's most sensitive and confidential data, as well as provide public access to open information. This access to information must be maintained no matter what. Further, agencies must ensure compliance with relevant regulations concerning electronic information, including email and instant messaging. As often is the case, this needs to be accomplished with limited resources. Today, Symantec offers solutions that help agencies to keep critical information safe, available, and compliant. Visit our new public sector microsite to view videos, whitepapers, ask the experts to learn how Symantec can help solve IT challenges the government faces like e-discovery and Continuity of Operations.

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Government agencies, academic institutions, and healthcare organizations face a variety of tough IT challenges. The mission to make information readily accessible to a broad array of constituencies, including voters, patients and students, is just the beginning. In addition, these sectors face technology upgrades, internal and external regulations, and often limited resources. Symantec can be of assistance by providing key solutions to help you keep critical information safe, available, and compliant—regardless of the size of the public sector organization.

Continuity of Operations

Fast backups or rapid recovery is no longer a valid choice with today's level of threats and risk. With Symantec, you can provide continuous backup and fast recovery simultaneously to protect critical data and systems. Symantec's award-winning solutions offer easy administration with centralized operations that allow IT staff to manage backup and recovery functions for multiple locations. Symantec's advanced technologies deliver:

Information Risk Management

To manage the flow of email to minimize risks and interruptions, organizations need a layered approach that stops threats at the SMTP gateway, on to end users, and beyond to archiving and storage systems. Integrated solutions from Symantec help ensure that only relevant email is delivered and stored in a secure, accessible location. Symantec helps protect email data and systems from attacks, make them highly available for authorized or investigative purposes, and enables regulatory compliance and legal discovery, and more:

Regulatory / IT Policy Compliance

Public agencies and academic institutions have to comply with a variety of laws and standards that don’t affect the private sector. For instance, the National Plan for Information Systems Protection calls on government agencies to provide strong security for their critical information infrastructure and communications capabilities. Other regulations mandate that digital records be made readily accessible to the public, which requires technologies that enable efficient data retention, discovery and retrieval. Symantec offers best-in-class, specialized solutions for security, email archiving, policy management, so you can:

Data Center Management

Public agencies depend more and more on enterprise applications and the Web. IT systems must be reliable, responsive, and resilient without slowing or stopping operations. At Symantec, we believe IT infrastructure requires simplified operations across the essential elements of data center management: protection, standardization, and service delivery. Data Center Foundation is the only solution that allows enterprises to standardize on a consistent software infrastructure across application, server, and storage platforms, as well as:

Comprehensive Threat Management

Government agencies are continuously challenged by modern day security threats. These threats change on an hourly basis, are growing in frequency and complexity, and can originate from both inside and outside the network.

Symantec addresses today's security quagmire through Comprehensive Threat Management, a solution that provides anticipatory protection against internet threats of known and unknown variety, helps ensure necessary information access throughout the remediation process, and at the same time, provides a seamless route to fulfilling internal and federal compliance needs.