Symantec announced the expansion of its Security Operations Center (SOC) in Chennai, India.
The US-based cyber security company said it will offer security intelligence insights, and faster detection and response through regional coverage and visibility of the threat landscape in this economy.
The expanded SOC will offer Symantec Cyber Security Services (CSS) capabilities, helping customers reduce operational costs while extending the capabilities of their security teams to expedite response to attacks across on-premises and cloud environments.
This is the largest Symantec SOC in Asia Pacific and Japan. The center will support regional customers and other Symantec SOCs across the globe. The cyber security center has more than 100 cyber security professionals.
Symantec CEO Greg Clark said: “Our expansion in Chennai and other SOC territories highlights our commitment to providing the most evolved cyber security to customers around the world.”
Symantec’s SOCs are powered by the world’s largest civilian threat intelligence network, utilizing the power of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning (ML).
“With the Chennai SOC, Symantec CSS continues to sharpen its competitive advantage for our customers as well as our growing network of cyber warriors,” Samir Kapuria, executive vice president, Cyber Security Services at Symantec, said.
Symantec has 500 plus cyber security professional across six global SOCs to analyze over 150 billion security logs worldwide each day. Symantec helps secure 175 million endpoints, 80 million web proxy users, 63 million email users and 50 million consumer users.
