Symantec has unveiled Norton Everywhere, a three-part initiative to take Norton beyond the PC and extend to new devices and consumer applications. The initiative spans the areas of mobile safety, web safety across any device and embedded services on smart devices.
Symantec said that it is combining its own consumer security, backup and infrastructure technologies with partners to deliver Norton services to consumers in a way to protect them across various locations, devices and digital experiences.
The company said that Norton Mobile will address some common issues for smartphones, including device loss and data protection. Delivering on Norton Mobile, the Norton Smartphone Security Beta for Android, which is scheduled to be available in June 2010, provides users the ability to remotely lock or wipe their device from prying eyes via text message in the event of device loss. It also offers users antimalware protection and call blocking for unwanted callers.
The Norton Connect Beta, a free mobile application that can access any files archived via Norton Online Backup or Norton 360 from your iPhone, iPad or Android device is scheduled for release in June.
According to Symantec, the Norton DNS Beta is based on the domain name system that acts as the internet’s invisible switchboard has been designed to provide a faster internet experience by delivering various basic protection services like antiphishing, antimalware and anti-spyware via Norton verified web filtering.
Norton DNS is scheduled to be available in June. Also in June, Android users can access Norton DNS Beta for web access when on wi-fi via a mobile application from the Android Market.
In addition, Norton for Smart Devices brings Symantec embedded security and other services into non-PC internet connected media devices such as Blu-ray players, televisions and media streamers, smartphones, home security systems, digital cameras, and picture frames, the company said.
