CRN Exclusive: CEO Michael Brown On What Partners Can Expect From The 'New' Symantec

How do you view your position in the market today and how does the Veritas sale change that?

Brown: If you look at overall market position, as I said we're No. 1. We're probably twice as big as our next, nearest competitor in security, which would be Intel Security, what was formerly known as McAfee, followed by IBM and Cisco. I think what gets a lot of attention are the fast, small players that are growing, so there's tons of money being put in startups... What we see as our role is not only to continue with the products that we're known for in endpoint protection, DLP, but to broaden from there. We have a lot of new products, six to 12 new products that are coming in the second half of this fiscal year in enterprise security, so that we can simplify what for customers has become an overwhelmingly complex task... We believe that we're No. 1 in consumer and No. 1 in enterprise and therefore No. 1 in total. There's 15 different markets that we participate in and we have the No. 1, No. 2 or No. 3 position in 13 of those 15 markets.