Symantec Acquires Boeing's Cybersecurity Unit in a Bid to Boost Big Data Capabilities

Symantec has indicated that it hopes to utilize Narus for big data analytics to prevent, detect and remediate cyberattacks. Symantec's massive global threat intelligence network collects information from millions of Norton and Symantec endpoints and 42 million attack sensors. It hopes to accelerate meaningful generation of information from this data by utilizing the expertise of the acquired firm in machine learning, security, big data analytics and networking.