Altiris, Inc. is a leading provider of service-oriented management software. Symantec`s Altiris products offer Web-based service, security, compliance and system management solutions that reduce the cost of owning heterogeneous IT assets. Altiris IT lifecycle management solutions automate and simplify challenging IT requirements like PC and server provisioning, system security audit and compliance, patch management, migration, and IT asset and service management. Symantec offers customers a unique approach to IT management with modular, natively integrated solutions that allow companies to implement a comprehensive IT lifecycle management solution or just add capabilities as needed.

Altiris’s parent company, Symantec, is a global leader in infrastructure software, enabling businesses and consumers to have confidence in a connected world. The company helps customers protect their infrastructure, information, and interactions by delivering software and services that address risks to security, availability, compliance, and performance.

Symantec’s acquisition of Altiris in January 2007 bolsters its position and leverages its strengths on the enterprise endpoint. Symantec helps businesses protect their endpoints with leading security, compliance, and backup and recovery solutions for mobile devices and PCs to servers and storage assets. Altiris helps companies manage their endpoints and the configuration of those assets. With the Altiris solutions, Symantec expects to be able to help customers better manage and enforce security policies at the endpoint, identify and protect against threats, and repair and service assets.