Healthcare Customers Cut Costs and Improve the Delivery of Patient Care With Symantec

CUPERTINO, CA, Apr 07 (MARKET WIRE) --
Symantec Corp. (NASDAQ: SYMC) today announced Molina Healthcare, Silver
Cross Hospital and Visiting Nurse Service of New York (VNSNY) are using
technologies and services within the Symantec Healthcare Provider
Solution to improve patient care, reduce IT costs and comply with
regulations governing the security and availability of patient records.
The Symantec Healthcare Provider Solution enables Molina Healthcare and
Visiting Nurse Service of New York to ensure patient records are both
protected and immediately accessible to authorized personnel. The
Symantec Healthcare Provider Solution will also help both organizations
answer President Obama's call to have all medical records digitized by
2014.

Molina Healthcare

Molina Healthcare, Inc. is a multi-state managed care organization that
arranges for the delivery of health care services to persons eligible for
Medicaid, Medicare, and other government-sponsored programs for low-income
families and individuals. Molina Healthcare's ten licensed health plan
subsidiaries currently serve approximately 1.2 million members.

The organization's IT team faces the complexity of managing laptops,
smartphones and PDAs for 2,300 employees in multiple states -- and keeping
them patched, protected and compliant.

After implementing several Symantec products that make up the Symantec
Healthcare Provider Solution -- including Symantec Endpoint Protection,
Symantec Control Compliance Suite, Symantec Veritas NetBackup and
NetBackup PureDisk, Veritas CommandCentral Storage, Veritas Storage
Foundation, Veritas Cluster Server and Symantec Enterprise Vault content
and archiving software -- Molina has realized numerous benefits,
including:

-- A projected $5.5 million saving over the next three years through
reclaimed storage space, reduced administration costs, savings from moving
data to lower cost tiers of storage, and reduced downtime.
-- Reducing backup costs by 60 percent and the time it takes to recover a
production application from 10-15 hours to two hours.
-- Migrating more than 3,000 Microsoft Exchange personal folder files
spread across the corporate network into a central repository where their
contents are now indexed and easily searchable.
-- Reducing the costs of securing and managing 2,300 laptops, desktops
and other endpoint devices in multiple locations by 80 percent. Managing
security for these endpoints is now a part-time assignment for a single
person, as opposed to the four-to-five employees working full-time.

Silver Cross Hospital

Based in Joliet, Ill., Silver Cross Hospital is a not-for-profit 304-bed
acute care hospital. Silver Cross Hospital implemented Symantec Workspace
Corporate software, part of Symantec's Endpoint Virtualization Suite,
which creates a container around an individual's authorized applications
and data, enabling caregivers to sign in just by swiping their hospital ID
badge and entering a password. With Symantec, the hospital's team of 1,000
caregivers can open any needed application on a virtualized custom
desktop, and then walk away when done and have the desktop close
automatically. As a caregiver goes on rounds, the desktop session remains
accessible at whatever workstation is closest. The hospital has reclaimed
20,000 staff hours a year, which can be used for patient care rather than
administrative tasks.

Silver Cross also implemented Symantec BackupExec for Windows Servers,
which has further increased the hospital's efficiency by helping reduce
backup and recovery times from an hour or more to just a few minutes.

Visiting Nurse Service of New York

The Visiting Nurse Service of New York is the largest not-for-profit home
health care organization in the country. VNSNY has 4,000 clinicians that
use laptops to access patient records while visiting an average of 30,000
patients a day. VNSNY has implemented Symantec Endpoint Protection 11.0
and Symantec Endpoint Encryption to enable ready access to those records
while ensuring compliance with the patient privacy and security
requirements of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act
(HIPAA).

Symantec Endpoint Protection integrates essential technologies such as
antivirus, antispyware, firewall, intrusion prevention, device and
application control, and requires only a single agent that is managed by
one management console. Combined with Symantec Endpoint Protection, VNSNY
ensures data residing on laptops and the corporate network is both secure
and readily available to authorized personnel.

VNSNY also relies on Symantec DeepSight Threat Management System to
provide real-time intelligence covering the complete threat lifecycle,
from initial vulnerability to active attack. With personalized
notification triggers and expert analysis, DeepSight enables enterprises
to prioritize IT resources in order to better protect critical
information assets against a potential attack.

QUOTES

"Standardization has enabled us to displace four or five vendors.
Standardizing on integrated tools from Symantec gives us the biggest bang
for the buck."

-- Sri Bharadwaj, director of infrastructure and operations, Molina
Healthcare, Inc.

"Symantec Workspace Corporate combined with Dell Flexible Computing is
saving caregivers 5 minutes a day. That's 20,000 hours a year that can be
focused on patients instead of technology."

-- Bill Bisch, Network Manager, Silver Cross Hospital

"None of the user's data or application access remains on the endpoint,
but if the user signs on to a different endpoint within a specified
timeout period, Symantec Workspace Corporate enables the user's desktop
to reappear just the way it was left. Doctors just love the roaming
capabilities because everything a doctor had open at the last workstation
is waiting at the next one."

-- Bill Bisch, Network Manager, Silver Cross Hospital

"Our clinicians and executives are very mobile, so the risk of the loss or
theft of a laptop is increased. Symantec Endpoint Encryption gives me
peace of mind by allowing me to make sure laptops are locked down and the
data residing on them and on our network is inaccessible to anyone not
authorized to view them."

-- Larry Whiteside, Jr. CISO, Visiting Nurse Service of New York

"Before we started leveraging the information provided by the Symantec
DeepSight Threat Management System and Symantec Event Information Manager
(SEIM), we had to assign two full-time employees to spend their days
checking all the logs that are now automatically correlated and
prioritized. DeepSight provides us with alerts and information on patches,
which significantly reduces the number man-of hours we must devote to
managing security of our systems."

-- Larry Whiteside, Jr. CISO, Visiting Nurse Service of New York

About Symantec

Symantec is a global leader in providing security, storage and systems
management solutions to help consumers and organizations secure and manage
their information-driven world. Our software and services protect against
more risks at more points, more completely and efficiently, enabling
confidence wherever information is used or stored. More information is
available at www.symantec.com.

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Gina Sheibley
Symantec Corporation
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