Symantec Releases 2010 Corporate Responsibility Report

MOUNTAIN VIEW, CA, Oct 11 (MARKET WIRE) --
Symantec (NASDAQ: SYMC) announced today that it has launched its 2010
Corporate Responsibility Report, highlighting the company's commitments
and actions with respect to environmental, social and governance goals.
This year's report represents the company's first web-based design, which
offers increased transparency around the company's progress against its
corporate responsibility goals, as well as access to more specific data
and metrics. It is Symantec's goal to acknowledge both its successes and
areas for improvement equally and to provide a candid assessment of its
performance, particularly in the issue areas it has identified as most
material to the business. The online report also examines Symantec's
practices and policies around corporate governance and ethics, as well as
its philanthropy and community outreach strategy. The report can be
accessed at http://www.symantec.com/corporate_responsibility.

"Leadership in corporate responsibility advances our stakeholders'
interests and strengthens our own competitive positioning," said Enrique
Salem, Chief Executive Officer, Symantec. "We've focused specifically on
topics that our stakeholders -- and Symantec itself -- consider high
priorities."

In addition to environmental, social, and governance issues, the report
includes a look into information security, customer satisfaction, climate
change, human rights, diversity and inclusion, and talent retention.
Highlights include:

-- In Fiscal Year 2010, Symantec continued to provide its groundbreaking
Web-based service, Norton Online Family, for download free of charge.
This service helps parents communicate more effectively with their
children about responsible Internet use.
-- Symantec is committed to addressing the challenges of global climate
change and supporting responsible energy and climate legislation. We
are reducing our data center energy use and related greenhouse gas
emissions by deploying our data storage and management solutions --
and we're helping our customers to reduce their energy use and
associated costs, as well. Globally, nine Symantec sites were
LEED-certified and ten Symantec buildings obtained ENERGY STAR ratings
in the past year. Symantec also joined the United States Environmental
Protection Agency's Climate Leaders program to help us better measure
and track our GHG emissions.
-- Workplace diversity and inclusive hiring and promotion are a business
imperative for Symantec. As part of our continuing efforts to promote
gender equality, Symantec declared its support for the Women's
Empowerment Principles in May 2010. The Principles, which were
developed by the United Nations Development Fund for Women (UNIFEM)
and the United Nations Global Compact, identify important steps that
businesses can take to advance and empower women.
-- Symantec believes the role of technology companies in protecting human
rights, especially privacy and freedom of expression is important. In
Fiscal Year 2010, Symantec completed a review of existing supply chain
management practices and also published our first human rights policy.

Corporate Responsibility in Fiscal Year 2011 and Beyond

In addition to launching an interactive view of the 2010 Corporate
Responsibility Report, Symantec is setting its goals for corporate
responsibility for Fiscal Year 2011 and beyond. The areas that Symantec
has committed to include Climate and Energy, Customer Satisfaction,
Securing Information, Diversity & Inclusion and Human Rights. A few of
those goals include:

-- Set a new overall GHG-reduction goal in line with Symantec's growing
business.
-- Increase Symantec customer and partner loyalty scores by 7 percent.
-- Be an advocate for cyber security and data breach legislation across
Europe, Middle East, Africa (EMEA) and Asia-Pacific, Japan (APJ)
regions.
-- Craft career development goals for 100 percent of top performing
technical women.
-- Increase representation of women in leadership (managers -- SVP level)
from 25 percent to 27 percent globally in FY11 to better reflect the
overall representation at the company.
-- Adopt and begin implementing a supplier code of conduct.
-- Define and publish Symantec's corporate-wide position on privacy.

For a complete list of the Symantec Corporate Responsibility Goals
for 2011 and beyond please visit:
http://www.symantec.com/corporate_responsibility/topic.jsp?id=performance_highli
hts

About Symantec's Corporate Responsibility Program

Corporate responsibility at Symantec is intertwined with the company's
core purpose of securing and managing our customers' information-driven
world. Symantec defines corporate responsibility as the way in which we
fulfill our business objectives -- by giving full attention and respect
to ethical operation, the environment, and commitment to positive social
impact.

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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CONTACT:
Lauren Ames
Symantec
415-279-6444
Lauren_ames@symantec.com

Betsy Weber
Weber Shandwick
415-262-5997
bweber@webershandwick.com

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