Symantec updated its mobile security offerings this weekend with a push to its mobile security services. It requires a Norton Account and additional permissions within your service account and offers services that are nearly identical to Lookout Mobile’s backup and locate services. There is not that much here to differentiate this product from the myriad other players on the scene right now (aside from the “Norton” name), and there isn’t a lot to attract large corporate customers looking to secure their data on mobile endpoints.
One could argue that Norton is not necessarily competing on the commercial scale here but is instead targeting the small-end consumer. Tests at TechOrchard on multiple devices did not reveal anything that would be useful at the corporate level.
