NortonLifeLock Inc

Founded on March 1, 1982, NortonLifeLock is an American Software Company based in Tempe, Arizona. The company offers cybersecurity software services for computers and laptops. It also owns development centres in Bangalore, Pune and Chennai. The company announced it would split into 2 different publicly traded companies by 2015 end of 2015. The focus of one company would be information management while the other would be security. In December 2004, the company announced its plan for a merger with Veritas Software. In June 2005, NortonLifeLock shareholders voted to acquire a merger and were able to close the deal successfully in July 2005. As a result of the merger, NortonLifeLock included storage-related products in its portfolio. This included products like the Veritas Volume Manager (VxVM), Veritas File System (VxFS), Cluster Server (VCS), Volume Replicator (VVR), Backup Exec (BE), NetBackup (NBU) and Enterprise Vault (EV). In January 2016, the company sold Veritas Technology to the Carlyle Group. The company acquired ACT! in 1993, from Contact Software International. This subsidiary was later sold in 1999 to SalesLogix. On August 2005, NortonLifeLock acquired Sygate, which is a security software firm with 200 staff members, based in Fremont, California. Since November 2005, Sygate firewall products were discontinued. On May 2014, the company acquired NitroDesk, who were the providers of Touchdown. This was a third-party EAS mobile application, which a market-leading company. NortonLifeLock acquired Blue Coat for $4.65 billion in June 2016. In 2017, the company acquired LifeLock, causing it to change its name from Symantec to NortonLifeLock. The company has a workforce of 11,900 employees. It is ranked at 573 in the Fortune list of 1000 companies. Newsweek recognised NortonLifeLock as one of America’s Most Responsible Companies 2021. Forbes recognised NortonLifeLock as America’s Most JUST Companies in 2020. Also, in 2020, the company ranked in the list of 100 Best Corporate Citizens. The company also ranked at 633 in the list of World’s Best Employers 2020. It is also a component of the S&P 500 index. NortonLifeLock shares are traded on the New York Stock Exchange, NASDAQ and Cboe Exchange under the ticker symbol “NLOK”.