Tata Consultancy Services (TCS), a leading IT services, consulting and business solutions organization, today announced that it has partnered with Symantec Corporation, a global leader in information protection and security software, to provide analytics driven security services.

The partnership will enable customers to leverage business opportunities, reduce costs and improve productivity through the combination of TCS’ security industry expertise with Symantec’s security technologies.

Customers will benefit from TCS' portfolio of world-class integrated next-gen security management service offerings, underpinned by Symantec’s enterprise security solutions in data protection, datacenter and cloud security and threat intelligence. Through this partnership, TCS and Symantec will develop industry standard joint offerings, providing customers with unique, simplified, anytime, anywhere services powered through Symantec’s product suite.

''TCS and Symantec are working together to empower businesses with strategic solutions that will help them transform their businesses to reduce risk, cost, complexity, and overcome compliance challenges,'' said Satish Thiagarajan, global head, Enterprise Security and Risk Management, TCS. ''Symantec's technology product range is a key enabler of TCS’ service and solution offerings, and we look forward to providing new and existing customers the highest level of analytics driven security.''

Shares of the company gained Rs 10.7, or 0.42%, to settle at Rs 2,536.20. The total volume of shares traded was 37,920 at the BSE (Friday).