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1. Symantec Academic Alliances
Partnering for Student Success

2. Is your institution teaching
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3. Today’s students need to know tomorrow’s technology
At the rate of technological change, by the time they face the real
world, even tomorrow’s technology may be yesterday’s. That’s why the
Symantec Academic Alliances Program was developed—to help faculty
teach leading-edge IT technologies. From cyber security best practices, to
secure application coding, to storage and data management, Symantec’s
multi-media tools for educators provide students with intimacy with
every part of managing information in the modern data center. It helps
institutions teach today’s technologies—and to prepare for tomorrow’s—
in real-world contexts.

4. Symantec Academic Alliances courseware draws from curricula
taught to thousands of working professionals each year
The coursework includes both technical fundamentals, and detailed,
hands-on product training. Your students will benefit from the most current
content and future-ready thought leadership on today’s most important IT
issues, including:
• Data management, backup and storage
• Security – cloud security, cyber threats, end-user security
training and more
• Endpoint management and protection
• Technology and law – eDiscovery, legal holds, storage,
transparent predictive coding
• Secure applications coding

5. Your students will learn with the same
tools used by over 99% of the Fortune 100
Symantec course materials blend with and augment instructor curricula,
ensuring that students have access to hands-on instruction based on one
of the most comprehensive sources of IT expertise and Internet threat data
in the world. With training based on real-world scenarios, you’ll give them
a leg up in the real-world marketplace.

6. For instructors, the Academic Alliances Program offers:
• Both eLearning and eBook content for online or offline use
• Research materials, whitepapers, eLearning and more for
instructor preparation
• Hands-on labs for many technical product courses
• Curriculum development support

7. Ensure that your IT instruction meets today’s market needs
Access broad, deep curricula and tools that raise the profile of your
programs, and attract the best and the brightest students. The program
serves both technical and non-technical students, including those focused
on Business Administration, Law, Information Technology, Information
Security and more.

8. World Class Security Expertise
Through your partnership with the Symantec Academic Alliances Program,
students will learn lessons gleaned from spam, phishing and malware
data captured through a system of more than five million decoy
accounts, malicious code reports from more than 130 million systems
across the Internet, and data from 240,000 network sensors in more than
200 countries.

9. Pave your students’ paths to success
with leading-edge curricula from Symantec
The Symantec Academic Alliance Program courseware is available to
accredited higher education institutions. For more information about the
program or how your institution can become an Authorized Academic
Alliance partner, go to:
go.symantec.com/academic_alliances
or email academic_alliances@symantec.com.