Relationship between these Antivirus terms: Symantec, Norton, VMWare, Broadcom, Carbon Black

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Carbon Black

  • 2002 founded by Bit9
  • 2019 VMWare acquired CB
  • 2023 Broadcom acquired VMWare

Norton Antivirus

  • 1998 When Symantec Antivirus for Mac (SAM) was renamed Norton Antivirus (NAV) which was eponym of Peter Norton Computing which was acquired by Symantec in 1990.
  • 2019 Broadcom acquired Enterprise Security Software Division of Symantec, and Symantec was itself renamed NortonLifeLock.
  • 2022 NortonLifeLock merged with Avast and renamed Gen Digital Inc.
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