Symantec, Carbon Black Unite Under Broadcom

Jason Rolleston: Unified Agent and AI Aim to Boost Midmarket Security Capabilities Michael Novinson (MichaelNovinson) • December 30, 2025

Consolidating Symantec, Carbon Black and other legacy security technologies into a single-agent framework is essential for Broadcom’s internal development efficiency and for customer usability, said Jason Rolleston, Broadcom vice president and general manager, enterprise security group.

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Developing and testing duplicate codebases across multiple agents created redundant engineering overhead. It burdened customers with multiple agents, which boosts complexity and risk, said Rolleston. The company has built a modular architecture where the base agent interacts with the operating system and modules can be dynamically downloaded and activated based on client needs (see: Unified Security: Why Broadcom Joined Symantec, Carbon Black).

"You can think of it almost as a blade and chassis," Rolleston said. "We have a framework that interacts with the operating ...