Symantec board ousts CEO Enrique Salem

Under pressure for disappointing financials, Symantec has abruptly replaced its CEO Enrique Salem with chairman Steve Bennett, the company has announced.

Symantec’s public statements made almost no attempt to gloss over Salem’s upending after a three-year reign in which the company has fallen out of favour, its most recent quarterly profits falling 10 percent year-on-year. Salem had worked for the vendor for almost two decades.