Ubiquity, Symantec’s game-changing new technology for detecting malware, has received the Wall Street Journal's prestigious, "Innovations in Technology" award for network security. Ubiquity analyzes files in context, using the age, frequency, and source along with other security metrics to expose threats other technologies miss. Based on results from over 100 million systems in over 200 countries, Ubiquity uses context to identify rapidly changing threats. Ubiquity will boost the detection, performance, and accuracy of Symantec’s security solutions for years to come.

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Ubiquity isn’t a product or feature. Ubiquity is a foundation technology used to increase the performance and accuracy of all our malware detection systems. Under the name, Insight, Ubiquity has already shipped in over 100 million copies of Symantec’s Norton products, is used in Symantec Hosted Endpoint Protection, and is one of the technologies used by Symantec‘s Breach Response Team.

Ubiquity:

• Detects threats as they are created
• Boosts performance by eliminating up to 90% of scan overhead
• Uses file context to reduce false positives and cut management overhead.

Over the next year, Symantec plans to add Ubiquity to many of our Enterprise and SMB (Small and Medium Business) endpoint security products including the next release of Symantec Endpoint Protection, as well as our gateway and mail scanning solutions.

Is Ubiquity the same as reputation-based security?

When Symantec first introduced reputation-based security in its Norton products, many competitors claimed to follow suit. Some placed their malware signatures on internet servers and called it file reputation. This approach might provide faster access to signatures but fails to use the context of files to detect threats. Other competitors took the next step and actually rated the reputation of the source of files, a step in the right direction, yet still not true context-aware security because they cannot track the prevalence of files to identify rapidly mutating threats.

Only Ubiquity has over 100 million endpoints providing telemetry on billions of files – the scale necessary to answer critical questions like:

• How common is this file?
• Is this file associated with infections or infectious behavior?
• How new is this file?
• Is the source of the file associated with infections?

Is Ubiquity the same as Reputation based security? No, Ubiquity is what reputation should be.

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