Anti-Virus industry has changed a lot during that past 4-7 years, we like other companies, used to be very file signature and file scanning oriented back in 2008 or so. And as that obviously did not scale, we moved into detecting more useful patterns of attacks, and started focusing on preventing infections in the first place rather than trying to detect files dropped by already successful attacks.
Doing things the smart way requires good visibility, so we had to start doing big data. Or should we say big information, since any fool can collect massive amount of data, the trick is in converting big data into small and understandable information. However in order to do data mining we have to collect data from our users, which can be a problematic from privacy point of view. Which has lead into people asking just what kinds of data we are collecting and how we are processing it.
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Doing things the smart way requires good visibility, so we had to start doing big data. Or should we say big information, since any fool can collect massive amount of data, the trick is in converting big data into small and understandable information. However in order to do data mining we have to collect data from our users, which can be a problematic from privacy point of view. Which has lead into people asking just what kinds of data we are collecting and how we are processing it.
more here............http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/00002700.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter