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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 16, 2019
Filed:
Jun. 30, 2016
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Michael Hart, Farmington, CT (US);
Kevin Alejandro Roundy, El Segundo, CA (US);
Shang-Tse Chen, Atlanta, GA (US);
Christopher Gates, Venice, CA (US);
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for providing security recommendations is described. In one embodiment, the method may include identifying a set of monitored customers. In some cases, each monitored customer may include one or more computing devices. The method may include identifying a first computing device of a monitored customer for evaluation, selecting a potential security product to install on the first computing device, and quantifying the ability of the monitored customer to detect or prevent malware incidents based at least in part on the selected potential security product.