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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 16, 2021
Filed:
Aug. 29, 2018
Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);
Anuradha Joshi, Pune, IN;
Anand Darak, Pune, IN;
NortonLifeLock, Inc., Tempe, AZ (US);
Abstract
Communications received by a computing device originating from communicating entities that are members of the same group(s) as a user are tracked. A corresponding unique identifier is maintained for each such communicating entity, and an associated security rating is configured. A security analysis is performed on content received by the computing device from these communicating entities. The security ratings associated with given communicating entities are adjusted, responsive to given security analyses of content received by the computing device from these associated communicating entities, where such an analysis identifies security concerns. Responsive to the security rating of a specific communicating entity exceeding a predefined threshold, one or more security actions are taken to prevent the user of the computing device from being exposed to communication from that communicating entity.