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Date of Patent:
Jun. 05, 2018

Filed:

Aug. 27, 2015
Applicant:

Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);

Inventors:

Petrus Johannes Viljoen, Manhattan Beach, CA (US);

Douglas Schlatter, Playa Vista, CA (US);

Carey Nachenberg, Manhattan Beach, CA (US);

Andrew Gardner, Roswell, GA (US);

Assignee:

Symantec Corporation, Mountain View, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 29/06 (2006.01); G06F 21/56 (2013.01); G06N 99/00 (2010.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04L 63/1416 (2013.01); G06F 21/56 (2013.01); G06N 99/005 (2013.01);
Abstract

The disclosed computer-implemented method for improving the classification accuracy of trustworthiness classifiers may include (1) identifying a set of training data that is available for training trustworthiness classifiers used to classify computing resources as clean or malicious, (2) selecting, based at least in part on a characteristic of a specific organization, a subset of training data from the set of training data that is available for training trustworthiness classifiers, (3) training a trustworthiness classifier for the specific organization using the subset of training data selected based at least in part on the characteristic of the specific organization, and then (4) applying the trustworthiness classifier to at least one computing resource encountered by the specific organization to classify the computing resource as clean or malicious. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.


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