Ubiquity is the first technology to use the collective intelligence of more than 100 million computer systems – Symantec’s participating customers – and the data from Symantec’s Global Intelligence Network to derive a highly accurate safety rating for virtually every single software file – good, bad and those in between – in existence. Ubiquity currently has safety ratings on more than 1.5 billion unique applications, making it one of the largest databases of its kind. This enables Ubiquity to address today’s explosion of targeted, mutating malware, including threats generated on-the-fly and targeting only a single user across the globe.
To find out more about the program’s impact on teachers and students, Microsoft News Center (MNC) spoke to Jennifer Tyndall, a business and technology teacher at Spring Creek High School in Seven Springs, N.C., and Miranda Hill, one of her former students.
The need for this specialized talent is being fueled by an increased use of business analytics by companies to better understand the explosion of data generated online, via social networks and mobile devices, or through real time sensors. With so much data residing within, and shared across, these digital sources, organizations are seeking new ways to understand, measure, act and even predict outcomes based on customer and social sentiment.
