Panda Corporate Quarantine: Leveraging the Community Knowledge to Reduce the Protection Gap

As has been frequently pointed out by the security industry, the number of malware samples circulating today has increased alarmingly. So much so, that security companies have had to rethink the current protection model to adapt it and remain one step ahead of malware creators. Panda Security detected this trend long ago, and in 2007 it had become a pioneer in the security sector with its Collective Intelligence, a new technology aimed at detecting ten times more malware with ten times less effort. This new approach improved their laboratories' processing of files and leverage of the community's knowledge thanks to a shift in mentality: the PC was no longer treated as an independent unit, isolated from the rest of computers in the world.