Re: idea

["Paul Ferguson" <fergdawgster () gmail com>]

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On Sat, Jan 3, 2009 at 12:39 PM, Tomas L. Byrnes <tomb () byrneit net> wrote:

> The concept of distributed/cloudAV has been worked on by the University
> of Michigan crew that did the fundamental work that led to Arbor
> Networks:
>
> http://www.eecs.umich.edu/fjgroup/cloudav/
>
> It's similar in detection concept to Sunbelt's new product in that it
> uses multiple engines, and to the current discussion in that it is a
> distributed system.

Admittedly, this is also something we (Trend Micro) started working on a
couple of years ago, especially the "distributed protection" components in
"the cloud" -- we were one of the first to deploy. Not meant to be a
marketing point, but FYI:

http://itw.trendmicro.com/smart-protection-network/

- - ferg

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