iTWire - Machine learning is a key technology for Symantec

Symantec vice president global portfolio and solutions product management for enterprise security Bhagwat Swaroop (pictured) has been involved in the process of setting a course for the company following the divestiture of Veritas. He told iTWire that Symantec's unified security strategy has four legs: Machine learning is "finding its way into everything we do," he said. Symantec started applying machine learning more than a decade ago, and now has a team of between 30 and 40 people working to apply it to autonomous anomaly detection. Rather than focusing on detecting specific attributes of malware, spam and so on (which the Bad Guys can learn to work around), the idea is to take a more dynamic approach by examining relationships instead. This give "top of the line" detection of new threats, Swaroop said, with the lowest rate of false positives.