Carey Nachenberg

Symantec Fellow, VP
Symantec Corporation

Responsible for setting the technical vision and direction for Symantec’s Advanced Research and Development division. The Fellow title is the senior most technical title at Symantec, and is held by 5 out of 15,000 employees.

Awards
Symantec “Star Award” winner (Symantec’s highest engineering award)
UCLA School of Engineering and Applied Science Community Service Award Voted top UCLA Professor, UCLAPROFESSORS.COM 3/5/2001

Patents
17 patents granted by the US Patent Office, including:
6,971,019 Histogram-based virus detection
6,851,057 Data driven detection of viruses
6,651,249 Multi-tiered incremental software updating
6,357,008 Dynamic heuristic method for detecting computer viruses using decryption exploration and evaluation phases
6,349,311 Storage of reverse delta updates
6,230,316 Patching rebased and realigned executable files
6,167,407 Backtracked incremental updating
6,094,731 Antivirus accelerator for computer networks
6,067,410 Emulation repair system
6,052,531 Multi-tiered incremental software updating
6,021,510 Antivirus accelerator
5,999,723 State-based cache for antivirus software
5,964,889 Method to analyze a program for presence of computer viruses by examining the opcode for faults before emulating instruction in emulator
5,854,916 State-based cache for antivirus software
5,826,013 Polymorphic virus detection module
5,765,030 Processor emulator module having a variable pre-fetch queue size for program execution
5,696,822 Polymorphic virus detection module