Wall Street Journal awarded its 2010 Technology Innovation Award to Carey Nachenberg

The Wall Street Journal has awarded its 2010 Technology Innovation Award (Computer Security Category) to a technology that was invented by Carey Nachenberg, CSD adjunct assistant professor.

This new technology (currently called Quorum) examines the software running on millions of computers to spot possible threats. Based on patterns that reflect a program's source, age, prevalence and other characteristics, a "reputation rating" is assigned to every piece of software that Quorum comes across. This new technology is detecting about 10 million new threats a month that are invisible to traditional security methods.