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Panda Security SL, formerly Panda Software, is a Spanish computer security company founded in 1990 by Panda's former CEO, Mikel Urizarbarrena, in the city of Bilbao, Spain. Initially centered on the production of antivirus software, the company has expanded its line of applications to include firewall applications, spam and spyware detection applications, cybercrime prevention technology, and other system management and security tools for businesses and home users. Panda Security competes in the antivirus industry against Avast!, Avira, Bitdefender, ESET, F-Secure, Kaspersky, McAfee, Sophos and Symantec among others. Panda's products include security tools for home users and enterprises, including protection against cybercrime and kinds of malware that can damage IT systems, such as spam, hackers, spyware, dialers and undesirable web content, as well as detection of WiFi intrusions. Its trademark technology, branded TruPrevent, is a set of proactive capabilities aimed at blocking unknown viruses and intruders. In 2007 Panda introduced a new collective intelligence security model, which utilizes grid computing for malware collection and detection. On November 2009, Panda unveiled its first Cloud-Based Security Services for Home Users and SMBs.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Panda Security Unveils First Cloud-Based Security Services for Home Users and SMBs )〕 == About the company == In 2005, Panda Security was the fourth largest antivirus vendor worldwide, with 3.2% of the marketplace.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Gartner Says Worldwide Antivirus Software Market Increased 13.6 Percent in 2005 )〕 The company, whose shares were previously 100% held by Urizarbarrena, announced on 24 April 2007 the sale of 75% of its shares to Southern European investment group Investindustrial and private equity firm Gala Capital.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Investindustrial and Gala Capital invest in Panda Software to undertake an important expansion plan and launch new IT security solutions globally )〕 On 30 July 2007 the company changed its name from Panda Software to Panda Security and Urizarbarrena was replaced by Jorge Dinares. Almost one year later, on 3 June 2008, amidst flagging sales, the board of directors voted to remove Dinares and replace him with Juan Santana, the CFO.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Panda Security )〕〔()〕 Santana resigned in September 2011 and was replaced by José Sancho as acting CEO.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Panda Security axes jobs, gets new chief exec )〕 Panda Security is rated by Gartner analysts as a technology innovator.〔()〕 Technological milestones include its pioneering launch of security systems, such as the SaaS concept (Security as a Service) or antivirus solutions that provide protection from the cloud (cloud computing) and are based on what Panda calls Collective Intelligence, a security model Panda introduced on the market in 2007.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Collective Intelligence )〕 According to its CEO, the main benefit this security model provides is that it allows automatic scanning of threats instead of the manual scans carried out by other companies,〔()〕 making it quicker and more efficient in malware detection. Panda Security has subsidiaries in the US, Germany, Austria, Belgium, the Netherlands, France, UK, Sweden, Finland, Spain and Japan. Additionally, it has franchises in another 44 countries. The US subsidiary has had five management turnovers since 2007〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Panda Security )〕 before moving its headquarters to Orlando, Florida in 2009,〔()〕 In late 2009 Panda Security created a partnership with Web of Trust to help fight against the war of viruses.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Panda Security and Against Intuition partner to offer WOT, the community-based safe surfing tool - WOT (Web of Trust) )〕 Panda was previously embroiled in a lawsuit with one of its channel partners, External Technologies, Inc. In 2013, Panda prevailed in its lawsuit against External Technologies, recovering a judgment in excess of $100,000 and prevailing on all claims asserted by External against Panda. On 3 August 2010, a new office location in Menlo Park, California was publicly announced by Panda's CEO via his Twitter account.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Juan Santana on Twitter: First day in the new Menlo Park office of Panda Security. It is going to be fun down here :-) )〕 In 2012, Panda Security was the tenth largest antivirus vendor worldwide, with 2.0% of the marketplace.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Antivirus Market Analysis: December 2012 )〕 PandaSecurity is one of the two Spanish companies that appear on the 2013 Truffle Top 100 ranking for software developers in Europe. Panda Security is one of the world's top ten leading software development and IT protection companies, according to the report from 2013 report ''La empresa española en el mundo'', which was carried out by the Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Cooperation. Highlights of its technological achievements include being a pioneer in the launch of security systems such as SaaS (Security as a Service) and an antivirus that allows for protection from the cloud (cloud computing). These landmarks are based on what Panda refers to as Collective Intelligence, a security model that Panda presented to the marketplace in 2007. The main benefit of this security model is that, according to Panda’s CEO, it allows for an automatic analysis of threats. This differs to the manual analysis of malware offered by rival companies, and allows Panda to offer a faster and more efficient detection of malware. Panda Security competitors in the antivirus industry include Symantec Corp, Kaspersky, F-Secure Corporation, McAfee Inc. y Trend Micro Inc., amongst others. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Panda Security」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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