please help improve it or discuss these issues on the talk page . learn how and when to remove these template messages this article contains content that is written like an advertisement . please help improve it by removing promotional content and inappropriate external links and by adding encyclopedic content written from a neutral point of view . april 2016 learn how and when to remove this template message this article reads like a news release or is otherwise written in a promotional tone . please help by either rewriting this article from a neutral point of view or by moving this article to wikinews . when appropriate blatant advertising may be marked for speedy deletion with db spam . april 2016 learn how and when to remove this template message panda security sl type private industry computer software founded 1990 headquarters bilbao and madrid spain products antivirus firewall spam and spyware detection security and management tools website pandasecurity.com panda security is a spanish company specialized in creating it security solutions . initially centered on creating antivirus software the company has since expanded its line of business to advanced cybersecurity services with technology for preventing cybercrime . their patented technology truprevent a set of proactive capabilities aimed at blocking unknown viruses ; and the collective intelligence model the first system that can automatically detect analyze and classify malware in real time ; have been the precursors to the new adaptive defense security model that assures the complete classification of all active processes on the system . panda security products include security solutions for both businesses and home users and provide protection tools for systems networks emails and other private information for system management and control . contents 1 about the company 2 products 2.1 truprevent 2.2 adaptive defense 3 see also 4 references 5 external links about the company edit in 2005 panda security was the fourth largest antivirus vendor worldwide with 3.2 % of the marketplace . 1 in november 2015 opswat measured panda security s market share to be 3.6 % . 2 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 . 3 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 . 4 5 santana resigned in september 2011 and was replaced by jos sancho as acting ceo . 6 panda security is rated by gartner analysts as a technology innovator . 7 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 . 8 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 9 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 . citation needed additionally it has franchises in another 44 countries . the us subsidiary has had five management turnovers since 2007 10 before moving its headquarters to orlando florida in 2009 11 in late 2009 panda security created a partnership with web of trust to help fight against the war of viruses . 12 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 . 13 on 3 august 2010 a new office location in menlo park california was publicly announced by panda s ceo via his twitter account . 14 in 2012 panda security was the tenth largest antivirus vendor worldwide with 2.0 % of the marketplace . 15 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 espa ola 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 . in 2014 panda security was distributed by tritech distribution limited in hong kong . 16 in 2015 panda security obtained the best rate protection in the real world protection test by av comparatives . 17 panda security awarded company of the year 2016 by leading spanish newspaper el suplemento for innovative work growth outreach and history . 18 products edit truprevent edit this section needs additional citations for verification . please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources . unsourced material may be challenged and removed . january 2009 learn how and when to remove this template message malware statistics march 16 2011 panda security truprevent which was introduced in 2003 is a set of technologies developed by panda security for proactive protection in home and corporate computers as opposed to traditional antivirus products which provide reactive protection . truprevent technologies offers generic protection against many of the techniques most commonly used by new malware and policies and rules are developed based on the new vulnerabilities that appear daily . due to the vast amount of new malware that appears every day in 2007 pandalabs detected an average of 3 000 new samples clarification needed a day 19 which had risen to 35 000 in 2009 panda security developed a protection system to automatically detect scan and classify malware in real time . this security model presented in 2007 was called collective intelligence and is the basis of the new solutions that offer security from the cloud . this technology is implemented in its 2009 and 2010 antivirus products for home users and in the new panda cloud antivirus which the company has classified as the first antivirus in history that provides protection from the cloud 20 these antivirus products only include the information about malware samples that cause most infections at any given moment while the rest of the information is stored in panda s knowledge base . the antivirus connects to this knowledge base whenever necessary . this system is designed to offer real time protection against thousands of new malware samples use the community knowledge base to offer further protection and not to consume computer resources . 21 adaptive defense edit the adaptive defense solution breaks the traditional security model by basing its security model on black lists and white lists . this represents a new concept built on the basis of behavior processes not on previous classification like it was up until now . this advanced system is based on the principles of artificial intelligence and big data in order to monitor classify and analyze all running processes . this assures the proactive detection of strange behaviors and advanced threats from cryptolocker to zero day attacks while providing features for response and remediation . see also edit companies portal computer security portal antivirus software comparison of antivirus software comparison of computer viruses internet security panda cloud antivirus references edit gartner says worldwide antivirus software market increased 13.6 percent in 2005 . anti malware vendor and encryption product market share report november 2015 . investindustrial and gala capital invest in panda software to undertake an important expansion plan and launch new it security solutions globally . panda security . 1 archived 22 february 2011 at the wayback machine . panda security axes jobs gets new chief exec . 2 dead link collective intelligence . 3 dead link panda security . 4 archived 5 april 2010 at the wayback machine . wot services ltd. panda security and against intuition partner to offer wot the community based safe surfing tool wot web of trust . external technologies inc. v. panda distribution inc. d b a panda security usa et al. . juan santana on twitter first day in the new menlo park office of panda security . it is going to be fun down here . antivirus market analysis december 2012 . panda security distributor in hk panda security hk . www.ttdist.com . retrieved 2015 12 09 . panda security detects and blocks 99.9 % of threats mediacenter panda security . mediacenter panda security . retrieved 2015 12 09 . winners at awards gala companies from different sectors will receive the award on 6 may at the hotel westin palace in madrid . . the amount of new malware that appeared in 2007 . retrieved 2 september 2009 . dead link panda cloud antivirus the first free cloud based antivirus 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