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Tuesday, April 26, 2011

Language Recognition

Last week Blue Coat announced that it added Norwegian to its list of languages it recognizes when analyzing websites for malware and categorization in its Webpulse system. It brings Blue Coat to 18 languages recognized by Webpulse, and 50 languages categorized in their database.

Language recognition doesn't seem to be something very many security firms tout as a feature, so I'm wondering how important is it that your security company recognize Norwegian, or even Chinese, Spanish or German? My guess is while the individual language may not be important to you, the ability to classify sites written in different languages is.

As a side note, Blue Coat's also the company that some time ago claimed they recognized Klingon as a language in their threat detection and web site classification modules.

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