computer science

Invincea

Invincea is a computer science topic covered in the lgStudy science library. This page brings together a partial reference excerpt, illustrations, worked examples, real-world applications and a short study plan, so you can understand Invincea rather than just read about it. In short: Invincea, Inc. was a company that offered a suite of endpoint protection software products. Originally called Secure Command LLC, Invincea, Inc. was a venture-backed software company that provided malware threat detection, prevention, and analysis to stop advanced threats.

Key takeaways

Invincea belongs to computer science; place it in that map before memorising details.
Learn the definition first, then one example that makes the definition concrete.
Connect Invincea to a quantity you can measure, compute or draw — that is where exam questions come from.
Reproduce the core statement of Invincea from memory before moving on to harder problems.

Reference excerpt

Invincea, Inc. was a company that offered a suite of endpoint protection software products. Originally called Secure Command LLC, Invincea, Inc. was a venture-backed software company that provided malware threat detection, prevention, and analysis to stop advanced threats. It was acquired by Sophos in February 2017.

History The company was founded in 2006 by Dr. Anup Ghosh and was based in Fairfax, Virginia. Major investors included Dell Ventures, New Atlantic Ventures, Grotech Ventures, Aeris Capital, and Harbert Venture Partners. In 2012, Invincea used a $21 million grant from DARPA to improve the security of the US military's Android-based devices such as tablet PCs and smartphones. The Invincea software secured data from unauthorized access and protect devices from malicious applications. In June 2013, Dell announced an OEM partnership with Invincea and began shipping new endpoint security software dubbed "Dell Data Protection | Protected Workspace" on all of its commercial tablets and PCs worldwide. Dell Data Protection included Invincea container technology to put a shield - or virtualized container around each browser or application instance to protect it from the rest of the device and the network on which it resided. In December 2013, Invincea acquired Sandboxie for an undisclosed amount. Sandboxie was a pioneer in the Windows Containment and sandboxing market, also called “container” technology, and the acquisition was made to consolidate Sandboxie and Invincea's own container solution. In May 2016, Invincea launched X by Invincea. X by Invincea was a suite of products that protected endpoints by detecting and blocking known and unknown malware without signatures in real-time. X combined deep learning, an advanced form of machine learning, behavioral analysis and the legacy Invincea container technology, also known as isolation technology, in one lightweight agent. In February 2017, Invincea was acquired by Sophos, a security software and hardware company. In August that year, the subsidiary Invincea Labs was renamed Two Six Labs. In January 2018, Sophos announced that Invincea's deep learning technology would be integrated with the Sophos Intercept X endpoint security product. On April 16, 2018, Invincea announced the end of selling the X by Invincea suite of products. The Sophos products did not integrate with the Invincea container technology. Support and maintenance remained available under existing contracts through December 31, 2019, at which point, support and maintenance for Invincea products ceased. Sophos did not include the Invincea container technology in Intercept X. For that reason, Sandboxie was released as a free tool, and Sophos released its container technology to be open source.

References

External links Official website at the Wayback Machine (archived 2018-02-25)

Worked examples

Example 1 — a first encounter with Invincea

Start with the simplest possible case. Write down what Invincea claims or describes in one sentence, then invent the smallest concrete situation in which that sentence is true. In computer science, the smallest case is usually a single object, a single equation or a single measurement. Check that every symbol or term in your sentence has a meaning in that case.

Example 2 — changing one variable

Take the situation from Example 1 and change exactly one quantity: double it, halve it, or set it to zero. Predict what should happen to Invincea before you calculate. Comparing your prediction with the result is the fastest way to find out whether you understand the idea or only the words.

Example 3 — an exam-style question

Typical questions about Invincea ask you to (a) state it precisely, (b) apply it to given data, and (c) explain a limitation. Practise writing all three answers in under five minutes; the third part is what separates a full-mark answer from an average one.

Applications of Invincea

In research: Invincea appears in computer science research whenever the underlying quantities have to be modelled precisely. Papers usually cite it as a starting assumption and then explore where it breaks down.
In technology and industry: Engineering practice reuses Invincea in design rules, simulations and safety margins. Knowing the idea lets you read a specification sheet and understand why the numbers look the way they do.
In the classroom: Invincea is common in secondary-school and first-year university syllabi. It links to neighbouring topics 2006 establishments in Virginia, American companies established in 2006, Companies based in Fairfax, Virginia, so understanding it makes those chapters shorter.
In everyday life: Look for Invincea outside the textbook — in sport, cooking, traffic, electronics or the sky above you. An example you found yourself is remembered far longer than one you were given.

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How to study Invincea in 20 minutes

Read the reference excerpt below once, without taking notes.
Close the page and write down what Invincea means in your own words.
Compare your version with the excerpt and mark what you missed.
Work through the three examples above with pen and paper.
Explain Invincea out loud to somebody else — or to Teacher Smith in the lgStudy chat.

Frequently asked questions

What is Invincea in simple terms?

Why does Invincea matter?

Because it connects several computer science ideas at once: it gives you a definition you can apply, a quantity you can calculate, and a way to check whether a result is plausible.

How should I study Invincea?

Read the excerpt, restate it from memory, then work through the examples and applications listed on this page. The five-step study plan above takes about twenty minutes.

What does this page cover?

It gives you a compact reference excerpt plus original lgStudy explanations, examples, applications and study material on Invincea.