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In the newly announced National Science and Technology Awards list, the “Key Technologies and Systems for Online Social Network Analysis”, researched and developed by Surfilter Network Technology Co., Ltd., won the second prize at the 2015 National Science and Technology Progress Award.

Perhaps you are not familiar with this low-key company based in Shenzhen, but its various scientific and technological achievements highlight its extraordinary technical strength. So far, Surfilter has provided products and services to more than 70,000 users in China and overseas, and has more than 40 national-level core technologies. It has also won more than 200 national and provincial-level awards, and has been hailed as a “network application auditing expert” by the industry.

Overcome security bottlenecks in WiFi network

Founded in May 2000, Surfilter is one of the earliest enterprises involved in the field of network information security in China. It is also the first network information security enterprise in China to be listed in the capital market.

Among the more than 40 national core technologies, the proposal of public WiFi network security solutions has garnered a good reputation in the industry.

According to the introduction by Zhou Yonglin, Chief Strategy Officer for Network Security at Surfilter, based on the industry-leading app recognition engine and Big Data anomaly behavior analysis engine, Surfilter has developed a complete solution for value-added services and security auditing of public WiFi networks, and has developed a WiFi coverage series product that possesses functions such as WiFi coverage, value-added services, security auditing and centralized control.

Moreover, to handle the problem of a large number of illegal and harmful audio and video content filling up the network, Surfilter has implemented a unique audio and video content recognition and classification technology, and developed an intelligent internet audio and video supervision platform for website detection and classification, content recognition retrieval, and illegal content control of online audio and video content. Surfilter provides a powerful technological tool for protecting youth and supervising social ethics.

Surfilter has established four R&D bases in Shenzhen, Beijing, Wuhan and Chengdu and Wuhan, and has participated in the formulation of several network information security industry standards organized by the Ministry of Public Security and the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of China. The company has independently developed more than 40 national core technologies, undertaken more than 30 major national R&D projects, has more than 130 industry access qualifications, won more than 200 national and provincial-level honors, and has been praised by the industry as a “network application auditing expert”.

Ranks firstLeader in multi-domain market share in China

The National Science and Technology Progress Award issued to Surfilter is not an accident for a company that has research and development at its core.

Zhou Yonglin told reporters that Surfilter successfully realized the transformation of research results and promotion of applications by cooperating with the National University of Defense Technology, Beijing Institute of Technology, Eefung Software and other universities and enterprises. However, behind this success are the numerous research and development personnel working at Surfilter, who have helped the company overcome many difficulties.

For example, the online social network Big Data analysis faces technical challenges such as PB-level data management, relationship cascading between tens of billions of nodes, data fragmentation, second-level processing, and group interaction in interaction of hundreds of millions of users. The successful research and development of this solution led to precise impact analysis and diversified emotion mining.

In the 2013 top-level TREC test in the field of international text retrieval, the company’s product recorded three of the world’s firsts. In November 2013, the appraisal committee consisting of 10 academicians including Zhou Zhongyi and Wei Zhengyao pointed out that the overall level of the company’s achievements are domestically leading and internationally advanced. The virtual community discovery technology, accurate multi-dimensional comprehensive individual influence analysis, and accurate 100-million user level diverse emotion mining and evolution analysis are at the internationally advanced level.

In addition to online social networking, Surfilter's network security business also covers government, military, finance, communications, broadcasting, education, energy and other industries, as well as more than 70,000 enterprise users. So far,At present, Surfilter is number the leader one in terms of market share in the security auditing of internet cafes and public internet sites, and supervision of online video and audio programs in China.