AV-Comparatives Releases Factsheet for March-April Enterprise Malware and Real-World Protection Tests
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INNSBRUCK, Austria, June 7, 2022 /PRNewswire=KYODO JBN/ --
AV-Comparatives, the independent ISO-certified security software evaluation
lab, has released the latest results from the Business Main-Test Series, which
evaluated a range of anti-virus products in business environments. This report
is brought in the interim of the full Performance Test and product reviews,
which will be released in July.
Link to test report:
https://www.av-comparatives.org/tests/business-security-test-march-april-2022-factsheet/
In business environments, it is usual for products to be configured by the
system administrator in accordance with vender's guidelines. With the
Enterprise Main-Test Series, AV-Comparatives invited all vendors to configure
their respective products towards an enterprise-first environment. The applied
settings are then used across all Enterprise Tests over the year.
AV-Comparatives has listed all relevant deviations from default settings.
The following products (latest version available at time of testing) were
tested under Windows 10 64-bit systems: Acronis, Avast, Bitdefender, Cisco,
CrowdStrike, Cybereason, Elastic, ESET, G Data, K7, Kaspersky, Malwarebytes,
Microsoft, Sophos, Trellix, VIPRE, VMware and WatchGuard.
Ransomware and phishing are currently the biggest cyber security threats to
enterprises. This makes choosing the right endpoint protection software even
more important."
-- Peter Stelzhammer, co-founder AV-Comparatives
The Real-World Protection Test examines the performance of leading antivirus
solutions to assess their capabilities in conditions experienced every day by
users around the world. The interim results of this the Real-World Protection
Test are based on a set of 373 live test cases (malicious URLs found in the
field), tested from the beginning of March until the end of April. Of the 18
vendors tested, nine received a 99% and above protection rate, with Bitdefender
and G Data earning the highest protection rate score of 99.7%.
The Malware Protection Test assesses a security program's ability to protect a
system against infection by malicious files before, during or after execution.
For this test, 1,007 recent malware samples were used. Of the 18 vendors
tested, 14 received a 99% or above Malware Protection Rate, with VMware,
Acronis, Bitdefender and Trellix scoring the highest.
To ensure that the tested programs do not protect the system at the expense of
high false-alarm rates, a false-positives test is also run for the Malware
Protection Test. False positives run on a scale of 'Remarkably High' to 'Very
Low'. A Low to Very-Low rate of false positives is considered anything below
15, with the highest number of false positives being greater than 125. From
this year onwards, products are required to have a false-positive rate on
non-business files below the 'Remarkably High' threshold in order to be
approved. As of the March-Aril Business Test, Acronis, ESET, Kaspersky,
Microsoft, Avast, Bitdefender, Cybereason, Sophos, VIPRE, VMware and WatchGuard
have scored either 'Low' or 'Very Low'.
The full report, including Performance Testing and product reviews, will be
released in July. To be certified in July 2022 as an 'Approved Business
Product' by AV-Comparatives, the tested products must score at least 90% in the
Malware Protection Test, with zero false alarms on common business software, a
rate below 'Remarkably High' for false positives on non-business files and must
score at least 90% in the overall Real-World Protection Test over the course of
four months, with less than one hundred false alarms on clean software/websites.
The full results of the March-April Business Test Factsheet are available
here:
https://www.av-comparatives.org/tests/business-security-test-march-april-2022-factsheet/
Peter, co-founder of AV-Comparatives, attends and speaks at #RSAC 2022, ping us
a mail if you want to meet in person. He is right back from "The Sphere
unconference", hosted by WithSecure.
About AV-Comparatives
AV-Comparatives are an independent organization offering systematic testing to
examine the efficacy of security software products and mobile security
solutions. Using one of the largest sample collection systems worldwide, it has
created a real-world environment for truly accurate testing. AV-Comparatives
offers freely accessible av-test results to individuals, news organisations and
scientific institutions. Certification by AV-Comparatives provides a globally
recognized official seal of approval for software performance.
Media contact: Peter Stelzhammer, +43 720115542, media@av-comparatives.org
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