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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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