In this blog post our CTO Stefan Dumitrascu explains some of the challenges behind our newly launched Breach Response testing, why things are now different (better) and the background on how we came to make some of our decisions.
One of our most exciting projects this year has been the Breach Response testing programme. In this article we explain what has changed since last year, and why.
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Have you ever been hacked? You, personally, or your business? If your answer is, “no” it would be interesting to know how you can be so sure.
I once spoke to a marketing manager at a global anti-malware company who claimed that his PC had never been infected by malware, despite him not using anti-virus. How would be know? Not all malware announces its presence as clearly as, say ransomware. “I just would,” he claimed.
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Well, 2020 was an interesting year! Some of the largest and newest security companies were bought and sold…
The world descended into chaos thanks to a biological virus (while digital viruses continue to wreak havoc)…
And SE Labs launched a new website and started using machine learning in its testing.
We appreciate some of these things are more important than others…
However, in the face of adversity we must all carry on and we are proud to announce our second annual report, in which we review the unprecedented year of 2020, announce our annual awards winners and discuss testing like hackers.
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Bad guys help SE Labs keep its testing up to date
Latest endpoint protection reports now online for enterprise, small business and home users.
For the first time in our endpoint protection tests we’ve seen a strong overall performance from both well-established anti-malware brands and newer entrants to the market.
Vendors such as FireEye and Crowdstrike are well-known and respected brands in the security world, but they are relatively new compared to Symantec, McAfee and even Microsoft. Microsoft has not promoted its anti-malware software until quite recently.
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A hacker mentality is keeping (computer) virus testing on track.
Latest endpoint protection reports now online for enterprise, small business and home users.
This is the first in our series of 2020 endpoint protection reports. And it is unique, for all the usual reasons but also a new one.
We would normally highlight the latest new threats that we’ve discovered on the internet and discuss how we test them against the security software you use in your business and at home in the most realistic ways possible. And we’ve done that. But these reports are different to any we’ve produced before, for another reason.
Archive of security product and service test results
