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Our tests are so close to real-life hacking that sometimes there is no practical difference between the two. We don’t usually expect to interact directly with cyber criminals, but it sometimes happens. In this case, our attacker was rude enough to spoil our initial analysis and to leave a sexually aggressive message for our team, too. SE Labs has been hacked!
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SE Labs has launched its network security performance testing service. Our reports will answer questions like, “How fast is this NGFW, really?” And, “How well does it protect, even when it’s very busy?”
We have worked with the major global vendors in this area for over a year, identifying and addressing gaps in existing network performance testing. We’ve focussed on ensuring that these new tests from SE Labs are fair, honest, reliable and accurate.
These tests are the first of a new breed.
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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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Bad guys help SE Labs keep its testing up to date.
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 with our first 2020 endpoint protection reports.
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. Then we would 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.
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Latest endpoint protection reports now online for enterprise, small business and home users.
These reports represent the state-of-the-art in computer security endpoint testing. If you want to see how the very best security products handle a range of threats, from everyday (but nevertheless very harmful) malware to targeted attacks, this is a great place to start.
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Testing anti-breach products needs the full chain of attack.
Kaspersky Lab should be congratulated, not only for engaging with this new and challenging test, but for submitting a product that performed so strongly against attacks that closely replicate advanced, nation-state level threats.
Its endpoint detection and response offering, Kaspersky Anti Targeted Attack Platform, is one of the very first to face our brand new Breach Response Test and it detected all of the attacks, while protecting against the vast majority of them.
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Latest reports now online for enterprise, small business and home users.
At SE Labs we spend our time testing things that are supposed to protect you but we also understand that securing your business, or your home network, is never as simple as installing one or more security products.
The risks are many and varied, but the ways to mitigate them are often most successful with a good dose of common sense as well as the appropriate technology. You just need to think things through carefully and make sensible decisions.
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Testing anti-breach products needs the full chain of attack. Symantec Endpoint Security Complete is the first endpoint detection and response offering to face our brand new Breach Response Test.
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