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2020: year of the breach

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December 28, 2020

Solid endpoint protection is a bare minimum

If it feels like new breaches are reported every week, it’s because they are. Attackers are taking no prisoners and are successfully breaking into businesses, political organisations and systems belonging to individuals. Most believe they have solid endpoint protection in place.

It’s not like a bank robbery, where the bad guys have to spend lots of time and effort to put themselves at physical risk for the sake of one big score. Ransomware extortions can happen in parallel. Criminals sit in front of screens watching piles of victims become compromised.

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How reliable are security product tests?

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SE Labs Team

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November 25, 2020

And how can you tell?

If you are in charge of protecting an organisation, you need good data to help make buying decisions. The consequences of simply trusting internet reviews, vendor sales pitches and instinct are extremely serious. So which security product tests are the best?

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Hands up, who’s been hacked?

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October 19, 2020

Get ahead in the game that never ends

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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Next-gen testing for next-gen security products

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SE Labs Team

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August 10, 2020

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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Strong protection in uncertain times

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SE Labs Team

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May 11, 2020

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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Testing deeper, wider and better

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SE Labs Team

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December 23, 2019

Bad guys evolve; defenders evolve; testing (should) evolve

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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Breach Response Test: Kaspersky Anti Targeted Attack Platform

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SE Labs Team

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October 17, 2019

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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Anti-malware is just one part of the picture

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SE Labs Team

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October 4, 2019

Beefing up security advice with facts

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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Breach Response Test: Symantec Endpoint Security Complete

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SE Labs Team

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October 1, 2019

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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The best security tests keep it real

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SE Labs Team

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July 17, 2019

The best security tests are realistic. That’s why it’s important not to try to be too ‘clever’
The best security tests are realistic. That’s why it’s important not to try to be too ‘clever’

Latest reports now online for enterprise, small business and home users.

Realism is important in testing, otherwise you end up with results that are theoretical and not a useful report that closely represents what is going on in the real world. One issue facing security testing that involves malware is whether or not you connect the test network to the internet.

Category: Test Results

2020: year of the breach

Solid endpoint protection is a bare minimum

How reliable are security product tests?

And how can you tell?

Hands up, who’s been hacked?

Get ahead in the game that never ends

Next-gen testing for next-gen security products

Strong protection in uncertain times

Testing deeper, wider and better

Bad guys evolve; defenders evolve; testing (should) evolve

Breach Response Test: Kaspersky Anti Targeted Attack Platform

Anti-malware is just one part of the picture

Beefing up security advice with facts

Breach Response Test: Symantec Endpoint Security Complete

The best security tests keep it real

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