There's a new kid on the block to join AV-Comparatives and AV-Test in testing security solutions: SE Labs.
"SE Labs aims to improve information technology security by assessing products and services designed to detect attacks, protect against intrusions or both.
... The company's founder is Simon Edwards, ex-Technical Director of security testing organisation Dennis Technology Labs and former Chairman of the Board of the Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization (AMTSO)."
- From https://selabs.uk/en/about
Times are early, and so far they have just published one report for Home AV products (Jan-Mar, 2016). They only tested 8 products (5 commercial suites, 3 free AVs -including Microsoft Security Essentials). The test platform was Windows 7/sp1 x64, fully updated, and it seems that each product was tested against 100 malicious threats (75 were URLs, 25 were targeted). Results (in PDF format) are here:
selabs.uk/.../january-march-2016-consumer.pdf
The methodology is well explained:
selabs.uk/.../endpoint-protection-methodology-1-0.pdf
Comments:
- I note that these tests were not vendor-sponsored, and there are no ads at the website.
- The "usual suspects" (the cream of the crop) rose to the top as expected, in line with recent results from AV-C and AV-Test.
- The free AV with the best results was Avast 11.x, which earned it the highest award: AAA. This agrees with recent real-world testing by AV-C, where Avast earned a highest "Advanced+" award for Q4, 2015. Unfortunately, Panda Free AV was not included in the SE Labs testing, and is not being tested this year at AV-C. (At AV-Test, Panda Free blocked slightly more 0-day threats than Avast in the Jan-Feb 2016 results for Win 7, and scored identical results on Win 10 testing. I consider that both these free AVs provide equivalent protection, based on similar results over time).
In short, this test site is worth book-marking.
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SE Labs: A New Security Testing Site
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