SE Labs Q3 2018 Endpoint Protection: Enterprise, Small Business, and Consumer

Please note:

This compliance page covers multiple component tests, for details of products covered by each component please see the individual summary pages under “Additional links”

Test Lab

SE Labs

Test Title

SE Labs Q3 2018 Endpoint Protection: Enterprise, Small Business, and Consumer

AMTSO Test ID

AMTSO-LS1-TP002

Platform

Windows

Vendor

AVAST, AVG, Avira, Bitdefender, CrowdStrike, ESET, F-Secure, G Data, Kaspersky, MalwareBytes, McAfee, Microsoft, Quick Heal, Sophos, Symantec, Trend Micro, Webroot

Publication date

2018-10-25

Statement from Test Lab

“September 2018 – Endpoint Protection Enterprise, Small Business, and Consumer SE Labs tests a variety of endpoint security products from a range of well-known vendors in an effort to judge which were the most effective. Each enterprise, small business, or consumer class product are exposed to the same threats, which are a mixture of targeted attacks using well-established techniques, public email, and web-based threats that are known or found to be live on the internet at the time of the test. The Test Reports indicate how effectively the products were at detecting and/or protecting against those threats in real time.”

AMTSO Standard compliance info

Notification issued

2018-06-19

Notification method

Publicly posted test plan, Contact list notification

Test plan

View test plan

Additional links

Test summary (consumer)
Test summary (small business)
Test summary (enterprise)

Commencement date

2018-06-25

Participants

These Vendors chose to adopt Participant status under the AMTSO Standard, gaining certain guaranteed rights in return for attestations.

“Included” Vendors

These Vendors did not chose to adopt Participant status under the AMTSO Standard, but may have engaged with the test lab in other ways.

Commentary dates

Commentary	Start date	End date
Phase 1 Commentary		2018-07-05
Phase 2 Commentary		2018-10-08

Commentary received

Vendor	Commentary phase	Comment
AVAST	Phase 2	“I haven’t seen any communication from the tester regarding this test.”
Avira	Phase 1	“My company has not voluntarily decided to participate in this test but agree that our product will be tested.”
CrowdStrike	Phase 2	“The dispute phase results of the test did not match what we expected after consulting with the tester.” “Disputes are still not resolved, and had long communication delays, as well as contradictory information from the tester. Current events affected the dispute process.” “The sample selection was much less diverse than expected for this test, consisting of large numbers of very similar attacks. This feedback was given to the tester as soon as possible.”
Symantec	Phase 2	“Symantec products are used in Default configuration mode in SELabs Public test.”
Webroot	Phase 2	“Dispute process still underway. Simon has been good about communicating the progress.”

SE Labs Q3 2018 Endpoint Protection: Enterprise, Small Business, and Consumer

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