Posts tagged 'targeted attacks'

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.

Posted on October 19th, 2020 by Simon PG Edwards and tagged 2020, anti-virus, cybersecurity, endpoint, hacking, review, security testing, standards, targeted attacks, test results

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.

Posted on October 8th, 2020 by Simon PG Edwards and tagged 2020, anti-virus, cybersecurity, endpoint, hacking, review, security testing, standards, targeted attacks, test results

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.

Posted on August 10th, 2020 by Simon PG Edwards and tagged 2020, anti-virus, cybersecurity, endpoint, hacking, review, security testing, standards, targeted attacks, test results

The new website reflects the changes in the security industry over the last few years. We’ve listened hard to your feedback and watched as the industry’s needs have changed.

Clients, both security vendors and their customers, need increasingly customised analysis of products and their effectiveness. Which is the best? And what does ‘best’ really mean?

Posted on July 1st, 2020 by Simon PG Edwards and tagged 2020, cybersecurity, hacking, home users, investors, media, review, security testing, small businesses, standards, start-up, startup, targeted attacks, testing, website

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.

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Posted on May 11th, 2020 by Simon PG Edwards and tagged 2020, anti-virus, cybersecurity, endpoint, hacking, review, security testing, standards, targeted attacks, test results

World’s first in-depth, public test of security services vs. targeted attacks.

This email security test report is the product of two years of advanced threat research. We have worked with the security companies themselves and with their customers.  We have monitored what the bad guys have been doing and identified and replicated real-world email threats that affect everyone generally, and also specific types of businesses.

There is no report like this anywhere in the public domain. We are extremely proud to present the results here.

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Posted on April 3rd, 2020 by Simon PG Edwards and tagged 2020, cloud, email, hacking, internet, online security, phishing, review, security testing, standards, targeted attacks, test results

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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Posted on October 17th, 2019 by Simon PG Edwards and tagged 2019, hacking, security testing, targeted attacks, test results

Testing anti-breach products needs the full chain of attack.

Symantec’s endpoint detection and response offering, Symantec Endpoint Security Complete, is the first to face our brand new Breach Response Test.

Report now online.

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Posted on October 1st, 2019 by Simon PG Edwards and tagged 2019, hacking, security testing, targeted attacks, test results

SE Labs has been working at the core of the cyber security industry since its launch in 2016. We work with all of the major developers of IT security products as well as their main customers and even investors looking to increase their chances when betting on emerging technologies.

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Posted on September 4th, 2019 by Simon PG Edwards and tagged 2019, anti-virus, email, hacking, predictions, security testing, standards, startup, targeted attacks, test results

Over the last few years we have tested more than 50 different products using over 5,000 targeted attacks. And there’s news, both good and bad.

In this article we will look at the different tools available, how effective they are at helping attackers bypass anti-malware products and how security vendors have been handling this type of threat for over a year.

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Posted on August 29th, 2019 by Simon PG Edwards and tagged 2019, hacking, security testing, targeted attacks, test results