AV-TEST AV-TEST Awards 2019: Products Recognized for Outstanding IT Protection

[fabiobr]

Kaspersky and Norton best of the year (consumer)

AV-TEST Awards 2019: Products Recognized for Outstanding IT Protection

In 2019, the number of malware programs recorded by AV-TEST broke the sound barrier of one billion samples. Yet it is not only a question of sheer numbers; the sophisticated nature of new attacks is a cause for concern. Conversely, ten manufacturers of security solutions proved over an entire...

www.av-test.org

 

[Lenny_Fox]

What strikes me is that the corporate players with high market share don't participate in these tests.

What is your opinion about Microsoft Windows Defender (Windows 10)? (info posted by Andy Ful)

 

[Andy Ful]

I think that AV-TEST is not focused on corporations but rather on much smaller companies. The products + support tested by AV-TEST are much cheaper as compared to the top products in the FORRESTER WAVE report.

 

[Lenny_Fox]

Agree, but I think it is their typical 'PC gets infected' test case which is the cause (looking at the corporate vendors list) rather than the pricing of the products. AV-test does not test threat response and not include central management (usability is evaluated from end user perspective).

 

[Andy Ful]

Agree, but I think it is their typical 'PC gets infected' test case which is the cause (looking at the corporate vendors list) rather than the pricing of the products. AV-test does not test threat response and not include central management (usability is evaluated from end user perspective).

The threat response services are expensive and probably make sense in big corporations.

 

[virusesmaximum]

Bitdefender best <3