- Jan 12, 2021
- 4
I tried searching for this type of question and was surprised when I couldn’t find it being asked before. Perhaps I missed it but here it is… Just what the title says: How do you pick security products? Which independent testers do you trust? Why do you trust them? Etc.
I took a peak at AV-TEST and was surprised to see how many products were certified and how often products are given 6/6 ratings, almost always in all 3 categories as well. Then I found a blog from Eugene Kaspersky which seems to explain the issue with AV-TEST. The only other organization I know of is AV-Comparatives and though I haven’t heard anything bad about them, I can’t help but wonder if there are other resources I could look at as well?
At the moment I’m wondering if other security products are worth using on MacOS and/or ChromeOS since they both have so many built-in security features. But with the recent major MacOS 0-day that was discovered, I wonder if perhaps third-party security solutions might’ve helped with that in some way or another? (such as preventing users from even accessing said websites in the first place, or possibly even detecting the malware once it bypassed MacOS security)
I took a peak at AV-TEST and was surprised to see how many products were certified and how often products are given 6/6 ratings, almost always in all 3 categories as well. Then I found a blog from Eugene Kaspersky which seems to explain the issue with AV-TEST. The only other organization I know of is AV-Comparatives and though I haven’t heard anything bad about them, I can’t help but wonder if there are other resources I could look at as well?
At the moment I’m wondering if other security products are worth using on MacOS and/or ChromeOS since they both have so many built-in security features. But with the recent major MacOS 0-day that was discovered, I wonder if perhaps third-party security solutions might’ve helped with that in some way or another? (such as preventing users from even accessing said websites in the first place, or possibly even detecting the malware once it bypassed MacOS security)