CrowdStrike Fails In Bid To Stop NSS Labs From Publishing Test Results At RSA
A security vendor’s failed attempt to prevent a report containing details on its product’s capabilities from being released at the RSA conference in San Francisco this week has focused attention on the need for more widely accepted testing and validation services for security technologies.
The report is from NSS Labs, a company that bills itself as an independent security product-testing firm, which also sells its own threat protection platform. NSS recently conducted security tests on Advanced Endpoint Protection (AEP) products from 13 vendors and released the results of its testing at RSA this week.
Each of the products, according to NSS, was tested against multiple attack threat vectors for their resilience against evasion techniques, their tendency to generate false positives, and other metrics. The products were then graded for their overall security effectiveness and total cost of ownership per protected endpoint agent and assigned a rating of “Recommended,” “Security Recommended” or “Caution”.
