The Magdeburg Institute AV-TEST gives 27 awards to 14 companies in the security industry for particularly good products for private users and companies. All test values from 2022 serve as a basis. There are a few surprises at the awards.
For many security manufacturers, it's time for a little drum roll: The AV-TEST laboratory has evaluated all test data for 2022 and determined the best products in their test category. Now it's time to award these software products with the internationally recognized award for IT security, the AV-Test Award.
Motto "AV-TEST Award 2022: Certified and award-winning IT security"
🔎 The AV-TEST Institute gives 27 awards to 14 companies in the security industry for the best products in 2022
This year, the AV-TEST Institute is giving a total of 27 awards to products from 14 well-known security companies. In addition to the previous test categories PROTECTION, PERFORMANCE and USABILITY for Windows as well as ANDROID SECURITY and MAC SECURITY, the first awards for ADVANCED PROTECTION under Windows will be added this year. AV-TEST honors products for end users and companies with the coveted award in all categories. Curtain up and free the stage for the winners.
An eventful year with malware, botnets, ransomware and APT groups
After cyber gangsters used the year 2021 with its many pandemic challenges, such as working from home or mobile offices, for attacks, some experts expected cyber attacks to subside in 2022. But the year 2022 developed completely differently: botnets pounced on vulnerabilities, distributed exploits or put a lot of servers under pressure with DDoS attacks. Many APT groups expanded the attacks with ransomware and refined the digital blackmail of their victims with perfidious methods. Spam and phishing also experienced a peak that was hardly to be expected.
Security systems and software solutions have been fighting the increasing cyber threats for many years and with great success. Because if you take a closer look why a private PC or that of a company became the victim of a cyber attack, then it was mostly negligence, such as false trust, forgotten updates or missing protection modules.
The winners of the awards
- Avast
- AVG
- Avira
- Bitdefender
- CrowdStrike
- G DATA
- Kaspersky
- McAfee
- Microsoft
- Norton
- PC Matic
- Symantec (Broadcom)
- Trend Micro
- Xcitium
About AV-TEST AV-TEST GmbH is an independent provider of services in the field of IT security and anti-virus research with a focus on the identification and analysis of the latest malware and its use in comprehensive comparative tests. The fact that the test data is up-to-date enables the quick-response analysis of new malware, the early detection of virus trends, and the investigation and certification of IT security solutions. The results of the AV-TEST Institute represent an exclusive information base and serve manufacturers for product optimization, specialist magazines for the publication of results and end customers for orientation in product selection.
The company AV-TEST has been operating in Magdeburg since 2004 and employs more than 30 people with profound specialist and practical experience. The laboratories are equipped with 300 client and server systems in which more than 2.500 terabytes of self-determined test data of harmful and harmless information are stored and processed. Further information can be found at https://www.av-test.org.