AV-Comparatives has published its December 2021 Business Security Test and awarded 19 products Approved Business Product accreditation.
The Business Security Test is the most comprehensive examination of business security solutions on the market. To qualify as an Approved Business Product, antivirus solutions must achieve a 90% Malware Protection Test score with zero false positives and a 90% Real-World Protection Test score with fewer than a hundred false positives.
Certification by AV-Comparatives
Summary report of the Business IT Security Tests 2021 - Products (Image: AV-Comparatives).
To earn AV-Comparatives certification, the tested products must also have no major performance issues, have an Impact Score of less than 40, and fix all reported bugs. The 19 security solutions that received an Approved Business Product Award are: Acronis, Avast, Bitdefender, Cisco, CrowdStrike, Cybereason, Elastic, ESET, FireEye, Fortinet, G Data, K7, Kaspersky, Malwarebytes, Microsoft, Panda , Sophos, VIPRE and VMware.
Peter Stelzhammer, co-founder of AV-Comparatives, says: “Companies looking for antivirus and endpoint security solutions should use our test as a guide to the best products on the market. The threat landscape is constantly changing, so understanding the performance of security solutions is important to protect organizations from external threats.”
The current Business Main Test includes the results of the Business Real-World Protection Test conducted between August and November 2021, as well as the September 2021 Business Malware Protection Test and the November 2021 Business Performance Test. It also includes Product Reviews.
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About AV-Comparatives
AV-Comparatives is an independent AV test laboratory based in Innsbruck, Austria, and has been publicly testing computer security software since 2004. It is certified according to ISO 9001: 2015 for the area of "Independent tests of anti-virus software". It also has EICAR certification as a "Trusted IT Security Testing Lab".