AUSTIN, TX--(Marketwire - Feb 25, 2013) - NSS Labs today released three new 2013 Corporate End Point Protection Comparative Analysis Reports, which evaluated 11 enterprise level end point protection (EPP) products to test their effectiveness in blocking exploits and evasions. While only 3 of the 11 vendors -- McAfee, Kaspersky and Microsoft -- scored 100% across all 6 types of evasion testing, the average score across all vendors increased to an average of 87% in 2013 testing, compared to 27% in NSS' 2010 tests. In exploit testing, the top 3 vendors -- McAfee, Kaspersky and Symantec -- all scored over 90%, with an overall group average of 74.5%, also an improvement over 2010 test results.
Read the Reports:
NSS 2013 Corporate End Point Protection Comparative Analysis Report - Exploits
NSS 2013 Corporate End Point Protection Comparative Analysis Report - Evasions
NSS 2013 Corporate End Point Protection Comparative Analysis Report - Phishing
NSS vulnerability research has shown that the number of vulnerabilities disclosed in 2012 jumped 26% after a 5-year decline. Given the growing availability of exploit toolkits that automate the creation of evasions and exploits targeting newly-discovered and existing vulnerabilities, NSS recommends that enterprises -- especially those that have implemented a bring your own device (BYOD) policy -- fully understand the ability of their EPP solutions to adequately protect against key exploits and types of evasions.
NSS's research yielded several key conclusions:
Commentary: NSS Labs Research Director Randy Abrams
"The simple detection of malware is insufficient to cope with the multitude of attacks that companies face today; for example, Facebook and Apple have both recently fallen prey to Java exploits that resulted in breaches," said Randy Abrams, Research Director at NSS Labs. "With phishing and targeted drive-by attacks (ambiguously referred to as watering hole attacks) targeting users who may be outside perimeter defenses, endpoint protection products are often the last line of defense and criminals can -- and do -- use obfuscation techniques to evade malware detection. Most Endpoint protection products are dealing well with evasions for the exploits they detect, however there is still a lot of room for improvement in the detection of known exploit attempts and simply detecting exploits alone falls short of the protection needed by today's enterprises."
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