MRG Effitas launches Tempus, a real-time endpoint efficacy testing solution
The cybersecurity landscape evolves constantly and rapidly. It’s a real-time threat. So why isn’t digital security efficacy testing a real-time solution? Now it is, with Tempus. Tempus offers antimalware vendors continuous, real-time, independent efficacy testing against fresh In-the-Wild malware and [...]
The Rise of Phishing
As of early 2023, phishing is one of the main corporate IT security-related challenges. With this in mind, we are updating the 360° Efficacy Assessment for 2023 to include a phishing test and certification but what is it and how does it work.
MRG Effitas Wins AMTSO’s RTTL Award
AMTSO, the cybersecurity industry’s testing standard community, awarded MRG Effitas with this year’s RTTL “Contributor of the Year” award. AMTSO hands out the award every year to the member organization that shares threat intelligence data most steadily, at a high [...]
A New Age of Android Antivirus Testing
The team at MRG Effitas has been undertaking Android antivirus testing for many years. When we first started putting Android AVs to the test, we faced a lot of challenges. After much research and development, we devised a series of [...]
5 reasons why independent efficacy testing of antivirus brands is important
With security and data breaches hitting the headlines daily and ransomware attacks being cited as an immediate danger to businesses, effective cybersecurity and antivirus protection has never been more needed. With increased demand comes increased supply and there are now [...]
MRG Effitas joins #RansomAware
MRG Effitas is now part of the #RansomAware movement, a coalition working together to fight back against the onslaught of ransomware attacks.
MRG Effitas supports Machine Learning Security Evasion Competition
MRG Effitas is pleased once again to support the annual machine learning (ML) security evasion competition with the use of its intellectual property and technology. The competition, a collaboration between Microsoft, MRG Effitas, CUJO AI, VMRay and NVIDIA, encourages researchers to compete [...]
Online Banking/Browser Security Award Winners 2018/19
We are delighted to announce that the recipients of the MRG Effitas Online Banking/Browser Security Award 2018/19 are Kaspersky (Kaspersky Internet Security), ESET (ESET Internet Security), Bitdefender (Bitdefender Internet Security) and Avira (Avira Antivirus Pro).