Following review and input from industry and end users, ICSA Labs published version 1.0 of the Advanced Threat Defense (ATD) - Email Certification Testing Criteria. The resulting version 1.0 set of criteria focuses on the essentials in an email security solution capable of defending against new malicious threats in email: detection effectiveness, detection timeliness, false positives, and logging.
It was once only a pipedream that a security product would be able to detect unknown, new malware. But as highlighted by ICSA Labs’ quarterly-recurring advanced threat defense (ATD) security certification testing, there is in fact a short list of security vendors that not only detect new threats, but do it well
As reported in the press, Ransomware was hot in 2016. That rings true - and is reflected in - ICSA Labs' standard ATD and ATD-Email testing. Received spam emails with Ransomware numbered upwards of 30,000 per day in both the Q2 and Q3 2016 test cycles and nearly 70,000 per day in the Q4 2016 test cycle. Read the full article.
