Effectiveness

Security effectiveness defines how a product behaves against real threats in IT and OT environments. OPSWAT applies real-world methods to assess a product’s effectiveness of responding to cyberthreats by validating the criteria identified in the table below.

Certification Level	Anti-malware Status Checks	Disk Encryption Status Checks
Gold	Validate the digital certificate of the anti-malware software Detect the status of the anti-malware real-time protection Detect the last time that the anti-malware definition was updated Detect the last time that the vendor issued an update for the definition	Validate the digital certificate of the anti-malware software Ensure that the disk encryption application protecting the device is not rogue
Platinum	Gold features + Detect the last time that the anti-malware application completed a full system scan Ability to turn on the anti-malware real-tirne protection in case it is off (provided that the anti-malware application is not compromised or corrupt] Ensure that the anti-malware application provides effective remediation Detect the last time that the endpoint anti-malware definition updated and compare it to the last time the anti-malware vendor provided an update from the anti-malware cloud or from its portal Frequent and timely ability to update the malware definitions Verify that the anti-malware application has a high score from at least one of the third-party test labs used by OPSWAT (AV-TEST, AV-Comparatives, Virus Bulletin, SE Labs and SKD Labs] Detect at least 55% of the top 10,000 daily threats identified by OPSWAT MetaDefender Cloud	Gold features + Ensure that the encryption software supports at least AES- 256 encryption Ensure that the encryption software supports full disk encryption Detect the status of the encryption as active or inactive Detect the encrypted volumes or locations

Certification Level

Anti-malware Status Checks

Disk Encryption Status Checks

Gold

Validate the digital certificate of the anti-malware software
Detect the status of the anti-malware real-time protection
Detect the last time that the anti-malware definition was updated
Detect the last time that the vendor issued an update for the definition

Validate the digital certificate of the anti-malware software
Ensure that the disk encryption application protecting the device is not rogue

Platinum

Gold features +

Detect the last time that the anti-malware application completed a full system scan
Ability to turn on the anti-malware real-tirne protection in case it is off (provided that the anti-malware application is not compromised or corrupt]
Ensure that the anti-malware application provides effective remediation
Detect the last time that the endpoint anti-malware definition updated and compare it to the last time the anti-malware vendor provided an update from the anti-malware cloud or from its portal
Frequent and timely ability to update the malware definitions
Verify that the anti-malware application has a high score from at least one of the third-party test labs used by OPSWAT (AV-TEST, AV-Comparatives, Virus Bulletin, SE Labs and SKD Labs]
Detect at least 55% of the top 10,000 daily threats identified by OPSWAT MetaDefender Cloud

Gold features +

Ensure that the encryption software supports at least AES- 256 encryption
Ensure that the encryption software supports full disk encryption
Detect the status of the encryption as active or inactive
Detect the encrypted volumes or locations

Certified antimalware applications must detect at least 55% of the top 10,000 daily threats identified in MetaDefender Cloud and receive a high-score from at least one reputable test lab.

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Test Lab High-score Requirements

AV-TEST	AV-Comparatives	Virus Bulletin	SE Labs	SKD Labs
Protection scores >5.0	File detection scores >98.5%	Virus Bulletin award (VB 100)	Total accuracy rating >=85%	On-demand testing score >=98.5%
Performance scores >4.0	Real-world protection scores >96.5%	VB 100 RAP score >80%	Protection score >85%	On-access testing score >98.5%

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