Malware Protection Test Enterprise March 2021 – Testresult

This report is an excerpt of the Business Security Test 2021 (March – June). For more details, please click here.

Introduction

The Malware Protection Test assesses a security program’s ability to protect a system against infection by malicious files before, during or after execution. The methodology used for each product tested is as follows. Prior to execution, all the test samples are subjected to on-access scans (if this feature is available) by the security program (e.g. while copying the files over the network). Any samples that have not been detected by the on-access scanner are then executed on the test system, with Internet/cloud access available, to allow e.g.behavioral detection features to come into play. If a product does not prevent or reverse all the changes made by a particular malware sample within a given time period, that test case is considered to be a miss. For this test, 1,008 recent malware samples were used. 

Tested Products

• Acronis Cyber Protect Cloud with Advanced Security pack
  15.0 | 15.0
• Avast Business Antivirus Pro Plus
  20.10 | 21.2
• Bitdefender GravityZone Elite
  6.6 | 6.6
• Cisco Secure Endpoint Essentials
  7.3 | 7.3
• CrowdStrike Falcon Pro
  6.18 | 6.18
• Cybereason Enterprise
  20.2 | 20.2
• Elastic Endpoint Security
  7.11 | 7.11
• ESET PROTECT Entry with ESET PROTECT Cloud
  8.0 | 8.0
• FireEye Endpoint Security
  32.30 | 32.30
• Fortinet FortiClient with FortiSandbox & FortiEDR
  6.4 | 6.4
• G Data Endpoint Protection Business
  15.0 | 15.0
• K7 Enterprise Cloud Endpoint Security
  14.2 | 14.2
• Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business - Select
  11.5 | 11.5
• Malwarebytes EDR
  1.2 | 1.2
• Microsoft Defender Antivirus with Microsoft Endpoint Manager
  4.18 | 4.18
• Panda Endpoint Protection Plus
  8.0 | 8.0
• Sophos Intercept X Advanced
  10.8 | 10.8
• VIPRE Endpoint Protection Cloud
  12.0 | 12.0
• VMware Carbon Black Cloud
  3.6 | 3.6

Test Results

The following chart shows the results of the Business Malware Protection Test:

False positive (false alarm) test with common business software

A false alarm test done with common business software was also performed. All tested products had zero false alarms on common business software. 

	Malware Protection Rate	False Alarms on common business software
Avast, Bitdefender, G Data, VMWare	100%	0
Cybereason, FireEye, Panda, Vipre	99.9%	0
Acronis, CrowdStrike	99.8%	0
Cisco	99.7%	0
Kaspersky, Microsoft, Sophos	99.6%	0
ESET	99.3%	0
Fortinet	99.2%	0
K7, Malwarebytes	99.1%	0
Elastic	99.0%	0

 

In order to better evaluate the products’ detection accuracy and file detection capabilities (ability to distinguish good files from malicious files), we also performed a false alarm test on non-business software and uncommon files. This is provided mainly just as additional information, and the results do not affect the overall test score or the Approved Business Product award. The false alarms found were promptly fixed by the respective vendors. Organisations which often use uncommon or non-business software, or their own self-developed software, might like to consider these results, however.

FP rate	Number of FPs on non-business software
Very low	0 – 5
Low	6 – 10
Medium/Average	11 – 20
High	21 – 35
Very high	36 – 75
Remarkably high	> 75

	FP rate on non-business software
Acronis, Avast, Bitdefender, Cisco, ESET, G Data, Kaspersky,Microsoft, Vipre	Very low
VMWare	Low
CrowdStrike, Elastic	Medium
Malwarebytes	High
Fortinet, K7, Panda, Sophos	Very high
Cybereason, FireEye	Remarkably high

 

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