The AMTSO debate

Posted By: Sorin Mustaca August 17, 2010

Since I heard the first time about AMTSO (Anti Malware Testing Standards Organization), in one of the VB Conferences (I think two years ago), I asked myself whether or not this association makes sense. I’ve heard later on that Avira is also part of it.
But, I simply forgot about this issue.

I recently started to hear a lot of noise about this issue, saying that AMTSO represents only the interests of the AV Industry and not those of the user getting infected.
I don’t have yet an opinion, but as soon as I have one, I’ll post it 😉

Here are links with PROs and CONs arguments:

PROs:

Joint Blog By amtso

http://www.avertlabs.com/research/blog/index.php/2010/07/07/testing-and-accountability/

http://community.norton.com/t5/Norton-Protection-Blog/Testing-and-Accountability/ba-p/247711

http://www.securelist.com/en/blog?weblogid=2224

http://pandalabs.pandasecurity.com/testing-and-accountability/

http://www.eset.com/blog/2010/07/07/testing-and-accountability

AVIEN blog

CONs:

The AMTSO Melee

Anti Malware Testing Standards Organization: a dissenting view

AMTSO: a serious attempt to clean up anti-malware testing; or just a great big con?

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Sorin Mustaca

Sorin Mustaca, (ISC)2 CSSLP, CompTIA Security+ and Project+, is working since year 2000 in the IT Security industry and worked between 2003-2014 for Avira as Product Manager for the known products used by over 100 million users world-wide. Today he is an independent IT Security Consultant focusing on Cybersecurity, secure software development and security for IoT and Automotive. He is also running his personal blog Sorin Mustaca on Cybersecurity and is the author of the free eBook Improve your security .