Platinum Product Test Report Kaspersky Lab Anti ... - West Coast Labs

Kaspersky Lab Product Performance
Validation Testing & Certification
Comparative Product Testing
The comparative testing comprised a basic evaluation of each product’s malware
detection capability in a static test environment. WCL built a test suite of 100,000 live
malware samples* from its own independent resources that covered all appropriate
attack vectors.
Each solution was installed to a server running the appropriate and commonly
supported Operating System and software detailed in the next section of this report.
During installation, all default values were kept and, where a choice was required,
the course of action recommended by the solution and/or the attendant product
documentation was adhered to.
Each solution was updated to the latest available definition, engine, and signature
releases before a forensic image was taken and stored for later use. Updates were
allowed during the test period through any normal scheduled and automatically
enabled update mechanism present in the product, and a further forensic image
was taken on the last day of testing for each combination of products.
Each solution was tested against an appropriate test set extracted from the 100,000
samples mentioned above and made up of real-world, “solution capability specific”
samples taken from West Coast Labs’ collections, including samples received in the
West Coast Labs Global Honeypot Network. For example, the Exchange-based
solutions were tested against malware known to propagate over email. Test sets and
the methodologies were constructed so as to mirror the experience of a real-life
installation as far as possible and not to advantage any one vendor over the others.
*For a description of the malware used in this test programme, refer to Appendix 1 of this
report.
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