MRG Effitas: Android 360 Degree Assessment Programme Q3 2019

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Introduction

MRG Effitas is an independent IT security research company, with a heavy focus on applied malware analysis. Besides conventional AV efficacy testing and providing samples to other players in the AV field, we regularly test APT detection appliances and enterprise grade IT security products, simulating realistic attack scenarios.

Android devices are used by around 2.3 Billion people around the globe. As the overall platform philosophy allows an easy-to-opt in platform with no mandated central application distribution platform, Android based malware has been on a constant rise since the early Gingerbread days. As a result, the market for Android AVs is heaving with applications that promise loud tag lines with ‘100% security’. A quick search on the Play Store for Antivirus products reveals literally hundreds of results –our test aims to help user decisions with a complex test regime with both in-the-wild and artificially crafted simulator samples and results that reflect a real-life efficacy of our test participants.

Our Mission

In providing quarterly certifications, the MRG Effitas 360Programme is the de facto standard by which security vendors, financial institutions and other corporations can attain the most rigorous and accurate determination of a product’s efficacy against current financial malware attacks.

We test over twelve months beginning in Quarter 2 and ending in Quarter 1, at which point (or shortly after) we publish our results. As with all of our certification testing, we work with vendors, offering feedback and helping them to improve their product as we go.Products that pass all tests during a quarter will receive the MRG Effitas certification for Android efficacy protection.
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