Quote:AV-Comparatives: Business Security Test March-April 2024 – Factsheet:

Introduction

This is a short fact sheet for our Business Main-Test Series, containing the results of the Business Malware Protection Test (September) and Business Real-World Protection Test (March-April). The full report, including the Performance Test and product reviews, will be released in July.

To be certified in July 2024 as an “Approved Business Product” by AV-Comparatives, the tested products must score at least 90% in the Malware Protection Test, with zero false alarms on common business software, and an FP rate on non-business files below the Remarkably High threshold. Additionally, products must score at least 90% in the overall Real-World Protection Test (i.e. over the course of four months), with less than fifty false alarms on any clean software/websites, and zero false alarms on common business software. Tested products must also avoid major performance issues (impact score must be below 40) and have fixed all reported bugs in order to gain certification.

Please note that the results of the Business Main-Test Series cannot be compared with the results of the Consumer Main-Test Series, as the tests are done at different times, with different sets, different settings, etc.

Tested Products

The following products were tested under Windows 10 64-bit and are included in this factsheet:

• Avast Ultimate Business Security
  23.12 | 24.2
  
• Bitdefender GravityZone Business Security Premium
  7.9 | 7.9
  
• CISCO Secure Endpoint Essentials
  8.2 | 8.2
  
• CrowdStrike Falcon Pro
  7.11 | 7.13
  
• Elastic Security
  8.12 | 8.13
  
• ESET PROTECT Entry with ESET PROTECT Cloud
  11.0 | 11.0
  
• G Data Endpoint Protection Business
  15.7 | 15.7
  
• K7 On-Premises Enterprise Security Advanced
  14.2 | 14.2
  
• Kaspersky Endpoint Security for Business – Select, with KSC
  12.4 | 12.4
  
• Microsoft Defender Antivirus with Microsoft Endpoint Manager
  4.18 | 4.18
  
• NetSecurity ThreatResponder
  3.5 | 3.5
  
• Rapid7 InsightIDR
  4.0 | 4.0
  
• SenseOn Platform with EPP
  6.7 | 6.7
  
• Sophos Intercept X Advanced
  2023.2 | 2023.2
  
• Trellix Endpoint Security (ENS)
  10.7 | 10.7
  
• VIPRE Endpoint Detection & Response
  13.1 | 13.1
  
• VMware Carbon Black Cloud Endpoint Standard
  4.0 | 4.0
  

The “ENS” version of Trellix in this test uses the erstwhile McAfee engine (now owned by Trellix), opposed to the “HX” version which uses the FireEye engine (McAfee Enterprise and FireEye were merged into Trellix in 2022).

Information about additional third-party engines/signatures used by some of the products: CISCO, G Data, Rapid7, SenseOn and VIPRE use the Bitdefender engine (in addition to their own protection features). VMware uses the Avira engine (in addition to their own protection features).
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