Testing Testing: Anti-Malware Evaluation for the Enterprise

Anti-malware software remains an essential defensive component for most enterprises, understandably anxious to get the right balance of affordability and effectiveness. Unfortunately, journalists, consumer groups and security amateurs keep finding ever more creative and inappropriate ways to test detection focused software. This paper, attempts to address a number of core issues such as Reading between the lines of comparative reviews, Anti-virus/malware against the world, Technical aspects of testing, Evaluating the evaluators: sound versus unsound resources and The pros and cons of DIY testing: how practical is it?.