Security Firm Loses Bid to Suppress Unflattering Test Results

Enterprise security firm CrowdStrike this week lost a legal battle aimed at stopping independent security testing and informational house NSS Labs from publishing its findings. This includes sharing all discovered data in the public sphere.

CrowdStrike on Friday sought a temporary restraining social club and preliminary injunction in Delaware to stop NSS from publishing its full Advanced Endpoint Protection Group test. This includes an assessment of CrowdStrike'south Flacon product. The federal court denied CrowdStrike'south request on Monday, and NSS Labs on Tuesday published its test results.

The NSS report, which is but available to paying subscribers, examines products from Carbon Black, CrowdStrike, Cylance, ESET, Fortinet, Invincea, Kaspersky, Malwarebytes, McAfee, SentinelOne, Sophos, Symantec, and Trend Micro. The NSS calls it "the manufacture'southward virtually rigorous test to engagement of leading Advanced Endpoint Protection (AEP) solutions."

CrowdStrike disagrees with that assessment. In a blogpost Tuesday, the security firm accused NSS of "unlawfully accessing" its software and improperly testing its product. The visitor said information technology hadn't seen the test results only was simply "making a stand against what nosotros believe to be unlawful acquit."

"CrowdStrike values independent testing and we initially engaged NSS to conduct a private examination of our software," the company wrote. "We soon learned their methodologies were deeply flawed."

As one may exist able to surmise, CrowdStrike scored poorly on the examination. NSS gave CrowdStrike's product a "beneath average" rating of 73.2 pct in terms of "security effectiveness," according to a copy of the report obtained by PCMag. The testing business firm cautioned buyers from using the Falcon production, noting that it offers just "limited value" for the coin.

CrowdStrike, however, argued that NSS made "basic" testing errors, like labeling Firefox, Skype, and other legitimate software every bit malicious, "leaving u.s. with no conviction in their testing methodology or ability."

"Equally a result, we decided not to participate in a public test and expressly declined NSS' later request to bear public testing," CrowdStrike wrote. "After explicitly telling NSS on multiple occasions that they were prohibited from using our software for public testing, they colluded with a reseller and engaged in a sham transaction to access our software to conduct the testing."

Nigh Angela Moscaritolo

Angela Moscaritolo is PCMag's expert on fettle and smart home products. Teaching yoga for nearly 10 years has helped her in evaluating a range of connected wellness products including fitness trackers, center charge per unit monitors, rowers, smart scales, stationary bikes, strength training machines, treadmills, and more than. Angela as well tests smart home devices from her ranch in Florida, including air purifiers, kitchen appliances, and robot vacuums, just to name a few.

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