West Coast Labs Grants Checkmark Platinum Product Award to Prevx 3.0 for Completing Real-Time Testing Program
security specialist Prevx has today announced it has received the Platinum
Product Award for participation of its Prevx 3.0 anti-malware solution in the
West Coast Labs Real-Time Testing program and Checkmark Certification
program. Prevx 3.0 is the first solution capable of combining faster
scanning, a super-light footprint and full interoperability with other
anti-malware products to receive this award. Following completion of these
two programmes, West Coast Labs awarded Prevx 3.0 its Platinum Product Award,
including Anti-Virus Desktop, Anti-Trojan, Anti-Spyware, Anti-Malware and
Anti-Malware Dynamic certifications. Prevx 3.0 has passed all the appropriate
certification criteria. This includes Anti-Malware Dynamic certification,
which is constructed to validate products using real-world methodologies that
meet the modern day demands for anti-malware testing. The solution is also
enrolled in West Coast Labs’ Real-Time Testing program, where it is a
consistently high performer.
The Platinum Product Award was gained after Prevx 3.0 completed the
Checkmark Certification program and engaged in the Real-Time Testing program.
West Coast Labs pointed to Prevx’s thorough malware tracking system as
another key reason for its recent accreditation.
research, West Coast Labs, said: “Traditionally, when defences are used
alongside each other, they eat into CPU, cause PCs to crash and ultimately
inhibit effective malware security. With the increasing sophistication of
cyber crime, innovation in anti-malware is vital. Prevx 3.0′s solution
identified and remediated infections effectively.”
malware research and signature-based technologies has given cyber criminals
the upper hand, resulting in increased security breaches and longer periods
of exposure to infection for both consumers and business. Our inverted
architecture, leveraging cloud-based AV with community wide, automated
real-time threat analysis provides proven speed of detection and scalability,
which significantly helps to combat today’s more targeted and persistent
threats. The size, speed and range of capabilities offered by our Prevx 3.0
agent technology and its demonstrable interoperability with other mainstream
security solutions is unmatched. The West Coast Labs Checkmark Platinum
Product Award of Prevx 3.0 underlines the merit of our unconventional
approach to addressing the modern-day malware problem. We are extremely
honoured to have received such a high accolade from a worldwide leader in
anti-malware testing.”
About Prevx
Prevx specializes in internet and PC security leveraging the world’s
largest cloud-based threat database with knowledge of more than 140 million
software applications and 20 million known malicious objects, supported by
the most powerful automated malware research operation. We target the
multiple faces of e-crime by helping customers boost malware defences with a
layered security solution that is based on a real-time and sustainable
anti-malware model for detecting and removing security threats. Based in
in 2005. For more information, please visit our website: http://www.prevx.com.
About West Coast Labs Checkmark Certification
Checkmark is one of the world’s leading certification systems for
information security products and services. This highly regarded
accreditation program provides a level of assurance across a wide range of
technologies that products and services perform to industry accepted
standards.
About West Coast Labs Real Time Testing Program
The Real Time Testing program builds upon Checkmark Certification program
with the belief that effective independent performance validation of content
security technologies should occur as an actual business experience in
real-world environments. West Coast Labs now delivers sophisticated, live
testing and real-time product performance through its 24x7x365 Real Time
Testing program. Products are tested continuously against content security
threats collected through West Coast Labs’ global network in real time to
provide the ultimate in performance validation. Upon completion of the
Checkmark Certification program and Real Time Testing program, products are
recognized with a Platinum Product Award indicating its ability to meet
superior levels of performance standards.
About West Coast Labs
Part of the Haymarket Media Group, West Coast Labs is a global leader in
technical research, testing and the Checkmark Certification of information
security products and services. With market-leading technology and testing
facilities accredited to ISO17025 in the UK,
services and the Checkmark Certification System are being used by the leading
global brands to create market advantage and by large business enterprises
for obtaining crucial technical insight into product performance.
For further information, please contact:
Spark Communications for Prevx
T: +44(0)20-7436-0420
E : Satyen@sparkcomms.co.uk / lorna@sparkcomms.co.uk
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