Symantec Advanced Threat Protection received the highest scores across all test categories in recent independent third-party testing from Miercom and Dennis Technology Labs, against vendors including FireEye, Cisco, Palo Alto Networks, and Fortinet.
Miercom reported that Symantec scored 26% better than FireEye and 18% better than Cisco SourceFire in overall malware detection and received perfect marks in detecting Advanced Persistent Threats and Advanced Evasion Techniques (AETs). In fact, while Symantec detected every AET tested, Cisco detected only 5% and FireEye detected none of them.
AETs are a type of network attack that combines several different known evasion methods to create a new technique delivered over several network layers simultaneously. By combining evasion methods, an AET can create millions of ways to evade detection, making them “the most complex threats to date,” according to Miercom.
“We were pleased with the performance of the Symantec ATP solution for detecting malware, particularly its ability to effectively detect and remove not only the most common but even the unknown malware threats as well,” wrote Miercom CEO Robert Smithers.
In another competitive benchmarking conducted by Dennis Technology Labs, Symantec was ranked best in detection, scoring 100% in both detection accuracy and legitimate accuracy (allowing legitimate programs to operate unhindered). Palo Alto Networks scored 90% in detection accuracy while Cisco and Fortinet each scored below 75%. The test used genuine active threats, including malicious URLs and custom threats, and legitimate applications were used to test for false positives.
Source: Dennis Technology Labs December 2015
Symantec Advanced Threat Protection is a single unified solution that uncovers, prioritizes, and remediates advanced attacks. It leverages an organization’s existing Symantec™ Endpoint Protection and Email Security.cloud investments and requires no new agents. It fuses intelligence from endpoints, networks, and email, as well as Symantec’s massive global sensor network, to stop threats that evade individual point products. And with one click of a button, Symantec Advanced Threat Protection will search for, discover, and remediate any attack artifacts in your organization. All from a single console.
Learn more about Symantec Advanced Threat Protection at atp.symantec.com
Read the full report from Miercom: http://miercom.com/pdf/reports/20151026.pdf
Read the full report from Dennis Technology Labs: http://www.dennistechnologylabs.com/reports/s/a-m/symantec/DTL_2015_APT.1.0.pdf