NEW DELHI, INDIA: Trend Micro is endorsing a new third party anti-malware testing methodology that better reflects today's 'real-world' conditions instead of using antiquated testing techniques that don't test computers against the latest threats coming from the Internet.

With its new approach to testing anti-virus products, NSS Labs is providing two key metrics in addition to traditional threat detection rates.

First, measurement of detection and blocking of threats, based on their URL source and second, measurement of the time delay between when a security vendor is first aware of a potential new threat and when protection from that threat is available at customer endpoints, the so-called 'time-to-protect'.

"We are pleased we performed well in these tests but, more importantly, we look forward to the advances in anti-malware product testing that better align third party testing with the actual security provided to the customers of these products. The focus of third party testing should be on protection for the customers, which extends far beyond simple detection," commented Amit Nath, country manager, India & SAARC, Trend Micro.

"In-the-cloud reputation systems boosted protection significantly on average and Trend Micro achieved the best download and execution protection. It became obvious from this test that Trend Micro has made considerable strides in adding cloud reputation-based protection to their arsenal," said Rick Moy, President, NSS Labs.