Abstract
 

Paper Title

Anti Malware Testing Standards Organization (AMTSO): The Status Right Now

Author(s)

Righard J. Zwienenberg (The Netherlands), Chief Research Officer, Norman. President, AMTSO.

Time

12 December, Friday, 08:50 - 09:20.

 

 

Most testers have been sticking to the same methodologies (if any) for too many years. These methodologies are incompatible with new technologically advanced methods to detect malware. Not knowing the concept of new technologies often results in flawed comparative results. As the entire industry if facing this problem over and over, a new organization was formed having representatives of the industry, the testers and academics, to define requirements, guidelines and best practices for proper conducted tests. The organization is formalized under the name AMTSO: Anti Malware Testing Standards Organization, and has since its formation been working on the first series of documents describing the aforementioned categories. The presentation will explain the AMTSO organization, what AMTSO is all about and give an overview of already finished publications as well as the work in progress at the moment of the conference.