Simon PG Edwards

SE Labs Blog

How businesses and home users can make improvements to protect themselves The number of stories in the mainstream press about the devastation that hackers cause is proof enough as to who has the upper hand in the cyber war today. But there is still plenty that people can do to ... Read More

You need anti-virus and there is a load of advice online about which to buy. Who can you trust? Some anti-virus reviewers know what they are talking about. Others don’t. Some are just in it for the money. How can you tell which reviews are worth your time? How to ... Read More

All you need to know about anti-virus on the Mac. At SE Labs we are often asked, “which is the best anti-virus for the Mac?” And, “do you need anti-malware for MacBooks?” For reasons we’ll explain, we’ve not published an endpoint security report for Mac-based products (yet). But we do ... Read More

The first security technique you should master! Security planning can make your life easier to manage. It’s easy to become paralysed when you consider all of the threats that exist and all of the possible solutions. You can’t buy every security product available and you certainly shouldn’t even try. There ... Read More

When security policies and security testing meet… Security solutions can stop you getting things done. They can make mistakes, interpreting your actions as malicious. And then block your work. But they can also blindly follow security policies set by the IT department. Sometimes they do both! How can you predict ... Read More

A strategic alternative to penetration testing. Is Microsoft’s anti-virus good enough? Are the ‘next-gen’ endpoint products as good as they claim? Is our combination of anti-malware and whitelisting giving us full threat coverage? Enterprises are asking themselves, and SE Labs, these questions all the time. The good news is, we ... Read More

By understanding the rules of security testing. The reports below contain security testing results. You can compare the performance of a variety of products that claim to protect you against online threats. This, in theory, will help individuals and businesses choose the best security product. Rules of engagement But these ... Read More

A hacker mentality is keeping (computer) virus testing on track. Latest endpoint protection reports now online for enterprise, small business and home users. This is the first in our series of 2020 endpoint protection reports. And it is unique, for all the usual reasons but also a new one. We would normally highlight the ... Read More

World’s first in-depth, public test of security services vs. targeted attacks. This email security test report is the product of two years of advanced threat research. We have worked with the security companies themselves and with their customers. We have monitored what the bad guys have been doing and identified ... Read More

The current global health crisis will inevitably affect everyone's productivity in the coming months. We, at SE Labs, are committed to working through the challenges that face us all but we want to be realistic about how effective we are going to be at delivering our testing programmes, the feedback ... Read More