- Documents
Here you can find all of AMTSO’s official publications including our guidance documents.
For legal documentation see our about page.
- Latest release - Sandbox Evaluation Framework
The AMTSO Sandbox Working Group produced its first paper, providing a comprehensive framework for evaluating sandboxes on a use-case basis, published 2025-03-26.
- AMTSO Testing Protocol Standard
Current version
- AMTSO Testing Guidance
Since its foundation in 2008, AMTSO has published a series of guidelines and best practices documents providing expert insight into the problems faced by anyone trying to evaluate the capabilities of anti-malware products and solutions.
These documents have been developed and approved by the AMTSO members, combining expertise from across the security and security-testing industries. AMTSO continues to develop new guidance and further papers will be posted to this page as they are completed. To suggest a new topic for consideration, or to provide feedback or error reporting on our existing documents, please contact us.
Recent and Core Documents
Document Archive
- Best Practices for Dynamic Testing (2008)
- Best Practices for Testing In-the-Cloud Security Products (2009)
- Guidelines for Testing Network-Based Security Products (2009)
- Suggested Methods for the Validation of Samples (2009)
- Issues Involved in Creation of Samples (2009)
- Whole Product Testing Guidelines (2010)
- Guidelines to False Positive Testing (2010)
- Performance Testing Guidelines (2010)
- Guidelines on Facilitating Testability (2011)
- Sample Selection for Testing (2012)
- Use and Misuse of Test Files in Anti-Malware Testing (2012)
- Guidelines on Mobile Testing (2014)
- Guidelines for Testing Protection Against Targeted Attacks (2016)
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