- Documents
Here you can find all of AMTSO’s official publications including our guidance documents.
For legal documentation see our about page.
- AMTSO Testing Protocol Standard
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- 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.
- Fundamental Principles of Testing
- Best Practices for Dynamic Testing
- Best Practices for Testing In-the-Cloud Security Products
- Guidelines for Testing Network-Based Security Products
- Guidelines to False Positive Testing
- Guidelines for Testing Protection Against Targeted Attacks
- Guidelines on Facilitating Testability
- Guidelines on Mobile Testing
- Sample Selection for Testing
- Issues Involved in Creation of Samples
- Suggested Methods for the Validation of Samples
- Whole Product Testing Guidelines
- Use and Misuse of Test Files in Anti-Malware Testing
- Performance Testing Guidelines
- Guidelines for Testing of IoT Security Products *NEW*
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