Welcome to our regular roundup of events and activities in and around AMTSO.
Meetings and Events
Plans for our October “Cyber Research Conference” in Lisbon continue to advance, with many great speakers and presentation/discussion topics announced on the event page and more to come. We have arranged an extension of the hotel booking rate to September 18th for anyone yet to arrange their accommodation, and we request that anyone planning to attend register ASAP to secure your spot at the event. The CfP has also been further extended, to September 15th, and we will be posting a full agenda as soon as the final paper selections have been made.
Ahead of that, AMTSO will also be present at the VB2025 conference in Berlin. We look forward to catching up with many members, and meeting potential new participants in our community, at both events.
Further ahead, our next Testing Town Hall online event is planned for mid-November, we expect to post initial details soon.
Working Groups
Several of our Working Groups continued to meet over summer breaks to push ahead with their projects and plan out what to share with attendees in Lisbon.
Our “real-world” group met again this week, with representation from McAfee joining the lineup, and will be renamed to the “Scam & Phishing” group to clarify the focus of its activities. Debate this week included defining and separating the two categories of threat, as well as the differing requirements of consumers and businesses facing such threats.
Our Sandbox team met during August and again last week, working to engage more sandbox vendors to get their products tested under our framework and working on plans to build out a structure to assist with testing and present results.
Our RTTL threat intel project team also held a call last week, looking at updates to the process for granting non-members greater access to the system as well as plans for presentations and group meetups in Lisbon.
All our active groups will hold sessions and provide general updates during the event.
AMTSO Standard and Test Calendar
Test labs have been busy over the last few weeks pushing out their Q2 reports, alongside others with monthly and bi-monthly schedules; recent updates have included Q2 data from MRG Effitas and SE Labs as well as a regular Android report from AV-Test. Coming soon we expect to see the first output from new test lab Artifact Security, looking at spam and phishing protections, as well as regular updates from AppEsteem, Testing Ground Labs and Virus Bulletin. Here’s a summary of recent activities from our Standard compliance team:
- A Public Test Notification was released on behalf of MRG-Effitas for their Q3’2025 360 Degree Android Assessment and Certification (AMTSO Test ID: AMTSO-LS1-TP162) on Tuesday, September 2nd, 2025.
- A Public Test Notification was released on behalf of MRG-Effitas for their Q3’2025 360 Degree Assessment and Certification (Endpoint) (AMTSO Test ID: AMTSO-LS1-TP163) on Tuesday, September 2nd, 2025.
- Phase 2 Commentary Collection was launched on Tuesday, August 26th and closed on Thursday, September 4th, 2025 for the AVLab Cybersecurity Foundation July 2025 Advanced “In the Wild” Malware Detection Test (AMTSO Test ID: AMTSO-LS1-TP138). A Compliance Confirmation Report for this test has now been issued.
- Phase 2 Commentary Collection was launched on Wednesday, August 27th and closed on Thursday, September 4th, 2025 for the MRG-Effitas Q2’2025 Android Efficacy Assessment (AMTSO Test ID: AMTSO-LS1-TP153) and .Q2’2025 360-Degree Endpoint Assessment and Certification (AMTSO Test ID: AMTSO-LS1-TP154). Compliance Confirmation Reports for each of these tests have now been issued.
- Phase 2 Commentary Collection was launched on Tuesday, September 2nd and closed on Tuesday, September 9th, 2025 for the AV-Test Android Consumer Test July 2025 (AMTSO Test ID: AMTSO-LS1-TP144). A Compliance Confirmation Repors for this test has now been issued.
- Phase 2 Commentary Collection will commence shortly for the SE Labs Q2 2025 Endpoint Protection Test (AMTSO Test ID: AMTSO-LS1-TP149).
Information on all published and upcoming tests being tracked by AMTSO can be found in our test calendar.
Board and Management
Our September Board call has been scheduled for the end of the month to fit in between the VB conference and our own event in Lisbon. We will also hold an in-person meetup of the board and executive team ahead of the the Lisbon conference to finalize planning and look ahead to new projects, as well as reviewing finances and other administrative matters.
Membership
We welcome our latest new member, Honeygain. Anyone interested in becoming an AMTSO member and contributing their insights to our various projects can find more information on our joining page.
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