Welcome to our regular roundup of events and activities in and around AMTSO.
Meetings and Events
The call for papers for our October Cyber Research Conference in Brussels closed last week, and our review team is now working through the 60+ submissions to choose those most suitable for our audience. A small selection has already been announced via the event page, and we plan to confirm another tranche next week with the remaining selections to be made by the end of the month. An initial agenda is being built, to include time for AMTSO matters as well as reserved space for late-breaking items. The event is taking place in October, member registration is open and ticketing for non-members will be available soon.
Next week we will hold our official member meeting, online, with topics to cover including reports from all our working groups (more below), our RTTL project, future plans and proposals, and some statutory administrative matters; the call will also include a chance to hear from our Board election candidates. We look forward to catching up with our members and hearing their ideas and insights.
Working Groups
This week saw the launch call for our new AI Security Working Group, with representatives from multiple vendor and test-lab members discussing the issues around agentic and LLM security and how to evaluate protective measures. The group plans to produce initial guidance ASAP with an ambitious target timeline, and will also contribute to tool creation already under way. Next steps will include wider outreach to AI/ML experts outside the membership, as well as onboarding more participants from within AMTSO – any members (or others) interested in taking part are invited to get in touch for more information.
We also held a meeting for our Scam & Phishing Working Group this week, reviewing feedback received from our public preview of their first guideline paper; with minimal adjustments required, the paper will now go forward to formal member approval before being adopted as an official AMTSO document. The group will continue its work, looking into other ways our community can support better safety from scams and online deception.
Our Multiscanning group met this week too, reviewing feedback from trial testing and putting the final touches to the proposed process for validating solution suitability. Our Sandbox Evaluation group held a call last week, the current focus is on expansion of the existing framework to cover tools examining LLMs, as well as preparing for more tests based on the current framework. Our RTTL team held its regular call last week, discussing progress in developing proof-of-concept designs for new data enrichment pipelines for the newly expanded system, as well as tracking participation and system stability.
Details of all these projects and more will be discussed with members at next weeks’ member meeting.
Board and Management
Our annual Board elections are under way, with four candidates standing for the four open positions voting is something of a formality but gives our members a chance to confirm their support for the proposed new Board of Directors. Voting opened earlier this week and will run until June 2nd.
AMTSO Standard and Test Calendar
After a very busy roundup in the last newsletter it’s been a fairly quiet few weeks for testing; our latest Test Calendar updates have included regular reports from AppEsteem on unwanted software and AV-Test on Android security tools. We continue to await several publications including the latest scam & phishing test from Artifact Security, MacOS reports from AV-Test, and Q1 comparatives from MRG Effitas and SE Labs, all expected in the next few weeks.
Here’s a summary of recent activities from our Standard compliance team:
- A Public Test Notification was issued on behalf of MRG-Effitas for their May 2026 360 Degree Consumer Assessment and Certification (AMTSO Test ID: AMTSO-LS1-TP200) on Thursday, April 30th, 2026. Phase 1 Commentary remains open.
- Phase 2 Commentary Collection closed on Friday, May 8th, 2026 for the AV-Test March 2026 Test Report covering Android Antivirus Applications (AMTSO Test ID: AMTSO-LS1-TP184) as part of their 2026 annual Test Series. A Compliance Confirmation report has now been issued.
Information on all published and upcoming tests being tracked by AMTSO can be found in our Test Calendar.
Membership
Our finance team is working to prepare our annual membership renewal run, members can expect to receive their invoices next week. Anyone interested in becoming an AMTSO member can find more information on our joining page.
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