Welcome to our regular roundup of events and activities in and around AMTSO.
Meetings and Events
Our next event will be our April Testing Town Hall call, taking place next week. The agenda includes updates from several AMTSO projects including a review of proposals for a major expansion of our threat intel sharing system, RTTL v3.0. We will also look at the draft guidelines from our Scam & Phishing Working Group, published this week and available for review and feedback, and hear proposals for new projects looking at AI agent security and, time permitting, look into the world of physical security testing. A member presentation from SecureIQLab will also cover testing AI safety and security. AMTSO members and those signed up to attend our events should have received the call details, anyone interested in joining the call can register via the sign-up page.
Similar topics were covered in some depth on our recent Fireside Chat event, hosted in collaboration with Artifact Security. A summary of the discussion has been shared with AMTSO members, and plans for further debate on this subject are being developed.
Planning continues for our October in-person event in Brussels, with the call for papers open until the end of April – members and non-members interested in sharing their insights with the attendees are encouraged to submit ASAP. We expect to publish an initial selection from the submissions received so far, and to open for public registration, very shortly. We also expect to soon provide details of our online member meeting, scheduled for mid-May and including our annual Board election hustings.
Board and Management
There are less than two weeks left for candidate nominations for our annual Board elections, with a deadline of April 20th. Eligible member representatives interested in taking a role in the running of our organization are urged to submit their candidature ahead of the deadline. There will be a chance for members to hear from and question the candidates at our online member meeting in mid-May; voting will run through May and close on June 2nd.
Working Groups
As noted above, our Scam & Phishing group has published draft guidelines for review and comment, and will be meeting again this week to map out the next steps for the project. Our Sandbox Evaluation project team held a call last week, looking at plans for trial evaluations focused on publicly-available sandboxing tools; it is yet to be decided whether the outcomes of this trial will be fully public. The RTTL working group also met last week, with preparations under way for sharing of the group’s future plans on the upcoming Testing Town Hall. Our multiscanning project team continues to await the outcomes of trial testing, which should shape the final criteria and process being developed; we expect to share full details with members during the May online member meeting.
AMTSO Standard and Test Calendar
Recent additions to our Test Calendar include the first Windows reports of the year from AV-Test, alongside regular updates on Windows anti-malware and on anti-spam solutions from Virus Bulletin, on unwanted software handling from AppEsteem, and on Android security from Testing Ground Labs. Coming soon we expect to see the long-awaited next round of scam & phishing testing data from Artifact Security, as well as the first 2026 MacOS testing from AV-Test and Q1 reports from SE Labs.
Here’s a summary of recent activities from our Standard compliance team:
- A Public Test Notification was issued on behalf of SecureIQLab for their upcoming AI Security CyberRisk Validation Methodology v1.0 Test (AMTSO Test ID: AMTSO-LS1-TP193) on Monday, March 23rd, 2026. Phase 1 Commentary is now open.
- A Public Test Notification was issued on behalf of Artifact Security for their upcoming Email Phishing and BEC Evaluation H1 2026 (AMTSO Test ID: AMTSO-LS1-TP194) on Monday, March 23rd, 2026. Phase 1 Commentary is now open.
- A Public Test Notification was issued on behalf of SecureIQLab for their Q4’2026 Cloud Native CyberRisk Validation Methodology v1.0 Test (AMTSO Test ID: AMTSO-LS1-TP195) on Friday, March 27th, 2026. Phase 1 Commentary is now open.
- A Public Test Notification was issued on behalf of Virus Bulletin (VB) for their Q2’2026 VBSpam Test (AMTSO Test ID: AMTSO-LS1-TP196) on Wednesday, April 1st, 2026. Phase 1 Commentary is now open.
- Phase 2 Commentary Collection for the Venak Security Q1 2026 Zero-Day AV/EDR Q1 2026 Test Report (AMTSO Test ID: AMTSO-LS1-TP182) closed on Tuesday, March 24th, 2026 and the corresponding Compliance Report was issued on Wednesday, March 25th, 2026.
- Phase 2 Commentary Collection for the Virus Bulletin VB100 January-March 2026 Test Reports (AMTSO Test ID: AMTSO-LS1-TP174) closed on Friday, March 27th, 2026 and the associated Compliance Report was issued on the same date.
- Phase 2 Commentary Collection for the Testing Ground Labs (TGL) February 2026 Consumer Android Malware Detection Test Report (AMTSO Test ID: AMTSO-LS1-TP189) closed on Monday, March 30th, 2026 with the Compliance Report issued on the same date.
- Phase 2 Commentary Collection for the SecureIQLab Advanced Cloud Firewall CyberRisk Validation Test Report (AMTSO Test ID: AMTSO-LS1-TP158) closed on Monday, March 30th, 2026 and the associated Compliance Report was issued on the same date.
- Phase 2 Commentary Collection for the Virus Bulletin VBSpam Q1 2026 Test Report (AMTSO Test ID: AMTSO-LS1-TP179) closed on Thursday, April 2nd, 2026 with the associated Compliance Report now issued.
- Phase 2 Commentary Collection for the AV-Test Windows 11 Business Test Series (AMTSO Test ID: AMTSO-LS1-TP187), and the AV-Test Windows 11 Consumer Test Series (AMTSO Test ID: AMTSO-LS1-TP188) opened on Tuesday, April 7th, 2026 and will close on Tuesday, April 14th, 2026.
- A Compliance Confirmation covering the AV-Test January Android Consumer 2026 Test Report (AMTSO Test ID: AMTSO-LS1-TP184) was issued on Monday, March 16th, 2026.
- A Compliance Confirmation covering the MRG-Effitas Q4’2025 Endpoint Test (AMTSO Test ID: AMTSO-LS1-TP176) was issued on Friday, March 13th, 2026.
- Upcoming Phase 2 Commentary Collections are planned in mid-April 2026 covering AppEsteem’s Q1’2026 UwS Test Series (AMTSO Test ID: AMTSO-LS1-TP180).
Information on all published and upcoming tests being tracked by AMTSO can be found in our Test Calendar.
Membership
We a pleased to welcome our newest member, Ikarus. We continue to work on onboarding several other applicants. Anyone interested in becoming an AMTSO member can find more information on our joining page.
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