September 19, 2018 NSS Labs
 
On September 18, 2018, NSS Labs filed an antitrust suit against CrowdStrike, Symantec, ESET and the Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization (AMTSO). You might be asking yourself, why?
 
NSS Labs’ mission is to advance transparency and accountability in the cybersecurity industry. We filed this suit because some vendors have not been living up to their responsibility to protect consumers and they know it, and they’re trying to prevent the public from knowing it too. If you are in the cybersecurity industry, it won’t surprise you to hear that vendors often know about their products’ deficiencies yet don’t reveal them to consumers. What should shock you is that they are actively conspiring to prevent independent testing that uncovers those product deficiencies to prevent consumers from finding out about them.
 
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