Security Heavyweights Team To Fight Spyware

Spyware causes more problems on computers in small-to-midsized businesses than almost any other issue. Today, the security giants, McAfee, Trend Micro, and Symantec announced that they would be teaming up with ICSA Labs and Cyber Security Labs. The group plans to develop industry standards for identifying and testing spyware control and removal.

The group, Spywaretesting.org, wants to standardize evaluation and testing criteria and methods. Many consumers are currently confused when buying antispyware products, and the collaboration wants to make choices easier for consumers.

Most of the testing that has been done in the past has not been properly documented and cannot be replicated. Thus, most of the available products are simply not effective enough and companies are making their fortunes mining information using Spyware.

Monte Robertson, president of Software Security Solutions, commented on the collaboration: "Antispyware vendors use different techniques and algorithms for how they detect malicious programs, and in determining what is important to detect and remove. This process needs standardization badly because there are a thousand ways to approach spyware detection and mitigation."

Learn more about this new team who will be standardizing spyware solutions and making your job as an IT consulting firm much easier (link above).

Blogged by Joshua Feinberg