There were AV-Comparatives Approved Product Awards for qualifying consumer and business products. In addition to these talks and discussions the vendors were presented with the awards for their consumer and business products.Īt the Awards Ceremony, various awards were handed over for top-performing security products tested during the course of 2022.

The conference closed with a panel discussion about takeovers in the AV industry.

Jiri Sejtko, Threat Labs Operations Director of Gen Digital, explained the importance of testing against phishing.

Eddy Willems of G Data and Righard Zwienenberg from ESET held their musical presentation “You ain’t seen nothing yet” about the awareness of cybercriminality.

Pascal Schöttle (MCI Innsbruck) from the Management Center Innsbruck (MCI) presented his research on the future of IoT, which looked at uses cases and testing of these devices.

After the Round Table in the morning, Prof.

Traditional Austrian cuisine of the highest class was served at the 700 year old manor house “Restaurant Goldener Engl”. The award ceremony concluded with a tour of the mint in Hall where the participants were able to mint their own AV-Comparatives coin. Followed by a knights evening at the middle age restaurant Ritterkuchl with show program. On the first day of the event a tour to the historical silver mine in Schwaz was organised.

As cyber-threats continue to evolve, so must the testing of security solutions.ĪV-Comparatives’ Anti-Tampering & Egress C2 Test, which will be run for the first time as focus-certification tests in 2023, were introduced during a workshop. The security conference and Award Ceremony featuredspeakers on cybersecurity-related topics. The event was held in Hall, Tyrol, more than 40 IT security specialist from 10 countries attended. AV-Comparatives’ Awards Ceremony for its 2022 tests recognised those vendors whose products provide truly effective protection against IT threats.

As cybercrime becomes ever more common and ever more sophisticated, the importance of effective security programs increases accordingly.

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