SiteLock Independent Study is Rubbish!!

This is pretty great... SiteLock engaged a company to perform an independent test of their environment.

Press Release: http://www.prnewswire.com/news-releases/independent-testing-shows-sitelock-web-based-malware-protection-outperforms-traditional-endpoint-solutions-300339429.html

Sounds great!

WhiteFirDesign put out a post on the subject: http://www.whitefirdesign.com/blog/2016/10/05/would-you-be-surprised-to-hear-that-sitelocks-idea-of-independent-testing-doesnt-involve-actual-independence/

Here is a summary:

• SiteLock paid Tolly to perform an "independent" analysis of their effectiveness
• The Tolly report compared SiteLock to the McAfee Complete Endpoint Protection solution - McAfee Complete Endpoint Protection focuses on desktops / notebooks.....SiteLock focuses on websites
• Shows why you have to invest in website security solutions, because your existing solution is no good
• Tolly used 3,000 web-based malware samples
• The samples were provided by SiteLock to Tolly
• McAfee performed horribly - detecting only 6%, magically SiteLock detected 100% of the malware strains they provided to the reviewer
• Can you imagine if they wouldn't have detected 100% of the samples they provided? That would have been bad.

Thinking McAfee got the short end of the stick on this test..