In cybersecurity, accuracy is everything. Yet false positives remain one of the most costly challenges facing AV vendors and application publishers alike. Studies have put the dollar value associated with false positives in the tens of millions but the true cost is impossible to tell. For endpoint solutions, even a single false positive can result in blocked business-critical software, lost customers, and long-term reputational damage.
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Your detection engine might be powerful - but how much of it is signal, and how much is noise?
Whether you are an anti-malware vendor or an application developer, enrolling in the WCL False Positive Early Detection Service can help keep you ahead of the curve. Our alert system will notify you of false positive events, identifying the files in question and how they've been affected. Whether it is a simple warning or, critically, removal/alteration of the file.
False Positives Erode Trust - and Cost the Industry Millions
For anti-malware vendors
While your scanning engines may provide industry leading malware detection rates, or employ bleeding edge technologies to combat the very latest threats, all of this can be undone with critical false positive detections.
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Early detection of false positive events can mitigate the damage and cost to your company. Our FPEDS system will notify you immediately upon a false positive being reported.
For application developers and publishers
False positives have the potential to damage, or even undo, the time and expense spent in bringing your application to market. The impact can be significant, whether measured in the man-hours required to provide support to your users, dealing with fault reports, or communicating a fix with the anti-malware vendor responsible.
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Deploying your application to our FEDS system will help provide early warning and may allow you to stay ahead of the potential damage.
Contact the lab today to be added to the False Positive EDS test system.
Our engineers will work with you to create a customized test that meets your requirements. Whether it's the straightforward deployment of your anti-malware solution or application, or a tailored test to compare multiple versions and specific endpoint configurations.
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