Most Security Products Fail To Perform

An anonymous reader writes "Nearly 80 percent of security products fail to perform as intended when first tested and generally require two or more cycles of testing before achieving certification, according to a new ICSA Labs report that details lessons gleaned from testing thousands of security products over 20 years. Across seven product categories core product functionality accounted for 78 percent of initial test failures. For example, an anti-virus product failing to prevent infection and for firewalls or an IPS product not filtering malicious traffic. Rounding out the top three is the startling finding that 44 percent of security products had inherent security problems. Security testing issues range from vulnerabilities that compromise the confidentiality or integrity of the system to random behavior that affects product availability."

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Re:This just in!

[mcgrew]

Woo. Insightful this ain't.

Mods, please don't mod that uninsightful coment "insightful". Having a defect in a device I've bought has been extremely rare, buying anything from toasters to TV sets to video cards that just don't work is unheard of. Don't talk to me about the "complexity" of writing software, you think you car is simple?

If your software is buggy your company is incompetent. Period. We as customers shoud stop putting up with defective products and beta sofware that's been rolled out as a "finished product." If I find your software doesn't perform, I should get my money back.

People, can we please stop putting up with incompetents' excuses? After a quarter of a century of putting my up with your crap software I'm getting a little tired of it.