Google Security Expert Criticizes Meaningless Antivirus Excellence Awards

Over the weekend, one of Google’s top security researchers, Tavis Ormandy, published a blog post in which he criticized antivirus certification programs that award meaningless prizes to flawed security products.

His problem came from the fact that at this year’s RSA security conference held at the start of March, Verizon’s ICSA Labs awarded Comodo the 2016 Excellence in Information Security Testing Award.