AMTSO releases draft guidelines for public comment
First major publication emerges from testing standards body.
The Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization, the global body set up to improve and support the testing of security
software, has made available a draft of its first document, a set of general guidelines intended to encourage greater
accuracy, reliability and trustworthiness in testing.
The document provides guidance on numerous aspects of testing, including strictures on ensuring the safe handling of
malicious code and the running of fair, useful and accountable tests, and advice on openness and statistical validity
in testing.
The document, the product of meetings held by the organisation since its foundation early this year and the formation of
several committees and working groups, is now being made available for public appraisal, with a comment period running
until October 17th. Final discussion and a vote on ratification of the proposed set of principles will take place at
the next meeting, expected to take place in London at the end of October.
A link to the document, and details of how to submit comments, can be found on the official AMTSO blog,
here. Full details on AMTSO are on their website
here.
26 August 2008
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