{"id":4775,"date":"2011-09-16T15:27:00","date_gmt":"2011-09-16T15:27:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/nss-labs-deems-ie9-as-most-secure-browser\/"},"modified":"2023-04-19T17:09:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-19T17:09:00","slug":"nss-labs-deems-ie9-as-most-secure-browser","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/insights\/nss-labs-deems-ie9-as-most-secure-browser\/","title":{"rendered":"NSS Labs Deems IE9 as Most Secure Browser"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: Cambria; font-size: 16px; \"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nsslabs.com\/company\/news\/press-releases\/nss-labs-performs-international-tests-of-web-browsers-against-sem.html\">NSS<br \/>\nLabs<\/a><\/span><span>, an information security research and testing organization, announced<br \/>\nthe<\/span>results<br \/>\nof a test they did on Web Browser Security Comparative Test Reports against<br \/>\nSocially-Engineered Malware. The tests had two components: one global, and one<br \/>\nAsia-Pacific test. The reports examined different web browsers and how they<br \/>\nrank in performance against socially-engineered <a href=\"https:\/\/electronicverificationsystems.com\/\">fraud prevention<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><span>Browsers tested in the report<br \/>\ninclude: <\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li><span>Apple<br \/>\nSafari 5 <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Google<br \/>\nChrome 12 <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Windows<br \/>\nInternet Explorer 9 (IE9)<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Mozilla<br \/>\nFirefox 4 <\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Opera<br \/>\n11<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>Out of the five<br \/>\nbrowsers, IE9 ranked the highest and continues to improve their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.electronicverificationsystems.com\/solutions\/\">fraud prevention<br \/>\nprotection<\/a> through its SmartScreen Filter and SmartScreen Application<br \/>\nReputation technologies.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>According to NSS, the key findings show:<\/span><span><\/span><\/p>\n<ul type=\"disc\">\n<li><span>Browsers<br \/>\ncan offer an additional layer of protection beyond antivirus.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Results<br \/>\nvaried from Q3 2010 test, with IE9, Chrome, and Opera showing improvement,<br \/>\nwhile Firefox and Safari decreased in protection.<\/span><\/li>\n<li><span>Microsofts<br \/>\nIE9 achieved over 99% in protection results with the new Application<br \/>\nReputation feature.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span>From<br \/>\nthe press release, NSS said, Socially engineered malware (SEM) remains the<br \/>\nmost common security threat facing Internet users today, claiming one third of<br \/>\ninternet users as victims. These attacks pose a significant risk to individuals<br \/>\nand organizations by threatening to compromise, damage, or acquire sensitive<br \/>\npersonal and corporate information. European and American users have found<br \/>\nthemselves particular targets of malware authors over the last 12 months. North<br \/>\nAmerica has consistently been the primary host of malicious URLs, while users<br \/>\nin Asia have been victims of the greatest number of malicious URLs.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><!--EndFragment--><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>NSS Labs, an information security research and testing organization, announced the results of a test they did on Web Browser Security Comparative Test Reports against Socially-Engineered Malware. The tests had two components: one global, and one Asia-Pacific test. The reports examined different web browsers and how they rank in performance against socially-engineered fraud prevention.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[37],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4775","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4775","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4775"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4775\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4775"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4775"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/evssolutions.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4775"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}