Emsisoft Named Product of the Year 2026 by AVLab, Earns Top Remediation Time Honor

AVLab Cybersecurity Foundation has awarded Emsisoft Enterprise Security + EDR the Product of the Year 2026 certificate, alongside the additional TOP Remediation Time 2026 distinction. These honors recognize Emsisoft’s exceptional performance across the full 2025 Advanced In-The-Wild Malware Test series, where the solution consistently demonstrated both comprehensive threat prevention and rapid, automated incident response.
To provide enterprises with meaningful validation of sustained protection effectiveness, the awards are based on rigorous, year-long evaluation data rather than a single test snapshot.

The Product of the Year 2026 certificate is granted to solutions that participated in at least three of AVLab’s six annual test rounds and achieved excellent certification (minimum 99% protection effectiveness) in each. The award assesses the entire attack chain, from web-layer prevention through runtime defense, under conditions that closely mirror real-world user behavior.

The TOP Remediation Time 2026 certificate imposes an even stricter requirement: successful neutralization of 100% of threats in at least three test editions, with the final assessment based on the three rounds where the solution demonstrated the fastest average remediation time. This metric measures the product’s ability to automatically interrupt malicious activity, remove threat components, and restore the system to a secure state.

Methodology: Real threats, real conditions

Each of the six 2025 editions used freshly collected malware samples obtained from active URLs. This includes threats distributed over HTTPS, a vector attackers exploit to create false trust. Samples underwent multi-stage verification: SHA-256 hash comparison eliminated duplicates, static analysis applied YARA rules, and dynamic execution in Windows 11 confirmed malicious behavior before any product was exposed.

Only solutions tested in their default configurations (or with clearly documented deviations) qualified for consideration. This transparency ensures the results reflect the protection customers actually receive, not a maximally tuned lab setup.

Emsisoft’s performance

• Nearly 57% of threats were blocked at the browser stage or immediately
  after being saved to disk, without the malicious code being executed.
• Over 43% of samples were blocked only after being executed.
• Emsisoft took an average of 31.2 seconds to automatically and flawlessly
  repair security incidents.

Read the full report here.

What the award validates

For Emsisoft, this demonstrates comprehensive coverage across the attack chain. Products must block threats at the web layer where possible, but also detect and neutralize those that execute. This could be due to delayed payload activation, LOLBin abuse, or zero-day evasion techniques. Emsisoft’s consistent ratings across all 2025 rounds demonstrate that its layered architecture delivers both.

Why independent validation matters

AVLab operates as a member of AMTSO (Anti-Malware Testing Standards Organization) and complies with Microsoft Virus Initiative requirements. Its six-edition-per-year cadence ensures products face current threats, not stale sample sets. The Product of the Year certificate aggregates this year-long data into a single, actionable signal for security buyers.

For organizations evaluating endpoint protection, these awards offer objective evidence that Emsisoft Enterprise Security + EDR delivers sustained, verifiable performance against the techniques adversaries actually use.