We cover 47 security tools across 8 categories — comparing vendor-published specs, current pricing pages, published specifications, and published independent-lab results from AV-Test, AV-Comparatives, and SE Labs. These are the results.
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No vendor demos. No sponsored placements. Every comparison is built from published material: vendor documentation, published pricing, and named independent lab results.
We read published detection results from AV-TEST and AV-Comparatives and compare detection rate, false positive rate and scan speed as those labs report them, with the test period named on every page.
Where providers or independent reviewers publish speed-test results, we note the reported range and the conditions it was measured under. VPN throughput depends heavily on server distance, protocol and time of day, so we also point you at dnsleaktest.com to check leaks on your own connection, and we check no-log claims against published policy documents.
We examine encryption standards (AES-256, Argon2), audit trail reports, and attempt common attacks (dictionary, brute force) against test vaults to see how each tool holds up.
Every score is cross-referenced with AV-TEST, AV-Comparatives, and SE Labs results. If our findings conflict with lab data, we investigate why and explain the discrepancy.
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