The NSS Group is the world’s foremost independent security testing facility.

With British headquarters, and security and network infrastructure testing facilities in the South of France, The NSS Group offers a range of specialist IT, networking and security-related services to vendors and end-user organisations world-wide.

The NSS Group’s Security Testing Laboratories are available to vendors and end-users for fully independent testing of networking, communications and security hardware and software.

The NSS Group also operates certification schemes for vendors and certification bodies, and currently provides evaluation and certification of a wide range of security products, including Intrusion Prevention Systems (IPS), Intrusion Detection Systems (IDS), Secure Content Appliances (SCA), Unified Threat Management (UTM) systems, firewalls, VPNs, Web Application firewalls, cryptographic devices and PKI products.

Output from the labs, including detailed research reports, articles and white papers on the latest network and security technologies, are made available on the NSS web site.

The NSS Group awards are recognised world-wide as being the most desirable and essential when it comes to security products. Vendors consider the awards to be a crucial step in any security-related marketing campaign, whilst feedback from readers of the reports indicates that participation in an NSS Group test and/or one of the NSS Approved awards is a prerequisite for any security product in order to be considered for purchase.

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