Cybersecurity can be complex work, as security teams need to regularly decipher and prioritize alerts, protect against daily threats, and possibly implement product configuration changes, all while staying abreast of the latest intelligence on new and evolving threats. For organizations that lack fully staffed, internal security teams, or sometimes even one security hire, cybersecurity is then a function of simplicity and time: Any good cybersecurity product must be effective and intuitive out of the box.

With the results of this year’s MITRE ATT&CK® Evaluation, announced today, Malwarebytes’ standout performance proves that our Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) solution is just that type of product.

In the two categories of Protection and No Delays or Configuration Changes, we achieved a 100 percent success rate, meaning that our business product stopped every tested cyberthreat before it reached a machine, and we did it “out of the box,” meaning that we did not have to change any configuration settings to achieve total protection. For the many businesses that lack a SOC, this simple, intuitive protection is vital to their daily operations, as it allows those businesses to focus on any threats that do manage to get through.

We also detected 83 out of 90 steps that were included in the MITRE ATT&CK Evaluation, and of the corresponding 83 alerts for those steps, 82 were of the highest quality, providing actionable insight that could help stop an attack as it happens. Combined with our 100 percent protection score and our user-friendly simplicity, Malwarebytes can give even small businesses everything they need to get back to doing what they do best—their jobs.

In this post, we will focus less on how Malwarebytes performed in the MITRE ATT&CK evaluation, and more on what the test means and how it can be best interpreted by businesses of all sizes.