# Artifact Security

> Independent security test lab in London, UK. We measure whether security products actually stop attacks — under identical, published methodologies — and publish the results in the open. AMTSO members; co-founder Stefan Dumitrascu is AMTSO President. Core values: Transparency, Innovation, Partnership. Every methodology is public and open for challenge before any product is scored; vendors always get right of reply.

Every page below is available as clean Markdown (linked directly) — prefer the .md version over HTML to save tokens. Contact: hello@artifactsecurity.co.uk

## Services

- [Tests & Certification](https://artifactsecurity.co.uk/services/index.md): Six evaluations (Scam & Phishing, AI SOC, Secure Browser, Identity & Cloud, Ransomware Impact, Advanced Persistent Testing) and two certification tracks (Real World Protection, VirusTotal Certification), with scope, metrics and how to take part
- [Penetration Testing](https://artifactsecurity.co.uk/penetration-testing/index.md): Three tiers with public pricing — Essentials $5k, Startup $10k, Enterprise $30k+ — manual testing by certified engineers, process and deliverables
- [Methodology Registry](https://artifactsecurity.co.uk/test-methodologies/index.md): All 10 public, versioned methodologies, the two live AMTSO evaluations, and how methodologies are drafted, challenged and revised
- [Test Reports](https://artifactsecurity.co.uk/reports/index.md): Published results including the VPN Performance World Tour Round 1 (June 2026), what every report contains, and the live Transparency Portal

## Company

- [About the lab](https://artifactsecurity.co.uk/index.md): Who we are, live evaluations, the five-step open testing loop, and how to get a product tested
- [Team & Values](https://artifactsecurity.co.uk/our-team/index.md): The people behind the tests, AMTSO and Sigma Squared roles, and the three values — Transparency, Innovation, Partnership
- [Media & Press](https://artifactsecurity.co.uk/media/index.md): Advance report copies, data cuts, expert quotes and explainers for journalists — independent and unsponsored
- [Privacy Policy](https://artifactsecurity.co.uk/policies/privacy-policy/index.md): Security & privacy practices under UK GDPR, ISO 27001-aligned ISMS, data retention and rights

## Blog

- [Blog index](https://artifactsecurity.co.uk/blog/index.md): Research and insights written by the people who run the tests
- [Building resilience against ransomware](https://artifactsecurity.co.uk/post/ransomware-impact/index.md): Why single-layer prevention scores mislead and what full-chain ransomware testing shows (March 2026)
- [Cyber 2025: legacy defenses](https://artifactsecurity.co.uk/post/cyber-2025-the-year-we-stopped-pretending-legacy-defenses-work/index.md): A year of evidence against checkbox security — major 2025 incidents, the numbers, and what actually works (January 2026)
- [AI-powered SOCs — noise, metrics, trust](https://artifactsecurity.co.uk/post/ai-powered-socs-noise-metrics-trust/index.md): How to evaluate AI SOC tools with the right metrics, and how our AI SOC evaluation scores them (January 2026)

## Individual report pages (HTML)

- [QuellSecure — Ransomware Impact 2026](https://artifactsecurity.co.uk/reports/quellsecure): Evaluated under the Ransomware Impact methodology, to the AMTSO Standard
- [Bitdefender — Scam & Phishing 2025](https://artifactsecurity.co.uk/reports/scam-phishing-2025-bitdefender): Scam & Phishing evaluation result
- [Gen Digital — Scam & Phishing 2025](https://artifactsecurity.co.uk/reports/scam-phishing-2025-gendigital): Scam & Phishing evaluation result
- [McAfee — Scam & Phishing 2025](https://artifactsecurity.co.uk/reports/scam-phishing-2025-mcafee): Scam & Phishing evaluation result

## Optional

- [Full site as one file](https://artifactsecurity.co.uk/llms-full.txt): All page content concatenated into a single Markdown document
- [AMTSO: Scam & Phishing evaluation listing](https://www.amtso.org/tests/artifact-security-scam-and-phishing-evaluation-h1-2026/): Official AMTSO standard listing for the live test
- [AMTSO: VPN Performance evaluation listing](https://www.amtso.org/tests/artifact-security-vpn-performance-evaluation-h1-2026/): Official AMTSO standard listing for the live test
- [Transparency Portal](https://portal.artifactsecurity.co.uk/): Raw results — searchable per vendor, per region, per stage