Methodology registry · the "how" behind our work

Innovative, transparent methodologies.

Every methodology public, versioned, and open for challenge before a single product is scored. If a methodology can't survive scrutiny, neither can its verdicts.

11 public methodologies 2 live AMTSO evaluations right of reply via AMTSO Standard
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Two world-scale evaluations, live.

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VPN Performance World Tour

Real hardware on real networks, city by city, under VPN Performance 1.0. Fastest verified so far: 908 Mbps.

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AI Scam & Phishing Test

The world's largest AI scam & phishing evaluation — live lure corpus under Scam & Phishing 1.5.

AMTSO standard listing
The registry

Ten methodologies. All public.

How a methodology lives

Peer reviewed, always up to date.

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Drafted in the open
Shaped with AMTSO Working groups where possible.
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Published
Full PDF, versioned.
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Open for challenge
Security vendors, researchers, practitioners feedback.
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Revised
1.0 → 1.1 → 1.5 — changelog public.
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Test runs
Identical conditions, weeks not months.
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Right of reply
Vendor responses beside verdicts.

Disagree with a step? Good.

Transparency means the methodology is challengeable before the test, not after the verdict. Tell us what we got wrong — we publish the changelog.

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