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Articles by Mark Dufresne
Director of Engineering, Elastic
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Elastic Security maintains Product Approved status for AV-Comparatives
AV-Comparatives offers a comparison as an independent organization performing systematic testing that checks whether security software lives up to its promises. Elastic Security performed better than ever on the real-world protection test.
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