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With State-of-the-Art Technology, Expertise and Efficiency

Managing Over 300 Terabytes of Test Data

In order to process such large quantities of data, AV-TEST has set up high-quality and efficient technical research environments at its sites in the German cities of Magdeburg and Leipzig.

The total office area of 800m²  is home to 3 server rooms and a variety of main and secondary laboratories. The main hub of these facilities contains the comprehensive data collection with an inventory of 100 million pieces of clean test data and 50 million pieces of malicious test data. All these pieces of data result from a collecting history that stretches back over 15 years and are joined by approx. 55,000 new pieces of malware every day!

All of the technical equipment used at AV-TEST is regularly adapted to remain in line with the current status of the IT industry. We are currently already using the sixth generation of equipment since the foundation of the company. Our 24 servers are joined by 280 workstations that are used to simulate various test environments and run a multitude of analysis procedures. Our specialists work in small laboratory teams to develop the research areas of Appliances, Protection Solutions for Home Users, Protection Solutions for Companies and Mobile Security.