Industry Assessments
Miercom’s Industry Assessments are trusted, independent evaluations of security solutions that test how vendors perform in real-world scenarios. These assessments benchmark emerging and established technologies—such as AI Security, CNAPP, EDR, and NDR—against industry standards and threats. Participating vendors gain unmatched visibility, detailed performance metrics, and inclusion in exclusive third-party reports circulated to buyers, partners, and media. Ready to see how your solution ranks?
Explore Our Current Industry Assessments
Want to be known as a trusted leader in AI Security?
Miercom’s AI Security Assessment evaluates your AI solution’s ability to withstand real-world adversarial inputs, policy circumvention, and targeted manipulation.
We test models across a range of attack vectors—prompt injection, policy bypass, and synthetic content generation—to reveal vulnerabilities often overlooked by internal validation.
In addition to technical stress testing, we analyze how well your AI enforces policies and mitigates harmful output in edge-case scenarios. Performance is verified through third-party data and presented in a vendor-neutral report designed to position your solution as enterprise-ready and resilient under pressure.
Why This Matters:
- Independent credibility in a skeptical AI market
- Proof of adversarial resilience
- Positioning for risk-conscious buyers
- Analyst-informed report with comparative insights
Can you solution detect and stop a breach in progress
Our Breach Detection Assessment simulates full kill-chain scenarios to evaluate your product’s detection and alerting capabilities across malware delivery, command and control, lateral movement, and exfiltration.
We measure how fast and how accurately your solution detects a breach in motion—and how it prioritizes threats to enable response.
Each vendor’s platform is tested under identical conditions and scored against detection depth, speed, accuracy, and fidelity. Results are validated through independent traffic replay and threat intelligence.
Why This Matters:
- Validates real-time detection capabilities
- Builds confidence for security-conscious buyers
- Offers benchmarked performance data
- Supports stronger threat exposure marketing
Is your CNAPP protecting cloud-native assets end-to-end?
This assessment puts your Cloud-Native Application Protection Platform (CNAPP) through tests designed to mimic modern hybrid and multi-cloud deployment challenges.
We validate your ability to detect and respond to misconfigurations, insecure code artifacts, runtime threats, and policy violations across containers, Kubernetes, and serverless workloads.
Each solution is scored on its contextual risk visibility, prioritization logic, and cross-layer correlation.
Why This Matters:
- Demonstrates protection across code-to-cloud
- Differentiates with proactive IaC and runtime control
- Provides buyer-validated performance comparisons
- Enhances partnership and sales enablement materials
How fast, accurate and intelligent is your endpoint defense?
Our Endpoint Detection and Response (EDR) Assessment evaluates how your product handles sophisticated endpoint threats—from fileless malware to credential theft.
We measure how quickly and effectively your solution detects, contains and alerts on endpoint compromise. Our test harness emulates sophisticated, real-world attack techniques across multiple operating systems to validate your solution’s threat visibility, alert quality and ability to drive efficient investigation and response.
Why This Matters:
- Validates detection and response in real-world threats
- Provides proof of effective endpoint protection
- Supports stronger sales claims for operational readiness
- Offers analyst-backed comparison data
Are you managing risk or just tracking it?
This Exposure Management (EM) assessment evaluates how well your platform identifies, prioritizes and tracks exposures that matter most—from unpatched vulnerabilities and toxic combinations of permissions to internet-facing misconfigurations.
Whether your platform claims Continuous Threat Exposure Management (CTEM), Continuous Vulnerability and Exposure Management (CVEM), or general EM, we test your solution’s ability to reduce noise and surface what’s exploitable in real-world conditions. We measure effectiveness through attacker-centric scenarios and business risk context.
Why This Matters:
- Shows proactive risk reduction vs. passive tracking
- Validates prioritization and remediation workflows
- Supports higher security team buy-in
- Aligns with attack surface management trends
Does your firewall deliver consistent security everywhere?
We assess your Hybrid Mesh Firewall solution across cloud, on-prem, and containerized environments, validating its ability to enforce consistent policy and detect threats across distributed architectures.
This includes benchmarking packet inspection, app awareness, encrypted traffic handling, and integration with cloud-native controls. Performance is validated with synthetic and replayed traffic from real attack datasets, including evasions, lateral threats, and encrypted payloads.
Why This Matters:
- Proves firewall effectiveness across varied environments
- Builds trust in multi-cloud and distributed scenarios
- Offers comparative visibility in control plane strength
- Enhances value for MSP and enterprise customers
Is your MTD solution keeping pace with mobile threats?
Our Mobile Threat Defense (MTD) Assessment challenges your platform against current mobile threats including malicious apps, phishing links, obfuscated malware, rogue Wi-Fi, and DNS tunneling.
Each product is evaluated for detection accuracy, policy enforcement, user experience, and integration with enterprise systems (e.g., MDM/UEM, conditional access). We simulate real-world attack vectors across Android and iOS to surface how your solution performs under real pressure.
Why This Matters:
- Validates mobile security across varied threat vectors
- Balances protection with user experience
- Demonstrates real-world threat coverage
- Supports channel and corporate compliance messaging
Can your NDR see the stealthy threats others miss?
The Network Detection & Response (NDR) Assessment pits your solution against real enterprise traffic infused with threats—malware payloads, beaconing, and insider activity.
We evaluate how well your NDR detects lateral movement, protocol misuse, encrypted threats, and anomalous behavior while maintaining low false positives. Vendors are measured on visibility across protocols, detection latency, and support for threat-hunting workflows.
Why This Matters:
- Shows advanced detection in encrypted and stealth scenarios
- Offers analyst-verified behavior analysis data
- Positions vendor as proactive network protector
- Supports better response orchestration messaging
Does your SSE Safeguard cloud access without slowing users down?
We evaluate your Secure Service Edge (SSE) platform’s ability to enforce policies, detect threats, and deliver fast, secure access across web, cloud, and private apps.
The assessment tests SWG, CASB, ZTNA, and DLP features against real-world use cases—unsanctioned app access, data exfiltration attempts, inline malware, and policy circumvention. Each vendor is scored on latency, effectiveness, policy granularity, and visibility.
Why This Matters:
- Demonstrates secure, high-performance edge access
- Validates policy consistency across cloud and users
- Provides third-party-backed SaaS protection claims
- Enhances appeal to enterprises adopting zero-trust