A security vendor’s failed attempt to prevent a report containing details on its product’s capabilities from being released at the RSA conference in San Francisco this week has focused attention on the need for more widely accepted testing and validation services for security technologies.

The report is from NSS Labs, a company that bills itself as an independent security product-testing firm, which also sells its own threat protection platform.  NSS recently conducted security tests on Advanced Endpoint Protection (AEP) products from 13 vendors and released the results of its testing at RSA this week.