When your endpoint defense is tested against 50 sophisticated attack scenarios—the kinds of attacks that compromise enterprises—the measure is simple: did anything get through? For TrendAI Vision One™ Endpoint Security Essentials in AV-Comparatives' 2026 Endpoint Prevention & Response (EPR) Test, the answer is no. Zero asset breaches. That concrete result earned us Certified Leader status.
What Certified Leader status means
AV-Comparatives' 2026 EPR Test is one of the industry's most demanding evaluations. The assessment features 50 targeted attack scenarios inspired by real Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) techniques, all mapped to the MITRE ATT&CK framework. What sets this evaluation apart is its holistic approach: vendors are measured not just on their ability to prevent attacks, but also on detection accuracy, response effectiveness, operational efficiency, and total cost of ownership.
Certified Leader status recognizes top-tier performance across these dimensions. In other words, it validates what truly matters to security teams: Can you stop threats before they cause harm? If they get through, can you detect and respond quickly? And can you do all this without overwhelming your analysts with false positives?
The results: Zero breaches in 50 attack sequences
TrendAI Vision One™ Endpoint Security Essentials achieved Certified Leader status with a defining result: zero asset breaches across all 50 attack sequences. In a test designed to model real-world attacker behaviors, not a single attack crossed our network.
AV-Comparatives validated the platform on:
- Containment across all scenarios: 100% coverage, stopping attacks at execution before potential threat actors reach asset compromise
- Out-of-the-box prevention: Defense across the full attack chain, with various controls across initial access, lateral movement, and data exfiltration stages – —without tuning
- Detection precision: Near-perfect visibility with minimal false positives—a small operational-accuracy trade-off for comprehensive protection
- Breach prevention: Perfect on asset-avoidance—the ultimate measure of endpoint defense
Effective blocking of malware is part of the complete defense story: we prevent the attack chain, detect what matters, respond decisively, and ensure nothing reaches your assets. From the security operations center (SOC) analyst perspective, this reduces the time spent on remediation in today’s multi-stage attacks. Attacks should be blocked as early as possible to collapse the entire attack chain, surfacing only the signals that matter. This is a key consideration when evaluating endpoint platforms as the effectiveness of both prevention and detection must be maintained throughout the full intrusion sequence.
“Facing the full range of attack vectors in our test, from stealthy scripts to USB-propagated payloads, the product ultimately contained every scenario before it could reach the asset breach phase, supported by solid mapping to MITRE's TTPs that helps SOC analysts investigate and escalate efficiently. It is a strong result that reflects well on TrendAI™'s enterprise protection capabilities.” —Andreas Clementi, Founder & CEO, AV-Comparatives
Why unified platforms matter
Enterprise environments today are increasingly hybrid. Threats don't recognize the boundary between endpoints, servers, cloud workloads, and identity systems. The 2026 test recognized this shift by evaluating solutions across diverse attack scenarios and operational factors.
The TrendAI Vision One™ platform’s unified approach means your security team gets consistent visibility and control across your entire environment. Whether threats originate on an endpoint, in the cloud, or across your network, you're defending with a single, coordinated platform that shares intelligence and correlates activity across layers.
What this means for your security team
Zero asset breaches across 50 attack scenarios is our proof point: prevention, detection, and response work together in TrendAI Vision One™ Endpoint Security Essentials. When you need to explain why endpoint matters to your board, to your team, or to your customers, this is the data you point to.
The Certified Leader status validates our current capabilities and reflects our commitment to continuous improvement. As threats evolve and enterprises embrace more complex architectures, we'll continue advancing detection analytics, expanding coverage, and refining alert precision. All while maintaining the goal that matters most: nothing gets through.
For enterprises evaluating EPR solutions, the AV-Comparatives 2026 report provides transparent, detailed insights into how solutions perform against real-world adversary tactics. We invite you to review it and draw your own conclusions. If you'd like to learn more about how TrendAI Vision One™ Endpoint Security Essentials achieves this level of comprehensive protection, we're ready to help.
Learn more: AV-Comparatives EPR Test 2026 Results