Security buying must outgrow legacy evaluation models

Most cybersecurity evaluations lack resources, time, expertise, or some other key element required to guide optimal decisions.
As a result, buyers are forced into:

• Long, expensive POCs

• Deciphering conflicting analyst guidance

• Vendor-driven evaluations

• Renewal negotiations without leverage

This creates delay, cost, and risk—even for well-resourced security teams.

Shifting buying decisions toward real-world testing

The world’s leading cybersecurity vendors rely on SE Labs to test products against live threats, full attack chains, and real attacker behavior.

SE Labs testing:

• Uses live malware and recreates the most advanced attacker groups known in the cyber world

• Measures protection, detection accuracy, and false positives

• Produces scored, comparative outcomes
  
  

This is why SE Labs has become the testing authority trusted by the industry leaders building the products buyers depend on.

SE Labs tests products for vendors. We make that data available for buyers.

SE Labs testing has historically been inaccessible for enterprises.

Aligned Technology Advisers exists to solve that.

We provide buyers with:

• Access to SE Labs testing and comparative data

• Guidance on how to apply results to renewals, POCs, and architecture decisions

• A buyer-aligned engagement model with no vendor influence

• Preserve SE Labs integrity by acting as a financial insulator any time testing data could impact profitability

  • SE Labs always has $0 financial incentive between vendors

What buyers use ATA for

Buy with leverage

Use independent test data to pressure renewal price increases, justify change, or validate spend.

Shorten or eliminate POCs by entering decisions with real-world performance data.

Identify products that protect without introducing operational instability.

Move faster

Reduce friction

Reuse testing configurations recommended by vendors, and utilize testing forensic outputs to strengthen internal threat detection engineering.

Improve detection

Engage how you want. Buy how you need.

Buyers can engage Aligned Technology Advisers in multiple ways:

• Purchase testing or comparative data directly

• Use ATA as a VAR for testing and procurement alignment

• Layer ATA alongside an existing VAR relationship
  
  

CDW is our largest partner VAR and a proven execution path—but not a requirement.

Independent. Rigorous. Trusted by the industry.

• SE Labs methodologies are fully published and standards-based

• No pay-to-play testing

• Vendors do not control results