Introducing Minion by NSS Labs
Quality Managed
Testing as a Service
Minion is a managed security testing platform developed by NSS Labs that delivers independent, real-world validation of your security controls. It delivers periodic, audit-defensible evidence that your deployed controls actually work – all without the overhead of running it yourself.
Built for Leaders Across Industries
Enterprises
Service Providers
Cybersecurity Vendors
Government
What Minion Delivers
Quickly Validate and Assess
Executive-level summaries and detailed technical output to help assess and validate products before procurement or rollout.
Aligns with Regulatory and Audit Requirements
Aligns with regulatory mandates and cybersecurity frameworks requiring control validation, risk quantification, and audit documentation.
Managed, Not Burdened
NSS Labs handles the heavy lifting of effectiveness, performance, and suitability testing, so you can separate assumptions from reality.
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Enterprise Firewall
Rigorous testing of enterprise grade next-generation firewall platforms against evolving threat scenarios.
Cloud Network Firewall
Independent validation of cloud-native firewall products across public cloud and co-located deployments.
SMB Firewall
Validate the real-world effectiveness of firewall solutions deployed in small and mid-sized environments.
More test categories coming soon.
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Backed by Decades of Testing Expertise
5,700 + evasion samples
for exploits & malware
for exploits & malware
10,000+ curated exploit samples
drawn from 250,000+ CVEs
drawn from 250,000+ CVEs
15,000 + app and content samples
for false positive testing
for false positive testing
100,000+ malicious URLs
sourced daily
sourced daily
1,000,000+ “in the wild”
malware samples
malware samples