So Moy, the 42-year-old president of NSS Labs, wants to let the laws of supply and demand even the odds.
But NSS has argued that those standards are largely created by the antivirus industry itself and suffer from conflicts of interest.
The joint committee on the government's National Security Strategy (NSS) said the full or partial collapse of the single currency was "plausible".
The legal challenge was launched in 2010 after the NSS was contacted by Mr Bone, who was a Bideford town councillor at the time.
In the White House, he previously served as the head of strategic communications for the National Security Council and as the NSS chief of staff.
Moy says NSS will carefully screen customers to sell only to known companies and agencies, and will use encryption keys to make sure it's not selling to impostors.
When NSS tested alternative versions of the exploit that targeted the same vulnerability in software, Symantec only spotted 53%, less than more than half of the other products tested.
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And, while the committee welcomed the government's decision to publish the NSS alongside the 2010 Strategic Defence and Security Review, it said that "a clear over-arching strategy" had not yet emerged.
Those low numbers mean that exploit prevention tools should never be used as a substitute for more basic security practices like keeping software updated and patched, says NSS Labs president Rick Moy.
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And when the NSS does produce figures comparable to the census, they closely match it (for example, the NSS and census figures for the child sex ratio in 2001 and 2011 are almost identical).
On the basis of the national sample surveys (NSS), they calculate that India's sex ratio at birth swung from 924 females per 1, 000 males in 2004-05 to 977 in 2011, a stunning turnaround in favour of girls.
On Monday, Dillon Beresford, an analyst for security auditing firm NSS Labs, took aim at Siemens in a message to a mailing list devoted to supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) software used in physical systems like power plants and factories.
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Moy says that the poor results of the NSS test are particularly surprising given that the vulnerabilities the lab tested were publicly described by government sources like CERT and MITRE, and the exploits they used came from the open-source penetration testing framework Metasploit.
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