Background
I am a Senior System Engineer with a professional background in IT infrastructure, network security, and system administration. I have spent years working with enterprise-grade security tools, and I started BestSoftwarePicks to bring that same technical, no-marketing approach to the consumer security software most people actually buy: VPNs, antivirus, and password managers.
How I approach reviews
My background is infrastructure and networking, so I am most confident reasoning about how these tools behave on real systems: protocols, leak protection, install and uninstall behavior, performance impact, and the failure modes that send people searching for a fix at midnight. Where a claim is outside hands-on reach, such as large-scale malware detection rates, I lean on independent labs (AV-TEST, AV-Comparatives) and say so rather than pretending to a test I did not run. Our testing methodology and editorial policy spell out exactly how scores are reached and how affiliate revenue is kept separate from rankings.