Just as customers like to hear promises of security, vendors love to make them. In 1913, UL tested the first 'security devices'. With this expansion into security devices, they recognized the need to replace the word 'Approved' with the words 'Inspected' or 'Listed'. Due to what UL has established with security devices, customers are not lulled into a false sense of security and vendors do not make outrageous claims. Customers are presented with 'product x is rated at rating y' rather than 'its ICSA certified'.
Vendors claim to be resistant to certain toolsets for certain amounts of time.
This is not what the computer security field looks like today, but is where it needs to go. The manufacturer and consumer must realize that testing 'security' is not the same as testing 'functionality' and because of that, claims need to be adjusted to fit reality. If a door-knob opens a door, the door works. If a safe-lock opens when you dial the combination, it does not mean the safe works. You can however, perform tests on the safe to assure that it operates as advertised within certain heat and force constraints.