Stonesoft recommended by NSS Labs
To the security world, the NSS Labs Next Generation Firewall Group Test is a bit like the playoffs, the Oscars and the World Cup Finals rolled into one.
Instead of winning a gold-plated trophy, Stonesoft got something even better: our next generation firewall FW-1301 is recommended by NSS Labs – the recognized leader in independent security research and testing.
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The NSS Labs recommended Stonesoft FW-1301 delivers:
100% protection against tested evasions and 98.3% coverage straight out of the box
Stonesoft next generation security products are highly flexible, highly agile and highly available software-based solutions. Our FW-1301 delivered 100% coverage* against year 2011 exploits and evasions in NSS Labs’ 2012 NGFW Group Test straight out of the box, without any tuning.
The most difficult part of using Stonesoft products is opening the box.
(*) NSS Labs NGFW group test: Stonesoft FW-1301 98.3% in average; 2011: 100%; 2010; 97%; 2009: 98%
Stonesoft FW-1301 coverage by date
This graph provides insight into whether a vendor ages out protection signatures aggressively in order to preserve performance levels. It also reveals where a product lags behind in protection for the most recent vulnerabilities.
Source: NSS Labs NGFW Group Test 2012 report
Superb price / performance ratio
Stonesoft next generation firewalls offer enterprise-level security and performance without killer costs.
In the NSS Labs Next Generation Firewall Group Test, the Stonesoft FW-1301 had an excellent price / performance ratio in its class.
All Stonesoft’s software based next generation firewalls provide similar top-of-the-class security with the performance levels of your choice and need.
Get the best protection against Advanced Evasion Techniques
Even though Advanced Evasion Techniques (AETs) were discovered and reported by Stonesoft in 2010, the other vendors still downplay the threat of AETs. Some are investigating, some are doing nothing and some have turned to Stonesoft for help.
The bottom line is that in 2012, Stonesoft next generation security products offer the only real protection against AETs on the market.
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“Stonesoft is focused on network security and has been very innovative in analyzing threat evasion techniques…Stonesoft is assessed as a niche player for enterprises because it serves a set of placements well – usually for strong central management where protection against evasion attacks is key.”
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Intuitive centralized management
One of the reasons the Stonesoft FW-1301 is recommended by NSS Labs is that our next generation security products provide contextual awareness of applications, users and situations across the entire network security infrastructure.
The Stonesoft management system also provides easy-to-read and utilize visualizations, views, reports and lists to improve security decision making capabilities.
Stonesoft next generation firewalls are perfect for highly distributed companies with the need for enterprise-level security, infrastructure and performance.
“Stonesoft’s management interface was well designed and intuitive. For users of Stonesoft firewalls, there will not be much of a learning curve. Tuning and maintenance is simple and well thought out, keeping with the overall theme and ease of use.”
NSS Labs Next Generation Firewall Group Test Report
Source: NSS Labs NGFW Group Test 2012 report
Using the default policy, the FW-1301 blocked 97% of attacks against client applications and 93.9% overall. Stonesoft FW-1301 5.3.3 correctly identified and blocked 100% of our evasion attempts without error. The product successfully passed 1.6 Gbps of inspected traffic, and in a typical network this could be considered an accurate rating given the headroom available. NSS Labs rates throughput based upon an average of the results from tests: “Real World” Protocol Mix (Perimeter), “Real World” Protocol Mix (Core), and 21 KB HTTP Response respectively.
Source: NSS Labs NGFW Group Test 2012 report
Neil Mc Donald from Gartner discusses next generation security
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Neil MacDonald from Gartner discusses next generation security
