Recent Network World Benchmarking Test Results Discussed
by Adam Stein on 22 January 2008 - 12:16:24 PM
This first Mu Line blog topic focuses on how both service
providers and their suppliers are integrating automated negative testing
throughout their respective deployment and development lifecycles to reduce
downtime due to product weaknesses and vulnerabilities – many of which are
unique to their customers differing network use cases. Network World recently benchmarked more than
a dozen leading security products to separate “real world” metrics from vendor
claims. The results detail each
product’s ability to stand firm against malicious attack traffic (e.g. Denial
of Service packets), showing what percentage of the known (or published)
vulnerabilities in each category (attacks against clients, and against servers)
was caught by each participant’s UTM’s IPS blade – Juniper, Cisco, IBM/ISS,
Fortinet and SonicWall were among the participants. Opus One Network World Test lead Joel Snyder
asks a very basic question that many enterprises want to know:
Are there consistently secure unified threat management
(UTM) firewalls with the chops to provide robust, resilient, always-available
and secure perimeter security functions that an enterprise needs?
The answers: It depends and not always.
On a related note, Snyder this week benchmarked the
signature capability of the SourceFire IPS – How
we tested SourceFire’s 3D system - and found it needs help. Best advice from a two new Mu customers in
the service provider and critical infrastructure markets – Always Plan for the
Unexpected.
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