NGFW achieves highest security effectiveness

While next generation firewalls(NGFWs) have historically been thought of as security products, it’s surprising how few vendors deliver security that actually works.

We’ve spent the last decade researching, developing, and creating technology for defeating ever-increasing advanced threats. With Forcepoint NGFW, we didn’t just sprinkle security on top of high-performance networking, we built it right into our multi-ISP connectivity, delivered via high-availability clustered gateways that are centrally managed, even at enterprise scale.

We also scored well on NSS Labs’ “weighted cost of ownership” measurement, even though our centralized management is geared towards administering hundreds or thousands of devices rather than setting up single units.

It’s certainly nice to see other vendors finally starting to take evasions seriously (for which we give a lot of credit to NSS Labs). At this stage, there is no excuse for any vendor to perform poorly on evasions. We’ve all known about them for years, including that they can’t just be addressed through old approaches like signatures. Unfortunately, even vendors who manage to pass NSS Labs’ tests are often still vulnerable (and we have the video of them letting in ransoware to prove it), so it pays to be diligent.