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PAN gets low score on NSS test

hoehn — Tue, 30 Sep 2014 02:46:55 GMT

Are the 2014 NSS firewall tests valid? This year's results are quite different than the previous NSS results. Your thoughts?

Palo Alto Networks unexpectedly gets low score on firewall test| Reuters

"NSS Chief Executive Officer Vikram Phatak said that Palo Alto had issued two major revisions to its firewall operating system since the last test." "NSS marked down Palo Alto heavily for failing key tests that determine how easily hackers could evade a firewall's security, Phatak said."

Re: PAN gets low score on NSS test

bat — Tue, 30 Sep 2014 02:53:57 GMT

Hi hoehn

Have you gone through this: http://researchcenter.paloaltonetworks.com/2014/09/response-recently-released-2014-nss-next-generation-firewall-comparative-analysis/

Thanks

Re: PAN gets low score on NSS test

hoehn — Tue, 30 Sep 2014 03:38:56 GMT

csharma Thanks for the link, very helpful -- the 4th bullet is what I was referring to and the responses are a little insightful as well.

Re: PAN gets low score on NSS test

eberglund — Thu, 09 Oct 2014 15:10:52 GMT

There's a new blog post with an update: Update on Recently Released 2014 NSS Next-Generation Firewall Comparative Analysis - Palo Alto Networks BlogPalo Alto Ne…

--Eric