PAN gets low score on NSS test

[hoehn]

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."

[bat · Accepted solution]

Hi hoehn

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

Thanks

[hoehn]

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.

[eberglund]

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

--Eric