WatchGuard

La prestigiosa rivista indipendente americana Communication News ha testato Fortinet, Sonicwall, Juniper e... Watchguard.

WatchGuard ha battuto TUTTI!!

Non solo a livello di performaces ma soprattuto a livello di sicurezza!!

La tecnologia proxy e filtraggio a livello 7 e' imbattibile.

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I am pleased to report that WatchGuard is prominently and positively positioned in this month's "Cover Story" in Communications News:

Unlike other magazine reviews, this one is of particular interest and credence due in part by how we were reviewed against the likes of Juniper, Fortinet and SonicWall. Communications News used Miercom, an independent 3rd party labs group.

There are several key messages and supporting quotes that you will want to use and leverage from this round-up. Although the products were not compared directly against each other (hence, why there is no "winner" or "loser"), the article provides us with great ammunition that supports WatchGuard and shoots down our main competitors. The following are key highlights and quotes that you can use immediately!

Key message: WatchGuard protects better and provides greater security than any other UTM appliance.

"Comprehensive security provision is asking a lot of one box, especially at enterprise-level demand. Three of the four tested units failed to block many of the security threats delivered by the three security effectiveness test systems. The Watchguard Firebox Peak X 8500e was the exception and performed well on all security effectiveness tests."

Here is a break-down of who blocked what. Again to reiterate, because of our proxy technology and aggressive security posture, WatchGuard protects better than anyone else!

WatchGuard - "During the throughput testing, the 8500e interpreted a massive amount of data sent by the Ixia over six ports as a DoS attack, and immediately blocked all traffic. It also blocked 97 percent of the threats generated by a MuDynamics PVA test and 99 percent of those by the BreakingPoint."
Juniper - "The SSG-550 was the only UTM not capable of scanning the 200 Mb AV-testing files generated as part of Miercom’s own testing suite. The box could scan files under 30 MB without difficulty but could not deal with files larger than 30 MB. The SSG-550 blocked 48 percent of the threats generated by the BreakingPoint security appliance."
Fortinet - "The Fortinet FortiGate 3016B blocked 92 percent of the threats generated by a MuDynamics PVA test and 44 percent of those by the BreakingPoint."
SonicWall - "The E75000 blocked 99 percent of the threats generated by a MuDynamics PVA test and 50 percent of those by the BreakingPoint."

As well, you might like to use the "strengths/weaknesses" from a competitive standpoint:

WatchGuard Strengths - "Proxy-based filtering is most effective at blocking malicious traffic. Well-designed front panel display."
Juniper Weaknesses - "Throughput not consistent with all services. Time-consuming method to search through logs for detected intrusions."
Fortinet Weaknesses - "Lower overall throughput when all services enabled. Virus detection requires AV policy be turned on in all network directions, not just the direction virus is coming from."
SonicWall Weakness - "Unreliable management interface for upgrading firmware and signatures. Non-intuitive, disorganized deep-packet inspection setup."
And the WatchGuard Weakness? - "Single power-supply does not provide on-device redundancy" (which is addressed in the XTM 1050 -- in other words, this is a non-issue!)

And finally, here are some key quotes about WatchGuard in the review:

"The WatchGuard approach to security is different than the others in this review. Using proxy-based technology, all traffic is blocked except for that allowed by the network administrator. This system provides the most security since all traffic is treated suspect and not allowed to enter the LAN, preventing the propagation of threats."
"The X 8500e tested came in a UTM bundle, a package that includes everything needed for comprehensive network protection."
"To provide zero-day attack protection–meaning the blocking of threats as soon as they are launched, and before they have been identified and included in the signature databases–WatchGuard uses protocol anomaly detection (which turns away traffic that does not conform to established protocol standards), pattern matching (blocking risky files by fully inspecting the whole packet) and behavior analysis (to derail traffic coming from sources that are acting suspiciously)