Check Point Infinity NGFW Earns NSS Recommended in Next Generation Firewall Test
June 2017 by Emmanuelle Lamandé
Check Point has achieved a ’Recommended’ rating in the 2017 NSS
Labs, an independent security product testing and research, Next Generation
Firewall (NGFW) Group Test.
The NSS ’Recommended’ rating for NGFW reinforces Check Point’s goal of delivering
the most effective and efficient security to customers across all network segments.
The Check Point 15600 Next Generation Threat Prevention solution, part of Check
Point Infinity, was submitted to this NSS test and it delivered an Exploit Block
Rate of 99.56%.
Highlights of Check Point’s results from the NSS Labs 2017 report include:
– 100% protection against recent attacks (2013 - 2016) and against Apple,
IBM and Oracle vulnerabilities
– 99.9% protection against Microsoft and 99.2% protection against Adobe
vulnerabilities
– $18 TCO per Protected-Mbps
The test included more than 6,600 exploits, 137 evasion
techniques in 10 different categories and multiple performance, capacity, stability
and reliability measures-including five different traffic mixes.