Wedge Networks and The Tolly Group have teamed up to test BeSecure Web Security Appliances in order to see how they can dramatically increase malware protection for organizations currently using Unified Threat Management appliances and Next Generation Firewalls.
The Wedge Networks Security Response and Information (SRI) Team encountered multiple organizations with Unified Threat Management (UTM) appliances and Next-generation firewalls as key pieces in their IT security protection scheme. While these appliances worked well as firewalls and for other specific applications these organizations were still experiencing virus, trojan, worm, and malicious code penetrating their networks causing serious outages, data loss, and wasting IT resources. Organizations did not know why these attacks continued to get past their established perimeter or believed there was actually no way to stop these malicious attacks.
To learn more about this problem the Wedge (SRI) team commissioned independent testing by The Tolly Group to evaluate a UTM appliances' ability to protect an organization from viruses, trojans, worms, and other malicious content.
A BeSecure Web Security Appliance running the Anti Virus Module went head to head with a FortiGate 3600A UTM appliance. After a range of testing done by The Tolly Group a comparison was done on the ability of each appliance to handle the performance needs of an organization and in ability to stop malicious attacks.
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While today's firewalls and Unified Threat Management (UTM) solutions provide effective firewalling capability, comprehensive anti virus detection with good throughput performance often requires a complementary solution such as the Wedge Networks BeSecure Web Security Appliance.
The Wedge Networks BeSecure NDP2040 Web Security Appliance illustrated both better anti virus effectiveness and consistently greater throughput for web traffic in tests across a pair of Gigabit Ethernet connections when compared with the FortiGate 3600A UTM appliance.
The BeSecure NDP2040 consistently outperformed the FortiGate 3600A in tests of web (HTTP) throughput.
In the concurrency test, the Wedge results remained consistent. The Fortinet solution, however, became resource constrained and “failed open” allowing traffic to pass without inspection and virus files to be transmitted undetected.
Performance testing involved expanding the payload size in both directions with tests ranging from a payload size of 10KB up to 10MB. Wedge outperformed Fortinet by as much as 83% with smaller payloads and 26% with the 10MB payload.