Next-Gen Firewall Testing: Live Demo and Webcast
by Martha AvilesOne of the biggest frustrations for enterprise IT departments comes when you need to perform a device evaluation. The challenge is even greater when trying to deploy a next-generation firewall or IPS. You can call in all the vendors and get demos of their products, but they will provide high-level information, and any performance or security numbers will be read off a data sheet.
Ultimately you choose a firewall vendor, but you never feel as though you truly understand how well the device is going to work. Will it actually recognize the difference between applications, even at a granular level, such as the difference between Facebook traffic and Facebook messaging traffic? Putting that next-gen firewall/IPS through proper context-aware testing is the only way to be confident it will perform as advertised, and as my colleague Scott recently pointed out, it will save you weeks of troubleshooting.
Next-Gen Testing for Next-Gen Network Security Devices
In order to accurately gauge device performance, you must test next-generation firewalls/IPS devices with the user behavior you see on your own network. That includes the applications you must handle, actual user behavior, and the attacks you expect to see. Doing this prior to deployment not only can save you time and money, but will also ensure that your production network remains resilient.
We get asked a lot about how to properly test next-gen firewalls, so we held a live test and webcast on the topic with BreakingPoint’s Mike Hamilton and Kyle Flaherty. They went through the important items you should test during a next-gen firewall/IPS evaluation, and then they ran actual tests against a Palo Alto firewall to show how traffic and attacks are recognized and handled.
Watch the two-minute preview below and then access the full webcast here.
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