NetSecOPEN Fair Testing Has Arrived!

In a previous blog, I highlighted the merits of open standards-based assessments for today’s modern content-aware network security and inspection solutions. Understanding how well solutions work under a multitude of performance vectors can guide users with consistent empirical data on how well these solutions will work when under real-world conditions. NetSecOPEN has brought this to a reality via the IETF Benchmarking Methodology for Network Security Device Performance draft-02, allowing vendors and users alike to size up a solution’s capability via reliable, repeatable and transparent test constructs. The industry analyst firm HardenStance made a recent observation “The number of lawsuits between vendors and independent test firms in recent years points to how trust in third party security product testing is breaking down.” 1

No longer does the industry have to rely on inconsistent, “paid to play” private lab results that many times do not represent a solution’s real capability when used in mission critical environments... i.e. your network!

Well, all that work to create a new standards body has paid off. In mid-February of 2020, four major security solution vendors achieved NetSecOPEN certification. Cisco, Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks and SonicWall have all gained NetSecOPEN certification and have published full reports on specific firewalls via the NetSecOPEN standards methodologies. What does this mean?

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