
Originally Posted by
Primo
Seems there are doubts over the people who did the tests on your OP though.
WatchGuard was the only vendor to be handed a below-average rating on both axes – enterprise management and security effectiveness, and TCO per protected Mbps. Its XTM 2050 appliance was found to detect only about half of the evasion techniques NSS testers threw at it.
Taylor expressed his frustrations at the results and questioned whether NSS was truly independent from the vendors it tests.
“This industry really needs an impartial testing house that can do a real deep dive on how these boxes perform,” he said.
“NSS started off as that but the new owner has taken the reputation NSS has built up and parlayed that into revenue and taken it into the ‘pay to play’ space.”