{"id":100129,"date":"2019-07-17T06:02:10","date_gmt":"2019-07-17T13:02:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/?p=100129"},"modified":"2019-07-26T12:04:05","modified_gmt":"2019-07-26T19:04:05","slug":"palo-alto-networks-achieves-highest-security-effectiveness-score-recommended-rating-nss-labs-2019-ngfw-group-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/2019\/07\/palo-alto-networks-achieves-highest-security-effectiveness-score-recommended-rating-nss-labs-2019-ngfw-group-test\/","title":{"rendered":"NSS Labs 2019 NGFW Group Test: Highest Security Effectiveness Score"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We are excited to announce that Palo Alto Networks has achieved the highest Security Effectiveness score among all twelve products included in this year\u2019s NSS Labs NGFW group test.\u00a0 Our NGFW blocked 100% of evasions, and it earned a \u201cRecommended\u201d rating.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Highlights from our test results include:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Highest Security Effectiveness score<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">100% evasions blocked (406 out of 406)<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">97.87% NSS exploit block rate<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">We believe our strong performance in the NSS Labs NGFW Group test validates our prevention-first philosophy.\u00a0 Our next-generation firewalls prevent successful cyberattacks with an architecture you can easily deploy and operate.\u00a0 Using automation, we reduce manual effort so that IT and security teams can focus on high-value activities. And we continue to deliver new innovations that are natively integrated, making them easy to adopt.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In this test, NSS Labs evaluated 12 firewall products with 406 different evasion techniques, more than 2000 exploit tests and over 70 throughput measurements.\u00a0 The PA-5220 running PAN-OS 8.1.6-h2 was evaluated with the Threat Prevention subscription enabled. Since this test was run we\u2019ve added even more functionality and performance in PAN-OS 9.0; we expect the customer experience to keep getting better and better.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Our NGFW is an integral part of the Palo Alto Networks Security Operating Platform.\u00a0 Through the power of the platform, your organization can continually improve security effectiveness and efficiency throughout your environment: across the network, in the cloud and at the endpoints, including servers and mobile devices.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/start.paloaltonetworks.com\/nss-labs-highest-security-effectiveness-rating.html\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Read the full Test Report and Comparative Report on Security<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Palo Alto Networks Achieves Highest Security Effectiveness Score, \u201cRecommended\u201d Rating in NSS Labs 2019 NGFW Group Test.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":186,"featured_media":100137,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[6765],"tags":[111,1148],"coauthors":[1915],"class_list":["post-100129","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-secure-the-enterprise","tag-ngfw","tag-nss-labs"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/07\/nss-19-ngfw-social_blog-600x300.png","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100129","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/186"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100129"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100129\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":100486,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100129\/revisions\/100486"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/100137"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100129"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100129"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100129"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www2.paloaltonetworks.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=100129"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}