The NSS Labs Report for Next Generation Firewalls was released earlier this year. Our Senior Security Consultant, Elliott Abraham, gives his professional opinion about the report and Dell SonicWall’s performance. Watch the video below.

The NSS Labs Report is an independent study testing Next Generation Firewalls (NGFW) against their vendors’ specifications, and it is a comparative analysis of security effectiveness and value. Value was measured by the total cost of ownership per protected Mbps (megabits per second), and the testing revealed that Dell SonicWall was among the top performers, coming out with a ‘Recommended’ rating for the fourth year in a row. Dell Sonicwall had a 97.9% security effectiveness rate and $15.46 TCO (total cost of ownership) per protected Mbps. Dell SonicWall also surpassed its vendor-claimed performance. Dell SonicWall rates its device at 12 Gbps. However in the study, Dell SonicWall was rated at 16,395 Mbps by NSS. The study clearly shows the great performance and value that Dell SonicWall delivers as a top-of-the-line NGFW.

Our security engineer, Elliott, perfectly describes the performance of Dell SonicWall. He describes it by saying, “It simply works.” When compared with competitors, such as CheckPoint and Palo Alto, SonicWall is simply a better option for a number of reasons. The study revealed that SonicWall is a better value than other NGFW options. The combination of having an above average security effectiveness rate of 97.5% and a value of $15.46 TCO per protected Mbps can’t be beat.

SonicWall provides a unique capability that Elliott describes in the video as “Actionable Intelligence.” Other NGFWs are able to show customers what is actually going on in their network and display all the threats and vulnerabilities that exist. However, SonicWall takes it one step further and is able to not only show what is going on in the network, but enable users to seamlessly act on those risks. Lastly, Sonicwall provides patented reassembly free deep packet inspection. Again, this capability isn’t new. SonicWall is able to inspect every byte of every packet regardless of file size. Other NGFW have a file size limit and, as a result, have to fragment the packets in order to perform deep packet inspection, which gives malware and other threats an opportunity to pass through uninspected. SonicWall prevents this by providing patented reassembly free deep packet inspection regardless of file size.

NSS Labs NGFW Study proves that Dell SonicWall is an exceptional firewall for any network. In this ever-changing technology landscape, threats are evolving every day. SonicWall is purposely built to protect customers against these threats.