Cloud-native firewalls offered by major service providers performed significantly worse in vulnerability testing compared to third-party firewalls when targeted with advanced attack methods, according to the latest results from nonprofit assessment firm CyberRatings.org.
“Best-of-suite (native) solutions need significant improvement compared to best-of-breed (third party) cloud network firewalls,” CyberRatings says in an April 2 report detailing takeaways from testing conducted on 10 firewall solutions.
The latest testing results build on a November 2024 report that detailed the “first phase” of cloud-native firewall evaluation from the nonprofit and revealed shortcomings in firewall solutions native to Google, Amazon Web Services and Microsoft cloud offerings.
The new report is more extensive and goes into how some firewalls fail to protect against “evasion” techniques that hackers use to conceal their activities.
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