Third-party test labs can help buyers make decisions about which products to purchase. While a testing lab can’t mimic the conditions of your specific production environment, it can assess a product’s fundamental capabilities and measure throughput, performance, and–in the case of security devices–effectiveness against a test suite of malware or attack techniques.
On today’s episode we talk with Vik Phatak, CEO of CyberRatings, a non-profit organization that tests IT equipment such as firewalls and other security gear and services. We discuss how the organization develops and performs its tests, how it decides which gear or services to assess, the level of vendor involvement in the testing, how results are delivered, and more.
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