SDxCentral: Hyperscaler cloud firewalls (again!) fail to meet basic security standards

CyberRatings.org, the independent non-profit organization dedicated to putting confidence into cybersecurity product quality, perhaps can be likened to one of those little “conscience cherubs” who whispers in a cloud provider‘s ear, imploring it to do the right thing when it comes to maintaining cybersecurity services.

It’s apparent, however, that some companies aren’t paying full attention to some good advice.

The Austin-based CyberRatings team on April 2 released its Q1 2025 Comparative Test Report on Cloud Network Firewalls (CNFW), along with separate in-depth reports for each of the 10 top cloud firewall solutions tested. Security effectiveness results for all vendors ranged from 0% to 100%.

CyberRatings, which releases these reports periodically to the enterprise security community, included in this latest edition evaluations of third-party firewall solutions deployed across AWS, Azure, and GCP environments. As they have in the past, none of the Big Three performed well.

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