Netgear ProSafe UTMs score in third-party tests

Stephen Withers
Tuesday, 27 October 2009 11:15

Business IT - Security

"While the WildList results speak for themselves, the zoo malware results are particularly important as such older malware is still circulating the globe, wreaking havoc on out-of-date and unprotected computers," said Jason Leung, Netgear's senior product line manager for SMB security.

"Vendors often sacrifice zoo malware catch rates in order to meet growing-business price points. Yet, mass botnet infestations often employ zoo-malware to infect its targets. At ProSecure, we have found a way to deliver security effectiveness and performance at a price point that is attractive to growing businesses and our channel partners alike," he added.

Furthermore, Netgear's ProSecure STM600 did well in tests carried out by independent test centre Miercom to evaluate various appliances' ability to block mail-borne threats including spam, worms and Trojans.

While full results won't be published until November, Netgear claims that the preliminary findings show that the ProSecure appliances are able to stop up to 50% more threats than a competing product from Barracuda.

That 50% apparently applies only to traffic using web protocols, and is therefore broadly in line with the Tolly/AV-Group findings.

Anti-spam testing showed products from all three vendors (Barracuda, Cisco and Netgear) were on a par, stopping almost all spam, while the ProSecure outperformed Barracuda in an email threat test by a margin of 20%.

"The test results speak for themselves," said Leung.

"ProSecure is serious about security.  The fact that we can beat the established players at their own game shows that we bring performance, effectiveness, and value to the medium business space."