Citrix NetScaler AppFirewall Earns “Recommended” Rating in NSS Labs Web Application Firewall Test
October 15 2014 - 8:00AM
Business Wire
NetScaler Delivers High-Performance,
Cost-Effective Protection for Web Assets and Mobile Web
Applications
Citrix today announced that the NetScaler AppFirewall™ web
application security solution has completed testing by NSS Labs,
the world’s leading information security research and advisory
company. The results from the industry’s most comprehensive web
application firewall (WAF) test revealed that NetScaler AppFirewall
delivers the lowest total cost of ownership (TCO) per Protected
Mbps. In today’s market of increased abundance of web and mobile
applications, application firewalls are essential for protection
from attacks and against the loss of valuable data. NetScaler
AppFirewall is a core part of the wider suite of security services
available on the Citrix NetScaler® platform to protect web assets
in the datacenter and the cloud.
NSS Labs is known to conduct the most comprehensive third-party
testing in the industry and provides real-world research and
analysis to information security professionals and C-level
executives. NSS Labs tested the NetScaler AppFirewall against their
Web Application Firewall Methodology, which considers performance,
security effectiveness, stability and reliability, management and
configuration, and TCO. The NetScaler AppFirewall MPX 11520, in
addition to passing all the test categories, outperformed its own
published numbers and had the lowest TCO per Protected Mbps.
Key findings from the report highlight the exceptional firewall
security capabilities provided by NetScaler include:
- Lowest TCO per Protected Mbps in the
Test – Delivers price performance to customers at up to 60
percent less cost than other vendors in the “Recommended”
list.
- Passed 99.77 percent of Web
Application Firewall Tests – Passed comprehensive firewall
security and policy enforcement requirements.
- Passed 100% of Tested Evasions –
Successfully identified and blocked attacks using evasion
techniques.
- Passed 100% of Stability and
Reliability Tests
The full “NSS Labs Web Application Firewall Product Analysis
Report: Citrix NetScaler AppFirewall MPX 11520” can be viewed on
the Citrix website.
NetScaler AppFirewall
NetScaler AppFirewall defends some of the world’s largest web
sites and is available as a standalone appliance or as part of the
NetScaler App Delivery Controller with performance from 500Mbps to
18Gbps. It is available as a physical and virtual appliance or as a
service.
Quote:
Bob Walder, Founder and CTO at NSS Labs
“E-commerce and business depend on Web Application Firewalls to
protect their customer and corporate data from online threats and
are looking for solutions that combine high levels of security with
a low total cost of ownership. Citrix NetScaler AppFirewall earned
a ‘Recommended’ rating from NSS because it not only passed all
security tests, but also had the lowest TCO per Protected Mbps and
exceeded its own published numbers for performance.”
Quote:
Sunil Potti, Vice President and General Manager, Networking,
Cloud and Service Provider Group at Citrix
“Over the last few years, the cyber security landscape has
evolved from brute force network-level threats to sophisticated
application-oriented attacks. Attackers are moving their targets
from traditional servers and operating systems up to web, mobile
and cloud applications that handle mission-critical data. To combat
these new threats, Citrix NetScaler AppFirewall has seen rapid
worldwide adoption and is the centerpiece of our end-to-end
application-centric security platform for mobile and cloud
services. We are honored to be recognized by NSS Labs in a
leadership position with the best TCO offering in the market. This
recognition further amplifies the superior security capabilities
built into NetScaler.”
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