By Mike Stephenson
Excerpt:
"How we tested …
"We used our newly implemented attack pod to test these unified threat management products. The attack pod consists of two scanners and a penetration tool plus a command and control center. The scanners are Nessus 3 and NetClarity. The penetration tool is Core Impact. We are adding the Mu 4000 vulnerability analysis tool to the pod (to be reviewed as a First Look next month), but we did not have it implemented fully in time for these tests …
"NetClarity and Core Impact are premier tools of their types. Both are rated SC Magazine Lab Approved, and we love having them in our test suite. Because we have tested the anti-malware capabilities of all of these UTMs in the past, we did not focus on such things as catch rates. We were interested, however, in how well the anti-malware capabilities meld with the core UTM functionality. We also were interested in reporting and how easy the product was to manage. In general, just about any of these products will do a credible job for you."
Source: SC Magazine
