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Recent Tests

March 18th, 2004 -- Security Appliances: Little Boxes, Big Bite

Our Test Plan

First, the devices were put on the edge of the Cal Poly NetPRL network. There, each was configured to port-forward SMTP, HTTP, FTP and SSH traffic to servers on the DMZ while allowing traffic from the LAN to the WAN. In addition, we turned on logging and investigated each device's advanced features implementation, including content filtering, antivirus and intrusion detection. Then we moved the devices into the lab for some performance tests; we monitored throughput and latency and the impact of advanced features on these measurements. In addition, we were "fortunate" to have the MyDoom virus arrive during our tests--24 hours after its release, we ran it through each device to see which vendors had updated their virus definitions. [more]

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