On Tuesday August 2, 2016, Fortinet, Inc. (NASDAQ: FTNT) published the results of NSS Labs’ latest Breach Detection Systems (BDS) Group Test. NSS Labs, Inc., based in Austin, Texas, tested nine products from seven BDS vendors for security effectiveness, performance, and total cost of ownership. The two Fortinet products tested, the FortiSandbox 3000D Appliance and FortiSandbox Cloud Service, both received a ‘Recommended’ rating.
After the test results were made public by NSS Labs, John Maddison, senior vice president of products and solutions at Fortinet, explained:
“Cyber criminals are evolving new attack strategies at an alarming rate and creating a situation in which the time from breach to full compromise occurs in minutes. This makes rapid detection and automated response a key component for defense. We are honored to receive NSS Labs Recommendations for Breach Detection, which reinforce the effectiveness of our sandbox solutions. These new test results combined with additional NSS Labs Recommended components across our Security Fabric offerings complete the critical steps of converting rapid detection into automatic mitigation to protect against the most advanced threats facing organizations today.”
Fortinet’s two submissions scored well. The FortiSandbox 3000D with FortiClient achieved an overall breach detection rate of 99% and detected 100% of the malware attacking offline devices that aren’t protected within the boundaries of a corporate network. The FortiGate 500D with FortiSandbox Cloud Service for mid-sized businesses and smaller enterprise organizations earned an overall breach detection score of 99.4% and demonstrated exceptional time to detection.
Releasing the results of the test, Thomas Skybakmoen, distinguished research director at NSS Labs, said:
“Breach Detection Systems are supposed to find attacks that other security products miss. Detection rate, time to detect, and false positive rates are critical metrics for enterprises to consider when purchasing a breach detection system.”
BDS products are those that claim to expose malware that goes undetected by off-the-rack security products. Consequently, intrusions by leading antivirus products were ignored and only unknown and highly evasive attacks taken into account in the tests.
The BDS market is growing quickly. In 2015, the BDS market expanded at a rate of 52 percent to $1.086 billion. It is projected to have a compound annual growth rate (CAGR) of 25 percent through 2020, reaching a market size of over $3.315 billion.
Fortinet is a leading global provider of network security appliances for carriers, data centers, enterprises and distributed offices. Its Fortinet Security Fabric provides a comprehensive range of solutions to detect and prevent cyber-attacks from the Internet of Things (IoT) to the Cloud. Fortinet had revenues of $1.01 billion in 2015. The company has over 4,600 employees.
For more information, visit www.Fortinet.com
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