SonicWall announced a new report by The Tolly Group, which
detailed the testing and analysis of the performance of the SonicWall NSv 470
virtual firewall. Using Keysight’s CyPerf cloud-native testing solution to provide
the test infrastructure for standardized, repeatable performance tests, Tolly
benchmarked the throughput and connection performance of the virtual firewall
in Amazon Web Services (AWS).
Most enterprises are moving their datacenters to the cloud and moving away from
traditional on-premises deployments, making it imperative for security teams to
provide the same level of security and performance for cloud server instances
as they have been doing for on-premises physical servers.
“Today’s enterprise solutions demand next-generation firewalls that
perform well within distributed cloud network environments,” said
SonicWall Executive Director of Product Marketing
Kayvon Sadeghi. “Independently validating the performance and security of
SonicWall’s virtual firewall is an important achievement to help organizations
safely adopt secure cloud strategies. Given the speed and volume of cloud
migration today, and the greater complexity of the environment, it’s never been
more important to secure the assets in the cloud.”
Test Methodology and Results
Tolly engineers used three different traffic profiles to collect results:
unencrypted HTTP traffic, encrypted (HTTPS/TLS) traffic and Tolly productivity
traffic mix. Engineers used CyPerf’s unique capability to simulate a traffic
mix from different applications – the Tolly productivity traffic mix include
five applications: JIRA, Office 365, Skype, AWS S3 and Salesforce.
“Today’s disaggregated cloud environments present network equipment
manufacturers (NEMs) with new challenges to validate their offerings,” said Ram
Periakaruppan, vice president and general manager of Keysight’s Network Test
and Security Solutions group. “Understanding how firewalls behave in these new
cloud environments is a key challenge. SonicWall is at the forefront of
publicly demonstrating the performance and security of their next generation
virtual firewall.”
The tests were run against three different security profiles:
- Firewall – Basic firewall functions with no policy set.
- IPS – Firewall with the intrusion prevention system feature enabled.
- Threat Prevention – Firewall with IPS, antivirus, anti-spyware and application
control features enabled.
next-generation virtual firewall we easily configured a test environment in
minutes for standardized and repeatable performance tests in AWS,” said Kevin
Tolly, founder and CEO of the Tolly Group. “With cybercriminal activity and
cloud adoption increasing exponentially, cloud firewalls have become
increasingly important, as they thwart attackers from gaining unauthorized
access to applications, data, workloads and more.”
For complete results and test parameters, please download the report here.
