Outpost Firewall Pro 2009 won the first victory

20th July 2008

Outpost Firewall Pro 2009 released on July the 2nd has already managed to win the first prize, becoming the best by the results of Matousec Transparent Security laboratory testing. Total amount of participated in the testing firewalls is 35, only six of them gained recommendations of the laboratory. For checking the protection of firewalls, a special test on data leakage is developed, which has various methods of attacks, including those used by hackers today. Also they tested the effectiveness by using: common tests for avoiding the protection that imitate malware attempts to avoid the security system of the product as a whole without encroaching on individual components; product disconnection tests, which are intended to take the product and its protective functions out of the operative mode; spy tests that identify the ability of the firewall to prevent “espionage” activities of malicious software concerning user`s data; tests on the performance. It is remarkable, that among triple of leaders there is besides commercial products also free Comodo Firewall Pro. According to the test results firewalls of many famous companies showed very low results, the detailed final table is available for viewing on Matousec web-site.