Cyber assessment nonprofit finds cloud-native firewalls inadequate for defending against advanced attacks

Cloud-native firewalls offered by major service providers performed significantly worse in vulnerability testing compared to third-party firewalls when targeted with advanced attack methods, according to the latest results from nonprofit assessment firm CyberRatings.org.

“Best-of-suite (native) solutions need significant improvement compared to best-of-breed (third party) cloud network firewalls,” CyberRatings says in an April 2 report detailing takeaways from testing conducted on 10 firewall solutions.

The latest testing results build on a November 2024 report that detailed the “first phase”...