Cyber assessment firm identifies evasion vulnerabilities in enterprise firewall products

A nonprofit cyber assessment firm found vulnerabilities in the ability of widely used enterprise firewall products to block transport and network-layer evasions commonly deployed by cyber attackers, in a report examining the effectiveness of security offerings.

“Enterprise Firewalls are constantly evolving to combat new attacker techniques and tools but sometimes that evolution takes a wrong turn. A vendor can have a near-perfect detection engine but if attackers can bypass that engine it gives them a clear path through your defenses,”...