Organisations demand uncompromising protection against today’s most pressing threats while ensuring minimal disruption to legitimate business operations. Check Point CloudGuard Network Security has just set a new industry benchmark by achieving a 100% exploit block rate including evasions in independent testing conducted by CyberRatings.org (Fig 1.).
Check Point also leads in reducing alert fatigue with an industry highest 100% False Positive Accuracy (Fig 2). With proven resilience against evasions, enterprise-grade reliability, and highest industry block rate, Check Point emerges as an undisputed leader in cloud network security.
How CyberRatings.org Tested Cloud Firewalls
CyberRatings.org conducted rigorous testing across multiple real-world attack scenarios, measuring firewall effectiveness, stability, and impact on legitimate traffic. The key testing criteria included:
Exploit Prevention
- 2,028 exploit samples from widely known and actively exploited vulnerabilities were tested.
False Positives
- 2,760 legitimate business-critical files and applications were tested to ensure security controls did not unnecessarily block valid traffic.
Evasion Techniques
- 2,500 evasion techniques across 27 attack vectors tested firewall defences against sophisticated bypass attempts.
All of these ratings are components of CyberRatings security effectiveness calculation. One of the most important components of the testing is protection from evasion attacks.
Evasion Attacks Explained
Evasions are sophisticated methods attackers use to bypass security controls by disguising malicious traffic or breaking it into small, benign fragments that security tools may fail to recognise.
- Modifying network traffic: Using techniques like fragmentation, encryption, or obfuscation to hide malicious activity from intrusion detection systems (IDS) and intrusion prevention systems (IPS).
- Bypassing firewalls: Finding ways to send malicious traffic through firewalls by exploiting vulnerabilities or using techniques that make it difficult to identify as malicious.
- Defeating malware analysis: Using techniques to make it harder for security analysts to analyse malware, such as sandboxing evasion or polymorphic malware.
Why This Matters
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security provides 100% evasion protection, blocking all TCP, IP, and HTTP-based evasions, including network segmentation techniques, fragmentation manipulations, deceptive transfer encoding, padding, and header modifications.
Unlike cloud service provider firewalls, CloudGuard Network Security test results confirm it as a trusted choice for security teams seeking:
- Industry-leading threat prevention – 100% exploit block rate against real-world cyberattacks.
- Resilience against advanced evasions – Successfully blocked all 27 evasions tested across multiple layers.
- Minimal false positives – 100% accuracy ensures that legitimate business traffic remains uninterrupted.
- Proven reliability – Able to withstand prolonged real-world attack scenarios without compromise.
What You Should Do
While cloud service provider firewalls provide some security, 3rd party firewalls like Check Point CloudGuard Network Security deliver additional security capabilities that reduce the risk of data breach and ransom:
- Advanced security features – more granular access control, IPS, deep packet inspection, application filtering, and sandboxing.
- Reduced management costs with the ability to secure any-to-any network from a single management console: on premises, remote branch, private and public clouds.
- Eliminates cloud vendor lock in – take your Check Point firewall license to any cloud with confidence.
- Cloud native integrations with virtualized network environments to auto-scale up and down based on network traffic load.
Check Point: The Best Choice for Cloud Security
The results from CyberRatings.org reaffirm Check Point CloudGuard Network Security as the gold standard, achieving an industry-leading 100% exploit block rate and 100% false positive accuracy.
The ability to defend against all tested evasion techniques while maintaining operational efficiency demonstrates CloudGuard Network Security superiority in the cloud security landscape. Organizations of all sizes can trust CloudGuard Network Security to proactively block cyber threats before they can inflict harm.
Beyond security effectiveness, seamless integration across all major private and public cloud environments, coupled with centralized management capabilities, makes Check Point a cost-effective and scalable solution. By adopting a third-party firewall like Check Point CloudGuard Network Security, organizations gain enhanced security features, reduced management complexity, and the flexibility to avoid cloud vendor lock-in.
