Outpost Firewall Pro 2009 ahead of 30+ competitors

As many of you have noticed, Outpost Firewall Pro 2009, released on July 2, 2008, has already come out on top in the most recent Firewall Challenge test. This test, performed by Matousec Transparent Security (www.matousec.com) on July 3 and 4, 2008, put Outpost ahead of more than 30 other personal firewalls and security suites, receiving a 99 % efficiency rating in leak-tests.

Leak-tests are not the only challenge security software should be able to resist. Matousec Transparent Security also analyses firewall efficiency in

• general bypassing tests that emulate malware attempts to bypass protection generally without targeting specific components;
• termination tests that emulate attempts to disable the product and its defense functions;
• spying tests (including keyloggers and packet sniffers) that test whether a product is able to prevent malware from spying on a user’s data;
• performance tests

Matousec Transparent Security has recently implemented a new, even stricter and more challenging, methodology of testing, which is described on the researcher’s web-site at http://www.matousec.com. Detailed test results are available at http://www.matousec.com/projects/firewall-challenge/results.php.

Alexey Belkin,
Chief Software Architect, Agnitum