SECUREIQLAB Report. Palo Alto Networks is dominate in blocking sophisticated command-and-control attacks.
Palo Alto Networks just crushed it. Our Next-Generation Firewalls (NGFWs) emerged as the clear and only leader in SecureIQLab’s Q1 2025 comparative report.
SecureIQLab put six on-premises NGFWs to the test against the most evasive command-and-control (C2) attacks — Cobalt Strike and Empire.
The overall block rate wasn’t even close:
Check out all the results in SecureIQLab’s Next-Generation Firewall Command and Control Prevention Comparative Report.
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