Miercom was engaged by Check Point to conduct competitive security effectiveness testing of the Check Point Enterprise and Hybrid Mesh Firewall compared to products from Cisco, Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks and Zscaler. Testing included verifying the effectiveness of anti-virus, anti-malware, anti-bot, URL Filtering (URLF), sandboxing, AI/ML and phishing protection engines.

In this report, Zero+1 Day Malware (one day past Zero-Day discovery) means newly discovered malware on the first day of discovery. These malware samples are less likely to be known by any vendor’s signature detection mechanisms in the first 24 hours.