Check Point wins URL filtering tests

摘要

URL filtering has become a "check box" feature on most unified threat management firewalls, and no wonder: It doesn't require a lot of imagination to do it right, and it's hard to really differentiate yourself or do a bad job of it. Three of the vendors tested - SonicWall, Fortinet, and Barracuda - had nearly identical interfaces to define URL filtering policy. There are some minor differences - for example, Fortinet had a cute feature that would limit the amount of time you could spend on a category ("you can look at sports pages, but only for five minutes"), but generally there was little difference.