What is Palo Alto Networks Afraid Of?

While I don't typically read End User License Agreements, I was pointed to the following phrase that exists in the End User License Agreement for Palo Alto Networks equipment:

1.3 License Restrictions: End user shall maintain Products in strict confidence and shall not: [...] (d) disclose, publish or otherwise make publicly available any benchmark, performance or comparison tests that End User runs (or has run on its behalf by a third party) on the Products;

I trust you can think through the implications of this restriction on your own. It certainly adds additional color to the recent public spat between NSS and Palo Alto Networks.

Dameon D. Welch-Abernathy

Dameon D. Welch-Abernathy, widely known as “PhoneBoy”, is the guy behind the old PhoneBoy FireWall-1 FAQ that thousands of Check Point customers used back in the late 1990s and early 2000s. He is also the author of Essential Check Point FireWall-1 NG: An Installation, Configuration, and Troubleshooting Guide and has nearly two decades of experience in IT and Information Security.

PhoneBoy is currently a Security Architect for Check Point Software Technologies. He provides security architecture design and consults on product integration for Check Point’s sales teams worldwide. He also, on occasion, blogs his own thoughts on Information Security here.

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PhoneBoy’s Security Theater

Views on Information Security from the guy who brought you ye olde PhoneBoy FireWall-1 FAQ

What is Palo Alto Networks Afraid Of?