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OESISOK™ Firewall Criteria - Version 1.1

OESISOK™ Firewall designation is available for personal firewall applications. Applications submitted for certification must meet the following criteria before they are designated OESISOK.

Installation Test

A submitted application is installed on all supported operating systems. In order to complete this test, it must clear all of the following checks:

• The application installer completes without errors on all supported operating system and language combinations reflected in application documentation.

Rogue Application Test

A submitted application is checked against known lists of rogue applications. In order to complete this test, it must clear all of the following checks:

• Application or its vendor is not listed as ”rogue” according to the OPSWAT internal database.
• Application installer and binaries are scanned against multiple anti-malware engines listed below. None of the following engines should report any application file as “suspicious”, “threat” or other nomenclature indicative of the submitted application being rogue.

  • Spybot Search & Destroy 1.5
  • Lavasoft Ad-Aware 2007 Free Edition
  • Symantec Antivirus
  • McAfee VirusScan
  • CA eTrust™
  • Norman Virus Control
  • ESET NOD32 Antivirus Engine
  • VirusBuster EDK
  • Microworld eScan Engine
  • Kaspersky Anti-Virus®
  • ClamAV

OESIS® Local Detection Test

A submitted application is checked to ensure it will be detected by the OESIS Framework.

Appendix - Verification Testing

When an application is submitted for the OESISOK Firewall designation, the following tests will be performed for statistical data analysis:

Inbound / Outbound Traffic Test

A submitted firewall application is set to the highest protection level before performing the following tests:

• Leak Test: Performed for outbound traffic monitoring.
• Port Scanning: Scans the system for open ports. The result of a port scan is usually generalized into one of three categories:

  • Open or Accepted: The host has sent a reply, indicating that a service is listening on the port.
  • Closed, Denied or Not Listening: The host has sent a reply indicating that connections will be denied to the port.
  • Filtered, Dropped or Blocked: There was no reply from the host

Firewall protection data will be available to OESIS® Customers.