Firewalls admins turning off security to boost performance - bad move

And as the they shut down the levels of security they wonder why they have breaches!!!.
 

Survey uncovers "existential tug-of-war"

By John E. Dunn | Techworld | Published: 11:53, 03 November 2014
 

A third of organisations are turning off some of their next-generation firewall’s (NGFW) security features to boost performance with the most commonly deactivated layer being intrusion prevention, a McAfee survey has discovered.
Of the 504 professional asked, 32 percent admitted deactivating security filtering at some point, with IPS (31 percent), anti-spam (29 percent) and VPN (28 percent) the first to fall as part of what McAfee characterises as an “existential tug-of-war” between network users – who bug the company about performance – and security.
Rather surprisingly, 28 percent also admitted turning off anti-virus, and 23 percent application awareness (filtering for rogue applications). A smaller group hadn’t turned off features so much as never turned them on in the first place so worried were they that performance would take a hit.
 
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