VARINDIA IT MAGAZINE

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Check Point  has earned NSS Labs' "Recommended" rating in the latest intrusion prevention system (IPS) group test. The  Check Point  IPS Software Blade has achieved 98.3-per cent score in overall protection with superior server and client protection and strong management capabilities.  Bob Walder, Director, Research,  NSS Labs , said, "Resistance to known evasion techniques.... more

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (CHKP) has announced Check Point ThreatCloud - the first collaborative network to fight cybercrime that powers new Anti-Bot and Antivirus Software Blades by feeding threat updates directly to customers’ gateways providing customers with threat information and attack trends to enforce protection against bots, APTs and other sophisticated forms of malware  Bhaskar Bakthavatsalu, Regional Director - India & SAARC, Check Point Software Technologies said, “Check Point Threatcloud is based on a global collaboration to increase volume, quality and speed of threat intelligence, this enables customers to quickly respond to threats and apply the appropriate protections to their gateways before they spread to the rest of the system. With emerging forms of viruses being generated on a daily basis in India, the introduction of ThreatCloud helps bring about awareness on the significant information along w...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Check Point has announced the results of a new survey revealing 65 per cent of organizations which experienced targeted attacks report the hacker's motivation was driven by financial fraud, and resulted in business disruption and the loss of sensitive information, including intellectual property and trade secrets. The report, The Impact of Cybercrime on Businesses, also showed companies reporting an average of 66 new security attack attempts per week, with successful incidents costing businesses anywhere from $100,000 to $300,000.  "In the increasingly connected business scenario in India, employees often use and respond to requests and information that come online from both inside and outside the organization. This connectivity enables cybercriminals to make approaches to the employees from the relative anonymity of the Internet. As we become more adept in personal technology, our expectations for how we can use it at w...

VARINDIA- INDIA'S FRONTLINE IT MAGAZINE   Check Point has announces that they are providing innovative security solutions that aim to meet customer needs and help reduce security complexity. The IPS Software Blade stands as a testimony to its speed of resolution and protection from the attack of ‘FLAME’. It provides immediate protection by detecting the presence of Flame malware and prevents its propagation. The Flame malware, also known as SkyWiper and Flamer, is a modular suite of malicious software that is known to have been used for cyber-espionage in several Middle Eastern countries, whose impact is 20 times greater than the Stuxnet worm, discovered in 2010. Also all versions of Windows are susceptible to infection by Flame which makes the threat highly severe. Bhaskar Bakthavatsalu, Regional Director - India & SAARC, Check Point Software Technologies said, “Check Point IPS Software Blade helps to tackle the irrecoverable data loss owing to the FLAME virus whi...