Internal Security
Check Point and Vulnerability Partners
InterSpect with Vulnerability Assessment
Open and interconnected networks today allow companies to easily share data with customers, suppliers, and business partners. This new landscape offers significant productivity gains for businesses. Without proper management, however, these network efficiencies also pose serious security risks.
Present-day information security threats such as Internet worms, Denial of Service attacks, viruses, and other intrusions are more sophisticated, frequent, and dangerous than ever before. The latest generation of automated hacking tools can attack many different points on the network and inflict worldwide damage in just a few hours. Measuring and managing network risk is a significant challenge for companies of all sizes.
The only effective way to keep security risks down is by finding critical exposures as they appear. Unfortunately, it can often take months or weeks to complete just one cycle of risk assessment, using manual analysis for the large number of vulnerabilities (typically 30) that exist for each node. By using automated Security/Vulnerability Assessment solutions, the process to find the one or two percent of reported vulnerabilities that are critical to your business is reduced to mere hours, thus limiting the window of exposure.
Security professionals that use vulnerability management tools are able to correct weaknesses before they are exploited and no longer rely solely on defensive security measures to protect themselves. The Check Point InterSpect internal security gateway plays a powerful role in vulnerability management by mitigating the spread of any exploited vulnerability.
By combining InterSpect and a Vulnerability Assessment solution, customers are able to proactively monitor and protect their networks. InterSpect has the ability to segment the network into organizational security zones and quarantine infected zones until they have been cleaned. This prevents the rest of the network from being infected. InterSpect also provides the deepest and most comprehensive protection for Microsoft protocols such as MS RPC, CIFS, SQL, DCOM, as well as other LAN protocols such as Sun RPC, DCE RPC, and HTTP.
OPSEC vulnerability-assessment solution partners
- Qualys QualysGuard
- Promisec Spectator
Benefits
- Stops the spread of worms, viruses, trojans, and DoS attacks that other technologies miss
- Assesses network security integrity and the impact of planned or unanticipated network events
- Identifies and prioritizes critical threats to resolve risks and events before they become crises
- Improves security knowledge through an automated infrastructure that builds internal security knowledge for deployment and customization
- Increases protection levels and ensures layered defenses are in place to strengthen the security posture
Check Point InterSpect
Check Point InterSpect is an internal security gateway that blocks the spread of worms and attacks inside the network and provides network zone segmentation. InterSpect is built specifically for internal network security and based on proven Check Point security technologies-INSPECT, Stateful Inspection, Application Intelligence, and SMART (Security Management Architecture).
Benefits
- Intelligent Worm Defender blocks the spread of worms and attacks inside the network.
- Network zone segmentation separates the internal network into organizational security zones.
- Quarantine of suspicious computers isolates attacks and compromised devices.
- LAN protocol protection provides the deepest and most comprehensive support for Microsoft and other LAN protocols.
- Pre-emptive attack protection provides proactive defenses against vulnerabilities and attacks before they are exploited.
- Endpoint security integration enforces endpoint security policies.
- Integrated SMART Management is scalable, easy to use, and easy to manage.
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