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Mobile devices increasingly represent one of the biggest threats to today’s businesses. According to Check Point’s 2015 Security Report, in an organization with more than 2,000 devices on its network, there is a 50 percent chance that there will be at least 6 infected or targeted mobile devices on their network. Most organizations are unprepared to deal with the threats that these devices present to their networks because of a lack of tools that provide the right visibility and actionable intelligence.

Every day, organizations are faced with internal and external threats to their networks. Although recent high profile breaches occurred inside the data center, security today focuses on perimeter defense. Moving these security controls inside the data center is complex and costly. Check Point and VMware are addressing this need with a solution that is based on integration between Check Point vSEC virtual network security and VMware NSX.

This report is based on collaborative research and in-depth analysis of over 300,000 hours of monitored network traffic, from more than 16,000 Threat Prevention gateways and 1 million smartphones.

This report is based on collaborative research and in-depth analysis of over 300,000 hours of monitored network traffic, from more than 16,000 Threat Prevention gateways and 1 million smartphones.

"Continuous cybersecurity breaches against critical infrastructure industries will result in environmental events exceeding $10 billion, catastrophic loss of life and new regulation, globally, by 2019," states Gartner . In 2014, ICS-CERT responded to 245 reported incidents against industrial control systems in industries like manufacturing, energy, water and transportation. More than half of these incidents involved Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs) or sophisticated actors . Industrial control systems are typically under protected and highly vulnerable to breaches. These systems are compromised by aging and older software and Operating Systems (OS) that are typically not updated or patched frequently. When they are updated, fixing patches of ICS systems creates a long window of exposure, sometimes years, leaving these systems open to attacks.

Data in the IDC Worldwide Security Appliance Tracker indicates:

“The threat landscape is changing every day, with new actors and attack methods emerging faster than ever before,” said Amnon Bar-Lev, President, Check Point Software Technologies. “We’ve arrived at a point in time where the best way to battle cyber threats is to join forces and share knowledge around the attacks and attempts that are occurring, so that we can provide a deeper level of security to our customers.”

“As online shopping continues to overpower in-store shopping, ecommerce sites are increasingly targeted by hackers as they have become a gold mine for credit card information,” said Shahar Tal, Malware and Vulnerability Research Manager at Check Point Software Technologies. “The vulnerability we uncovered represents a significant threat not to just one store, but to all of the retail brands that use the Magento platform for their online stores – which represents about 30% of the ecommerce market.”

“Mobility has become the norm in business operations now more than ever before, because it enables employee productivity with anytime, anywhere access,” said Gil Shwed, CEO and Chairman of Check Point Software Technologies. “However, companies are not necessarily protecting the data on mobile devices properly. Traditional MDM strategies acknowledge the existence of mobile devices, but miss an important factor: protecting those devices, and the data on them, from threats. The addition of Lacoon, the leader in Mobile Threat Prevention, would allow us to provide our customers the most complete mobile security solution on the market.”

Researchers in Check Point’s Malware and Vulnerability Research Group uncovered an attack campaign called Volatile Cedar, which uses a custom-made malware implant codenamed Explosive. Operating since early 2012, this campaign has successfully penetrated a large number of targets across the globe, during which time it has allowed the attackers to monitor victim’s actions and steal data.