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Attacks are evolving and increasing every day, however documents still pose one of the highest risks of infection for organizations. According to the Check Point 2014 Security Report, 84% of companies downloaded an infected document in 2013. Companies need to implement stronger defenses against these attacks. The only way to ensure complete protection is to preemptively remove threats by reconstructing documents with known safe elements. Active content, embedded objects and other exploitable content are simultaneously extracted, and the document is then reconstructed without potential threats to provide 100% safe content. With Check Point Threat Extraction, organizations can protect themselves against both known and unknown threats.

“We are delighted that Check Point continues to hold the number one position in Gartner’s Firewall Equipment market research,” said Marie Hattar, chief marketing officer at Check Point Software Technologies. “For over 20 years, Check Point has been dedicated to leading and defining the network firewall market through continued technology innovation. Our mission is to provide premium security solutions that provide advanced threat prevention and protect our worldwide customers from cybercrime.”

Current approaches to threat prevention have traditionally focused on detecting and blocking malware only after the malware is already active, resulting in an unaddressed threat gap in the earlier phases of attack. With the acquisition of Hyperwise’s advanced technology, Check Point will now address this gap by enabling the detection of threats at the pre-infection stage. The integration of CPU level Threat Prevention will block previously undetected attacks and should increase Check Point’s industry-leading Threat Emulation malware catch rates.

Researchers in Check Point’s Malware and Vulnerability Research Group uncovered a number of critical zero-day vulnerabilities that might have resulted in the compromise of millions of homes and business worldwide, through flaws in several TR-069 server implementations. Once compromised, the malicious exploitation could have led to massive malware infections, illegal mass-surveillance and privacy invasions, and/or service interruptions, including the disabling of an ISP’s Internet service. Attackers could also steal personal and financial data from huge numbers of businesses and consumers.

Today’s data centers and enterprises demand high network performance and have growing needs for more bandwidth. They also require dynamic, multi-layer security to protect against new and evolving threats and attacks. The 13800 offers industry-leading security protections and advanced performance, with up to 3,800 SecurityPower™ units (SPU) and 6.5 Gbps of real-life IPS throughput. The 21800 Appliance delivers up to 4,300 SPU and 7 Gbps of real-life IPS throughput, supplies the low latency required by the most demanding network environments, and provides high reliability and serviceability to minimize maintenance costs.