Check Point announces IPS-1

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Check Point's IPS-1 intrusion prevention solution delivers accurate and granular attack prevention addressing today's network environment challenges.

Check Point Software Technologies Ltd, the worldwide leader in securing the Internet, announced the immediate availability of IPS-1 (former technology acquired from NFR Security) dedicated intrusion prevention system (IPS) solution delivering accurate, real-time attack mitigation, unmatched management, granular forensic analysis and flexible deployment enabling enterprises to protect against worms, automated malware and other hybrid threats, both known and unknown.

Since the acquisition of NFR Security in January 2007, Check Point has been successfully integrating NFR's products, services and employees into the company, and is leveraging the new technologies to offer customers and partners the opportunity to further enhance Check Point's NGX Unified Security Architecture and strengthen network defenses for enterprises worldwide.

Check Point has integrated IPS-1 into key security event management components of the Check Point product family and is now available

in SmartCenter's SmartView Tracker and Eventia Analyzer, which provide centralized logging and real-time event correlation and prioritization. Check Point customers will immediately be able to utilize the Dynamic Update capability in Eventia Analyzer to add support for IPS-1, enabling them to use a single, familiar security event management tool to view, analyze, prioritize and respond to critical security events. Customers can now track IPS-1 events alongside firewall and VPN events from the same SmartCenter management console, as well as correlate these events with event data from other Check Point and third party products using Eventia Analyzer.

"Check Point continues to expand its vision and leadership in internal security as part of a comprehensive layered approach to network security," said Country Sales Manager, India & SAARC, Check Point Software Technologies, Bhaskar Bakthavatsalus. "Check Point was first to address the internal security market with InterSpect in

2004, and now continues to innovate and meet customers' requirements with its dedicated Intrusion Prevention System, IPS-1".

"Operational efficiency is becoming increasingly important to IT security leaders, and therefore the goal for next generation intrusion prevention must be focused on providing actionable information to security operations staff," said Director Of Product Marketing at Check Point Software Technologies, Dave Burton. "Delays in providing operating system patches, along with a constant threat of targeted attacks by hackers all translate into increased windows of exposure. By employing a pure, proactive defense mechanism like IPS-1 on their networks, critical data remains secure and business continues as usual, minimizing time, costs, and staff requirements associated with network attacks."

IPS-1 provides security that is aware, adaptive, and actionable. It has awareness of the network environment, adapts to changes in the environment, and can tak

e action to protect the network from exploitation. Consequently, IT staff can focus on security functions that are strategic and provide a value-add. Designed to provide immediate and reliable blocking of unwanted network traffic, IPS-1 delivers comprehensive network protection against unwanted network traffic including worms, Trojans, application layer attacks, buffer overflows and other automated malware before they can affect an organization. Additionally, with visibility into network application endpoints, IPS-1 can alert to and protect against the exposures created by rogue servers and critical vulnerabilities. With unmatched forensic analysis, IPS-1 deployments of all sizes are defined, managed and monitored from the centralized, IPS-1 Management Dashboard.

As intrusion detection and prevention are a part of Check Point's core strategy, this is the first in a series of steps to deliver on a commitment to incorporate NFR Security technologies into Check Point's existing

firewall, VPN, UTM and security management solutions based on the company's Unified Security Architecture. This strategy will add even more intelligence to Check Point solutions and help ensure network security systems can quickly adapt to changing threats, cooperate with other systems to enforce security policy, and enable central administrative control. Check Point will continue to incorporate advanced intrusion detection and prevention (IDS/IPS) technologies into its Unified Security Architecture, as it has done with its firewall, VPN, NAC security and security event management solutions.