SecureData Africa, part of JSE-listed SecureData Holdings and the sub-Saharan distributor for Check Point Software Technologies, the worldwide leader in securing the Internet, today announced that Check Point has completed testing by NSS Labs and has excelled in the industry's most comprehensive third-party intrusion prevention (IPS) group testing to date, by achieving 97.3% security effectiveness and earning NSS Labs' 'Recommended' rating.
Check Point also achieved a rated throughput of 2.4Gbps in real-world performance testing. With unprecedented results for an integrated IPS solution, NSS has placed Check Point as a leader in the IPS Security Value Map, adding the IPS Software Blade to the extensive portfolio of award-winning Check Point security solutions.
"As cybercriminals have become more aggressive over the past few years and attacks are increasing in volume and sophistication, this has been the most rigorous IPS test bed yet," commented Phil Thompson, Product manager at SecureData for Check Point's products. "Throughout the duration of their testing, Check Point's IPS Software Blade showed excellent protection and ease of use. For multi-gigabit environments, the Check Point Power-1 11065 with the IPS Software Blade is a cost-effective way to protect against the next generation of Internet threats."
NSS Labs, a leader in independent security product testing and research, is known to conduct the most comprehensive IPS third-party testing in the industry, providing real-world research and analysis to enterprises, government agencies and organisations of all sizes. According to the report: "Check Point has done an excellent job integrating management of the hardware platform with security policy management. Activating the IPS Software Blade was painless, and setting the policy was intuitive and efficient." NSS Labs tested the Check Point IPS Software Blade against 1 179 live exploits and across a wide variety of traffic, payload sizes and protocols.
Additional highlights in the full report for Check Point IPS Software Blade include:
* Comprehensive and proactive protection - achieving 97.3% tuned block rate against a variety of over 1 100 live exploits and targeted attacks.
* Exceptional performance - industry-leading throughput performance among integrated IPS solutions with 2.4Gbps on the Check Point Power-1 appliance.
* One-hundred percent Anti-Evasion Coverage - 100% out-of-the-box resistance to IPS evasion and obfuscation techniques.
* Lowest TCO - delivering the industry's best price for performance to customers.
"As the IT threat landscape evolves, enterprises are faced with the challenge of protecting their information against a multitude of threats, while needing to simplify deployment and reduce costs," continued Thompson. "The NSS Labs IPS test results validate their ability to deliver on the security effectiveness that customers truly want to accomplish with any Check Point appliance, server or virtual environment."
Based on the Software Blade Architecture, the IPS Software Blade provides complete and integrated intrusion prevention capabilities at multi-gigabit speeds, with pre-emptive threat coverage against malicious and unwanted network traffic. Check Point IPS products are supported by Check Point's Update Services, which provide ongoing and real-time updates and configuration advisories for defences and security policies. Customers benefit from Check Point protections that are developed and distributed by Security Research and Response Centres located around the globe.
"Check Point is committed to providing the highest level of protection to customers with products that are simple to deploy and manage,” concluded Thompson. “They will continue to bring more security innovation to market and raise the bar in quality, performance and ease of deployment.”
For further information, please contact Phil Thompson at tel. +27 11 790 2500; fax +27 11 790 2599; e-mail phillipt@securedata.co.za.
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NSS Labs
NSS Labs is the leading independent, information security research and testing organisation. Its expert analyses provide information technology professionals with the unbiased data they need to select and maintain complex security products for their organisations. Pioneering intrusion detection and prevention system testing with the publication of the first such test criteria in 1999, NSS Labs evaluates firewall, unified threat management, anti-malware, encryption, web application firewall, and other technologies on a regular basis. The firm's real-world test methodology is the only one to assess security products against live Internet threats. NSS Labs tests are considered the most aggressive in the industry.
Check Point Software Technologies
Check Point Software Technologies is the leader in securing the Internet. Check Point offers total security solutions featuring a unified gateway, single endpoint agent and single management architecture, customised to fit customers' dynamic business needs. This combination is unique and is a result of its leadership and innovation in the enterprise firewall, personal firewall/endpoint, data security and VPN markets.
Check Point's pure focus is on information security. Through its NGX platform, Check Point delivers a unified security architecture to protect business communications and resources, including corporate networks and applications, remote employees, branch offices and partner extranets. The company also offers market-leading endpoint and data security solutions with Check Point Endpoint Security products, protecting and encrypting sensitive corporate information stored on PCs and other mobile computing devices. Check Point's award-winning ZoneAlarm solutions protect millions of consumer PCs from hackers, spyware and identity theft. Check Point solutions are sold, integrated and serviced by a network of Check Point partners around the world and its customers include 100% of Fortune 100 companies and tens of thousands of businesses and organisations of all sizes.
SecureData
SecureData is a specialist, value-added distributor of perimeter, application, network, endpoint, storage and identity information security solutions and risk management solutions for the African sub-continent and Indian Ocean islands. A cross-section of the available solutions from SecureData illustrates wide coverage of the following information security and risk management domains: business continuity, security appliances and devices, hardware authentication, identity and access management, security and vulnerability management, secure content management, threat management and security services.
SecureData's information security and risk management solutions include best-of-breed solutions, devices and appliances for the perimeter, data centres, applications, network, endpoints, messaging and Web. In addition, as a value-add to vendor, channel and customer, SecureData also provides a full complement of support, pre-sales and professional services around the solutions positioned in each discrete security vertical.
For more information, visit SecureData at http://www.securedata.co.za.
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