SecureData, a member of the JSE-listed ERP.com Group, and a distributor of Check Point Software Technologies, today announced that the latter has signed a definitive agreement to acquire NFR Security, a leader in real-time threat prevention.
With the acquisition of NFR, Check Point will enhance its technology leadership and raise the security bar in defending enterprise networks against today's most dynamic threats.
Check Point's SmartDefense and NFR's Hybrid Detection Engine (HDE) will offer customers precise, real-time attack prevention by combining pre-emptive type-based protection (SmartDefense) with the highly granular and accurate attack detection provided by the HDE.
"This acquisition is an important step in Check Point's leadership strategy to continuously raise the level of security available to enterprises for protecting their mission-critical networks. It is part of our focus on two primary layers: network security as our core platform and our recently announced expansion into data security," commented Gil Shwed, founder and chief executive officer of Check Point.
"NFR's proven security solutions provide the most powerful intrusion detection and prevention technology we have found in the market. We will integrate NFR's technologies into our unified security architecture to provide the industry's broadest and best managed security solutions."
Total consideration of the transaction is approximately $20 million including acquisition-related expenses. NFR, established in 1996, is based in Rockville, Maryland and has 22 employees.
Check Point offers the industry's most comprehensive security solutions for businesses and consumers worldwide. Through Check Point's NGX platform, it is the only company to deliver a unified security architecture boasting integrated manageability and security across the full network infrastructure.
NFR's flagship Sentivist Real-Time Threat Protection solution goes beyond standard intrusion detection techniques and combines best-in-class technologies to protect against today's multi-faceted threats, while giving network administrators the real-time information and tools needed to manage and act upon threats. Sentivist protects against all manner of attacks, including intrusion attacks, insidious zero-day attacks, anomaly exploits, malicious code, backdoors, command tampering, polymorphic buffer overflows and more.
Check Point will incorporate NFR's award-winning, intrusion detection and prevention (IDS/IPS) technologies into the company's market-leading network security portfolio of firewall, VPN and security management solutions. This solution will provide the highest level of intelligence, adaptability and manageability. Check Point will also offer standalone IDS/IPS solutions by unifying NFR's product line with the company's InterSpect internal security gateway solutions.
Shwed added: "Check Point remains purely focused on the security needs of our customers. NFR's technology is an important extension to our unified security architecture and will enable us to more proactively protect against current and future threats with the industry's only integrated and fully managed security solution portfolio."
For further information, please contact Doros Hadjizenonos at telephone (011) 790 2500; fax (011) 790 2599; e-mail dorosh@securedata.co.za.
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Check Point Software Technologies Ltd is the leader in securing the Internet. It is a market leader in the worldwide enterprise firewall, consumer Internet security and VPN markets. Through its NGX platform, the company delivers a unified security architecture for a broad range of perimeter, internal, Web, and endpoint security solutions that protect business communications and resources for corporate networks and applications, remote employees, branch offices and partner extranets. The company's ZoneAlarm Internet Security Suite and additional consumer security solutions are among the highest rated in the industry today, proactively protecting millions of people from hackers, spyware, viruses and identity theft. Extending the power of the Check Point solution is its Open Platform for Security (OPSEC), the industry's framework and alliance for integration and interoperability with 'best-of-breed' solutions from hundreds of leading companies. Check Point solutions are sold, integrated and serviced by a network of thousands 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, an ERP.com company, is Africa's premier IT security solution provider. SecureData's solutions incorporate anti-virus and content security, endpoint security, network security, intrusion prevention and authentication and identity management. SecureData's comprehensive "Managed Security Services" include design, audit, implementation, vulnerability assessment, outsourcing and hosting. SecureData distributes, sells and supports category leading IT security products to the public, corporate and SME sectors throughout Africa as well as products and services to the SOHO and consumer markets through partnerships with ISPs. As well as being the sole distributor in Sub-Saharan Africa for Trend Micro, SecureData is the Sub-Saharan African distributor for US-based TippingPoint Technologies as well as for AirDefense, Application Security, Check Point Software Technologies, eEye, Precise Biometrics, Rocket Software, RSA Security, SPI Dynamics, St Bernard and Websense. For more information, visit SecureData at www.securedata.co.za.
ERP.com
ERP.com is a JSE-listed company focused on the implementation, integration and management of enterprise applications in an e-business environment. For more information, visit ERP.com at www.erpcom.co.za.
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