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Check Point turns info into action

Kirsten Doyle
By Kirsten Doyle, ITWeb contributor.
London, 14 Apr 2010

Check Point has unveiled SmartEvent, a software blade and unified management solution, for real-time event visibility across multiple security systems.

The company says SmartEvent filters the plethora of daily threat logs and events, highlights critical events as they happen, and allows security administrators to stop attacks straight from the management interface.

According to Oded Gonda, VP of network security at Check Point, security administrators cannot act faster than they can access relevant data. He says SmartEvent allows administrators to view security incidents from a high-level business view to forensic details in a mere three clicks of a mouse.

The product correlates events across firewalls, intrusion prevention systems, loss prevention and endpoints, and presents them in a consolidated view that emphasises any critical security incidents.

The product interface also allows administrators to add protections on-the-fly to remediate attacks quickly, such as implementing policy changes or blocking traffic from certain sources.

Gonda says as the product is part of Check Point's blade architecture, it can be easily deployed into customers' existing security management, which he says will dramatically lower deployment time and costs.

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