As cyber attacks continue to increase and evolve, Israeli-based security solutions vendor Check Point Software Technologies has unveiled a ThreatCloud World Cyber Threat Map, which visualises how and where attacks are taking place worldwide, in real-time.
The move comes after the company's chief executive Gil Shwed recently revealed plans to sharpen focus on threat-prevention and mobile security. In February this year, Check Point acquired Israeli start-up Hyperwise, saying it will help it compete in the fast-growing cyber security market.
Vendors such as Kaspersky Lab, Trend Micro and FireEye among others have since unveiled such threat maps.
The Check Point map is powered by the vendor's ThreatCloud intelligence, a collaborative network to fight cyber crime that delivers threat data and attack trends from a global network of threat sensors.
According to Check Point, the ThreatCloud database holds over 250 million addresses analysed for bot discovery, over 11 million malware signatures and over 5.5 million infected Web sites, and identifies millions of malware types daily.
Check Point's ThreatCloud collects data from numerous global sensors and from the company's research team and distributes this information to customers' gateways, giving real-time threat information and attack trends to enforce protection against bots, advanced persistent threats and other sophisticated forms of malware.
It feeds into ThreatCloud IntelliStore, a threat intelligence tool that enables organisations to select from a wide range of threat intelligence feeds that are relevant to their business, use this intelligence to pinpoint and focus on the advanced threats, and proactively stop them.
The ThreatCloud World Cyber Threat Map also shows key daily threat statistics, including the top 10 countries from which attacks originate; the top 10 countries targeted by attacks; the types of attack (bot communication, access to malicious resources, malicious file transfers, spam); attack totals; as well as country-specific data showing infection averages and most common attack types by week and month.
The US has emerged as a leading source and recipient of cyberattacks, according to data revealed in the threat map.
"It can be hard for organisations to grasp the sheer speed and global scale at which cyber attacks happen," says Doros Hadjizenonos, sales manager for Check Point SA. "We wanted to develop a tool to help businesses understand how rapidly the threat landscape is moving so that they can take steps to strengthen their security implementations and better defend themselves against attacks."
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