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_ SUMMARY AND SECURITY STRATEGY
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ThreatCloud™ Real-time Security
Intelligence Feeds
ThreatCloud™ is a collaborative network and cloud-driven
knowledgebase that delivers real-time dynamic security
intelligence to security gateways. That intelligence is used to
identify emerging outbreaks and threat trends.ThreatCloud™
powers the Anti-Bot Software Blade which allows gateways
to investigate dynamic IPs, URLs and DNS addresses where
Command & Control centers are known to exist. Since
processing is done in the cloud, millions of signatures and
malware protection can be scanned in real time.
ThreatCloud™‘s knowledgebase is dynamically updated
using feeds from a network of global threat sensors, attack
information fromworldwide gateways, Check Point research
labs and the industry’s best malware feeds. Correlated
security threat information is then shared among all gateways
collectively.
Check Point Security Appliances
In today’s enterprise networks, security gateways are more
than a firewall as they face an ever-increasing number of
sophisticated threats. Today’s security gateways must use
multiple technologies to control network access, detect
sophisticated attacks and provide additional security
capabilities such as data loss prevention, protection
from web-based threats and securing mobile devices
such as the iPhones and tablets in enterprise networks.
These increased threats and security capabilities demand
greater performance and versatility from security
appliances.
Empowered by Check Point GAiA, a next-generation
security operating system, Check Point appliances
combine high performance multi-core capabilities
with fast networking technologies to provide the
highest level of data, network and employee security.
Optimized for the extensible Check Point Software
Blades Architecture™, each appliance is capable of
running any combination of Software Blades including :
Firewall, IPsec VPN, IPS, Application Control, Mobile
Access, DLP, URL Filtering, Anti-Bot, Antivirus, Anti-
spam, Identity Awareness and Advanced Networking
& Clustering. This provides the necessary flexibility
and the precise level of security for any business at
every network location. By consolidating multiple
security technologies into a single security gateway,
the appliances are designed to deliver advanced and
integrated security solutions to meet an organization’s
full business security requirements. Introduced in
August 2011, SecurityPower™ is a metric that measures
the capacity of an appliance to perform multiple
advanced functions in a specified traffic volume. This
revolutionary benchmarking tool enables companies to
select the appropriate security appliances for their specific
deployment scenarios. The SecurityPower™ ratings are
determined based on real-world customer traffic, multiple
security functions and a typical security policy.
Check Point 61000 Appliance
