BEDFORD, Mass., June 7 /PRNewswire/ -- RSA, The Security Division
of EMC (NYSE: EMC) announced a technology agreement with Check
Point Software Technologies Ltd. (Nasdaq: CHKP), the worldwide
leader in securing the Internet, to provide consumers around the
globe with enhanced, real-time protection against Trojan, phishing
and other online attacks.
RSA is supplying real-time online threat intelligence feeds from
its RSA FraudAction™ Anti-Trojan and Anti-Phishing
services to Check Point's solutions. This new capacity is
integrated into the existing anti-phishing functionality available
in all ZoneAlarm premium consumer products including ZoneAlarm
Internet Security Suite and ZoneAlarm Extreme Security to provide
consumers world-wide with enhanced and proactive protection against
online attacks.
"Leveraging external threat information from RSA enables Check
Point to strengthen its detection and analysis capabilities
and offer superior protection to our customers," said Bari Abdul, vice president of consumer sales,
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. "The implementation of
anti-Trojan filtering and identity theft protection helps address
some of the key customer needs and pain points. We are pleased to
add RSA to our list of technology partners as we work together to
provide customers with strong levels of protection."
RSA FraudAction solution is a 24x7 service designed to detect,
track, block, and shut down phishing, pharming and Trojan attacks
perpetrated by online fraudsters. It has shut down more than
300,000 illicit web sites across 140 countries to date. RSA's
online fraud analysts operate from the RSA® Anti-Fraud
Command Center to shut down hosted online attacks, deploy
countermeasures, and conduct extensive forensic work to reduce the
average lifetime of an online attack. RSA FraudAction service is a
component of the RSA Identity Protection and Verification Suite,
one of the most complete and innovative Software-as-a-Service
portfolios of strong authentication and anti-fraud
technologies.
"Our relationship with Check Point is another example that
inventive collaboration between industry leaders can expand our
collective abilities to protect consumers against ever-evolving
online threats. This brings more value to our users by integrating
real-time detection and blocking capabilities on a wider scale,"
said Christopher Young, Senior Vice
President, Technology, Products and Markets at RSA. "Together, we
can grow an even stronger security ecosystem in order to become a
more effective and organized entity against the vast underground
network of fraudsters."
About RSA
RSA, The Security Division of EMC, is the premier provider of
security solutions for business acceleration, helping the world's
leading organizations succeed by solving their most complex and
sensitive security challenges. RSA's information-centric approach
to security guards the integrity and confidentiality of information
throughout its lifecycle – no matter where it moves, who accesses
it or how it is used.
RSA offers industry-leading solutions in identity assurance
& access control, data loss prevention, encryption & key
management, compliance & security information management and
fraud protection. These solutions bring trust to millions of user
identities, the transactions that they perform, and the data that
is generated. For more information, please visit www.RSA.com and
www.EMC.com.
EMC, FraudAction and RSA are either registered trademarks or
trademarks of EMC Corporation. All other trade names and trademarks
are the property of their respective holders.
SOURCE EMC Corporation