Check Point Sets a New Standard for IPS in Latest NSS Labs Group Test
January 11 2011 - 8:30AM
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Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: CHKP), the
worldwide leader in securing the Internet, today announced Check
Point has completed testing by NSS Labs, excelling in the
industry's most comprehensive third-party intrusion prevention
(IPS) group testing to date -- achieving 97.3 percent security
effectiveness and earning NSS Labs' Recommended rating. Check Point
also achieved a rated throughput of 2.4 Gbps in real-world
performance testing. With unprecedented results for an integrated
IPS solution, NSS has placed Check Point as a leader in the IPS
Security Value Map, adding the IPS Software Blade to the extensive
portfolio of award-winning Check Point security solutions.
"As cybercriminals have become more aggressive over the past few
years and attacks are increasing in volume and sophistication, this
has been the most rigorous IPS test bed yet," said Rick Moy,
president at NSS Labs. "Throughout the duration of our testing,
Check Point's IPS Software Blade showcased excellent protection and
ease of use. For multi-gigabit environments, the Check Point
Power-1 11065 with the IPS Software Blade is a cost-effective way
to protect against the next generation of Internet threats."
NSS Labs, a leader in independent security product testing and
research, is known to conduct the most comprehensive IPS
third-party testing in the industry, providing real-world research
and analysis to enterprises, government agencies and organizations
of all sizes. According to the report, "Check Point has done an
excellent job integrating management of the hardware platform with
security policy management. Activating the IPS Software Blade was
painless and setting the policy was intuitive and efficient." NSS
Labs tested the Check Point IPS Software Blade against 1,179 live
exploits and across a wide variety of traffic, payload sizes and
protocols. Additional highlights in the full report for Check Point
IPS Software Blade include:
- Comprehensive and proactive protection --
Achieving 97.3 percent tuned block rate against a variety of over
1,100 live exploits and targeted attacks
- Exceptional performance --
Industry-leading throughput performance among integrated IPS
solutions with 2.4 Gbps on the Check Point Power-1 appliance
- 100% Anti-Evasion Coverage -- 100 percent
out-of-the-box resistance to IPS evasion and obfuscation
techniques
- Lowest TCO -- Delivering the industry's
best price for performance to customers at $13 per
Mbps-protected
"As the IT threat landscape evolves, enterprises are faced with
the challenge of protecting their information against a multitude
of threats, while needing to simplify deployment and reduce costs,"
said Oded Gonda, vice president of network security products at
Check Point Software Technologies. "The NSS Labs IPS test results
validate our ability to deliver on the security effectiveness that
customers truly want to accomplish with any Check Point appliance,
server or virtual environment."
Based on the Software Blade Architecture™, the IPS Software
Blade provides complete and integrated intrusion prevention
capabilities at multi-gigabit speeds, with preemptive threat
coverage against malicious and unwanted network traffic. Check
Point IPS products are supported by Check Point's Update Services,
which provide ongoing and real-time updates and configuration
advisories for defenses and security policies. Customers benefit
from Check Point protections that are developed and distributed by
Security Research and Response Centers located around the globe.
For more information and access to the full Check Point report,
visit:
http://www.checkpoint.com/campaigns/intrusion-prevention-system/index.html.
"At Check Point, we are committed to providing the highest level
of protection to customers with products that are simple to deploy
and manage. We will continue to bring more security innovation to
market and raise the bar in quality, performance and ease of
deployment," concluded Gonda.
About NSS Labs, Inc. NSS Labs, Inc. is the
leading independent, information security research and testing
organization. Its expert analyses provide information technology
professionals with the unbiased data they need to select and
maintain complex security products for their organizations.
Pioneering intrusion detection and prevention system testing with
the publication of the first such test criteria in 1999, NSS Labs
evaluates firewall, unified threat management, anti-malware,
encryption, web application firewall, and other technologies on a
regular basis. The firm's real-world test methodology is the only
one to assess security products against live Internet threats. NSS
Labs tests are considered the most aggressive in the industry.
Founded in 1991, the company has offices in Carlsbad, California
and Austin, Texas. For more information, visit www.nsslabs.com.
About Check Point Software Technologies
Ltd. Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.
(www.checkpoint.com), the worldwide leader in securing the
Internet, is the only vendor to deliver Total Security for
networks, data and endpoints, unified under a single management
framework. Check Point provides customers with uncompromised
protection against all types of threats, reduces security
complexity and lowers total cost of ownership. Check Point first
pioneered the industry with FireWall-1 and its patented stateful
inspection technology. Today, Check Point continues to innovate
with the development of the Software Blade architecture. The
dynamic Software Blade architecture delivers secure, flexible and
simple solutions that can be fully customized to meet the exact
security needs of any organization or environment. Check Point
customers include tens of thousands of businesses and organizations
of all sizes including all Fortune 100 companies. Check Point's
award-winning ZoneAlarm solutions protect millions of consumers
from hackers, spyware and identity theft.
©2011 Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. All rights
reserved
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