Increase in Remote Working and Coronavirus Related Threats Creating Perfect Storm of Security Challenges for Organizations, N...
April 07 2020 - 6:00AM
Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: CHKP), a
leading provider of cybersecurity solutions globally, has today
announced findings from a new survey, conducted by Dimensional
Research, examining the Coronavirus pandemic’s impact on enterprise
security. The findings show that the rapid changes to enterprise
working practices, and broader concerns about the pandemic, are
both being exploited by cybercriminals as they step up their
attacks, generating a raft of new challenges for security
professionals.
Key findings from the survey of 411 IT and security
professionals globally are:
- Coronavirus related attacks ramp
up – 71% of security professionals reported an increase in
security threats or attacks since the beginning of the Coronavirus
outbreak. The leading threat cited was phishing attempts (cited by
55% or respondents), followed by malicious websites claiming to
offer information or advice about the pandemic (32%), followed by
increases in malware (28%) and ransomware (19%).
- Challenges of managing remote working increase
– 95% of respondents said they are facing added IT security
challenges due to the spread of the Coronavirus. The three leading
challenges were provision of secure remote access for employees
(cited by 56%), the need for remote access scalable solutions (55%)
and employees working from home were using shadow IT
solutions – untested software, tools and services (47%).
- Security concerns over the coming months – 61%
of respondents were concerned about the security risks of having to
make rapid changes to enable remote working, and 55% felt that
remote access security needed improving. 49% are concerned about
the need to scale-up endpoint security.
“Cybercriminals will always seek to capitalize on the latest
trends to try and boost the success rates of attacks, and the
Coronavirus pandemic has created a perfect storm of a global news
event together with dramatic changes in working practices and the
technologies used by organizations. This has meant a significant
increase in the attack surface of many organizations, which is
compromising their security postures,” said Rafi Kretchmer, Head of
Product Marketing at Check Point.
“To ensure security and business continuity in this rapidly
evolving situation, organizations need to protect themselves with a
holistic, end-to-end security architecture. This means ensuring
accessible and reliable connections between corporate networks and
remote devices 24/7, promoting collaboration and productivity
between teams, networks and offices, and deploying robust
protection against advanced threats and cybercrime techniques at
all points on the enterprise network fabric.”
The survey results reinforce Check Point’s recent findings that
Coronavirus-related domains are 50% more likely to be malicious
than other domains registered since January 2020, and indeed the
average number of new domains registered in the three weeks from
the end of February was almost 10 times more than the average
number found in previous weeks. Similarly, Check Point’s
researchers have uncovered several ‘Coronavirus specials’
advertised by hackers on the dark web, with ‘Covid-19’ or
‘coronavirus’ being used as discount codes for sales of
out-of-the-box malware.
Check Point has a full range of security solutions that ensure
best-in-class connectivity and security for remote working,
allowing workforces to remain as productive as possible. These
include Check Point’s Remote Access VPN Software, Endpoint Threat
Prevention, Mobile Security and Mobile Secure Workspace all aim to
take a practical approach towards securing remote workers. Check
Point’s SandBlast Agent delivers complete endpoint threat
prevention against zero-day attacks delivering a 100% block rate
even for unknown threats with zero false positives.
The survey was conducted by Dimensional Research, with 411
respondents from organizations of 500+ employees globally.
For full details of Check Point’s solutions for securing remote
workforces,
visit: https://www.checkpoint.com/solutions/secure-remote-workforce-during-coronavirus/
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About Check Point Software Technologies
Ltd.Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.
(www.checkpoint.com) is a leading provider of cyber security
solutions to governments and corporate enterprises globally. Check
Point’s solutions protect customers from 5th generation
cyber-attacks with an industry leading catch rate of malware,
ransomware and advanced targeted threats. Check Point offers a
multilevel security architecture, “Infinity Total
Protection with Gen V advanced threat prevention”, this
combined product architecture defends an enterprise’s cloud,
network and mobile devices. Check Point provides the most
comprehensive and intuitive one point of control security
management system. Check Point protects over 100,000 organizations
of all sizes.
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