Forrester names Check Point a Leader in Endpoint Security Suites

By Tal Eisner, Threat Prevention Product Marketing

We are pleased to announce that Forrester Research recognized Check Point’s SandBlast Agent as an endpoint security leader in its newly published report

Today’s modern IT infrastructure enables us to work freely outside our offices and network perimeter. We routinely use our endpoint devices to access the corporate email, corporate SaaS applications, and to download business documents. Without a doubt, it is an essential productivity booster that we constantly rely on; but on a security level – how safe are those endpoints?

Download The Forrester Wave™: Endpoint Security Suites, Q3 2019

Preventing zero-day attacks as core strategy

Powered by leaked state-sponsored hacking tools, today’s cyber-attacks shift between vectors seamlessly while ambitiously and aggressively targeting organizations of all sizes and from very different attack vectors – research states that 70% of successful breaches start on the endpoint. The fifth generation of cyber-attacks requires an equally modern and sophisticated mindset.

With capabilities to reduce the attack surface of the endpoint and provide a series of behavioral protection measures to detect, remediate and prevent incoming zero-day threats, SandBlast Agent Advanced Endpoint Protection incorporates a number of core endpoint security capabilities, including over 11 innovative engines and a unique Anti-ransomware technology. All of which has been developed to integrate with our broader spectrum of network solutions. It is precisely this tight integration between endpoint and network security that Forrester has stated about Check Point. “Check Point’s focus on integrating the endpoint security capabilities with its network security portfolio

has led to one of the tightest integrations between the two layers in this study, helping customers to enforce a Zero Trust approach on their endpoint devices.”

Check Point – Leading the pack, yet again

The Forrester Wave is a trusted resource for technology buyers to learn about ways in which they can protect their business against attacks, and find the providers that best meet their needs. In this case, the Forrester Endpoint Security Suites evaluates the most significant players in the endpoint security market based on 25 criteria.

“We believe being recognized as a Leader in the prestigious Forrester Wave is a validation of Check Point’s commitment to helping organizations remain one step ahead in the fight against increasingly sophisticated cyber threats,” said Itai Greenberg, Vice President, Product Management and Product Marketing, Check Point Software Technologies. “At Check Point, we help organizations go beyond just detection to adopt a prevention approach towards attacks while leveraging our strong portfolio of security technologies that have been developed to meet a variety of customer needs.”

In this Forrester Wave report, Check Point received the highest possible scores in the malware prevention, exploit prevention, secure configuration management, data security, mobile and zero-trust framework alignment criteria.

To learn more about the report methodology and Check Point’s results, download the Forrester Wave report.