Check Point Blog

How Artificial Intelligence Enhances Cybersecurity (Part 1)

By Yaelle Harel and Adeline Chan, Threat Prevention Marketing Managers, published November 22, 2019 Cyber attacks continue to evolve at an ever-increasing pace. Threats have become more sophisticated and dangerous compared to just a few…

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Key takeaways from Gartner’s 2019 Market Guide for Mobile Threat Defense

Yael Macias, Threat Prevention Product Marketing Manager Two things are clear to us from Gartner’s recent publication of its 2019 Market Guide for Mobile Threat Defense (MTD): mobile threats to the enterprise are on the…

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6 DevSecOps Sessions You Won’t Want to Miss at AWS Re:Invent

By Jonathan Maresky, Product Marketing Manager, Cloudguard IaaS, published November 20, 2019 If you’re interested in expanding your knowledge about security at scale—and partying a little, or a lot—you’d better start packing your bags, ‘cause…

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Protecting a nation’s health through robust cyber security

Data can save lives. This is not the opinion of a company in the data business, but the view of NHS England. Data from patient health and adult social care records helps improve individual care,…

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Blueprint For Securing Industrial Control Systems

In order to secure Critical Infrastructure environments, it is vital to keep a holistic view and look at every part of the network, both the IT and OT parts and investigate the systems and processes…

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October 2019’s Most Wanted Malware: the Decline of Cryptominers Continues, as Emotet Botnet Expands Rapidly

In October, the research team has reported that for the first time in almost two years, cryptomining malware no longer tops the ‘most wanted’ list. Cryptominers’ usage has been declining steadily since peaking in early…

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First BlueKeep Attacks Begin: Check Point Customers Remain Protected

By Adeline Chan, Threat Prevention Product Marketing Manager, published November 11, 2019 After months of warning, the first BlueKeep attacks finally happened. BlueKeep, a critical vulnerability found in older versions of Microsoft Windows, was discovered in…

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How Malware Detected at India’s Nuclear Power Plant Could Have Been Prevented

By Adeline Chan, Threat Prevention Product Marketing Manager The Nuclear Power Corporation of India Limited (NPCIL) recently confirmed that there was a cyberattack on the Kudankulam Nuclear Power Plant (KKNPP) in Tamil Nadu, India, in September. The…

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Check Point Protects Branch Office Microsoft Azure Internet Connections and SaaS Applications from Cyber Attacks

By Russ Schafer, Head of Product Marketing, Security Platforms, published November 5, 2019 Enterprises are moving their applications, workloads and services out of the data center into the cloud. As enterprises become more distributed, organizations…

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Higher Scalability, Enhanced Productivity

By Michael A. Greenberg, Product Marketing Manager, Security Platforms SECURITY AS DYNAMIC AND SCALABLE AS THE CLOUD There are many reasons why an organization might adopt Hyperscale computing. Hyperscale may offer the best or only…

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