Check Point introduces new OS and collaborative ThreatCloud

Check Point has launched a brand new secure operating system with intelligence shared to its ThreatCloud.

At its Check Point Experience (CPX) event in Orlando, Florida the corporate announced the launch of the newest release of its software blade architecture, the R75.40, often known as ‘Check Point GAiA'.

According to the corporate, this includes greater than 100 new safety features, including a firewall rule hit count, web proxy configuration and DLP watermarking, in addition to anti-bot and anti-virus software blades.

Also included is SmartLog, a next-generation log analyser that the corporate described as being corresponding to security incident and event management (SIEM) technology and which helps customers transform data into meaningful security information.

Gil Shwed, founder, chairman and CEO of Check Point, said: “With a 64-bit OS and quite a number cutting-edge features, GAiA enables customers to align multiple layers of security protection on a unified platform and create an integrated security blueprint.

“R75.40 continues to construct on our vision for 3D security. From our software blade architecture and robust line of appliances introduced last year, to our new ThreatCloud and cutting-edge unified OS, we're bringing customers the strong foundation and advanced protections had to keep their edge in security.”

ThreatCloud, launched as portion of R75.40, was described because the "first collaborative network to fight cyber crime, enabling organisations to share attack information and threat trends from multiple global sources to higher and more effectively stop attacks".

Gathering data from users' gateways, threat sensors, Check Point research and industry malware feeds, ThreatCloud distributes threat intelligence to security gateways all over.

Talking to SC Magazine, Terry Greer-King, UK managing director of Check Point, said this isn't a managed service but a community, where common threats might be seen in an effort to help fight global cyber crime.

“This is a higher level of our 3D strategy, a community that allows you to share intelligence to alert other users â€" either automatically or manually reckoning on the user. Here's a better level of security,” he said.

“If you've computers to your business which are portion of a botnet, then it is going to be seen locally and alerted. That is about trends and isn't the same as anti-virus as that will depend on the seller. For us it's about selling security in preference to selling appliances, about involving people and putting processes in and establishing a community to fight cyber crime.”

John Grady, senior analyst of security products at IDC Research, said: “We see threat intelligence increasingly developing as a subject of interest for a lot of businesses, primarily due to the rise of advanced threats today and, by comparison, few resources where businesses can get easy accessibility to the information, research and protections they want.

“Whether an organisation has already been the objective of a complicated persistent threat or is solely seeking to apply new pre-emptive protections, Check Point's ThreatCloud-enabled software blades are a promising solution.”