Fred Felman, vice president of marketing at Check Point, said the new intrusion-prevention services will empower solution providers to guarantee customers up-to-the-minute protection against viruses and other network threats.
Calling upon the SmartDefense service and Zone Labs Security Advisories, Check Point will upgrade the service automatically, so its list of vulnerabilities is always up-to-date, he said. The new capabilities are part of the Redwood City, Calif.-based vendor’s Total Access Protection initiative to extend cooperation between its Integrity end-point security solution and other offerings in the Check Point product portfolio, such as the integrated firewall, VPN-1 Pro; the internal security gateway, InterSpect; and Connectra, the company’s Web security gateway.
The strategy is intended to help enterprises defend their network-connected PCs with unified remote access, end-point security, policy enforcement and hosted intrusion prevention. Eric Eder, president of Intelligent Connections, a security solution provider in Detroit, said his customers have needed more automation for handling incidents. “The ability to have centralized management control and have it be consistent across a variety of areas is really something [customers] like.”
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