Check Point enhances its UTM-1 appliances with zero-hour protection
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. has announced it has added messaging security and zero-hour protection to its UTM-1 appliances and VPN-1 UTM software that now brings protection against e-mail intrusion, spam and viruses to end users.
“We wanted to make sure we were not just releasing check box type functionality but took time to understand what the real needs were for messaging security and provide a solution,” said Paul Kaspian, project manager with Check Point.
Check Point’s messaging security platform in UTM-1 includes e-mail intrusion prevention technologies combined with multi-layered defense against spam and viruses. Anti-spam technologies include advanced pattern detection to detect image-based and foreign language spam, and IP-based reputation scoring to catch newly emerging attacks like PDF spam and MP3 spam. Kaspian said that the new platform blocks 97 per cent of all spam and there less than one in a million false positives. Additionally, Check Point messaging security also offers multi-layered anti-virus with both signature-based protection against known threats as well as zero-day protection to block attacks as they occur and before a signature is available.
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