The rise of remote work, combined with the increased use of collaboration tools and cloud services, has made businesses more interconnected than ever. While this connectivity has driven growth, it has also expanded the attack surface, leaving businesses more vulnerable to cyber threats.
As organizations become increasingly reliant on the Internet, the risk of cyber attacks increases. Hackers are exploiting the expanded attack surface, targeting everything from home devices and employee emails to enterprise endpoints, networks, and cloud environments.
Recent research from the Enterprise Strategy Group highlights a critical issue: 69% of organizations have experienced at least one attack on Internet-connected assets that lacked adequate cybersecurity protection.
There is a solution.
To combat this evolving threat landscape, Check Point Software Technologies has introduced its Infinity platform, the industry’s most secure end-to-end cybersecurity platform. Infinity protects businesses across all attack vectors, from endpoints, emails, and mobile devices to cloud, network, and IoT environments. As hackers become more sophisticated at exploiting weak links within an organization, businesses need a comprehensive platform that leaves no gaps in their security posture.
Check Point’s Infinity platform is based on the 3C principle (comprehensive, consolidated and collaborative), ensuring that companies receive comprehensive protection within a single, unified system. This principle is critical to improving a company’s cybersecurity posture and preventing potential exposures.
A turning point for business
By adopting the end-to-end Infinity platform, businesses gain unparalleled protection while driving efficiency, customizing their cybersecurity solutions, and receiving recommendations on how to comply with regulatory frameworks. Whether an organization is large or small, the Infinity platform is designed to meet your unique needs.
Check Point Senior Cybersecurity Advisor Sadiq Iqbal emphasized that a single management system is vital to improving a company’s cybersecurity posture. He noted that many organizations previously relied on up to 50 different interfaces to understand their threat landscape, resulting in significant overload and vulnerability due to fragmented systems.
“The Infinity platform reduces the need for multiple licenses; For example, with Microsoft solutions, it would be necessary to purchase a new license for each one. The Infinity platform eliminates the complexities of managing disparate systems and provides all the necessary cybersecurity capabilities on a single platform, simplifying management and improving security,” Iqbal explained.
While it is common for some companies to prefer to retain some of their current extended detection and response capabilities or pursue a two-vendor strategy, Check Point advises organizations to optimize this strategy. Even if some customers opt for a mix of different products with multiple vendors running different products, such as an external firewall or other internal system, the Infinity platform helps companies avoid spending prohibitive amounts on the data aggregation tools and bridges needed to connect disparate platforms. With the Infinity platform, these capabilities are seamlessly integrated, offering a scalable and customizable solution for any business.
Regulatory compliance and threat prevention
The Infinity platform not only increases efficiency and streamlines operations, but also ensures that companies remain compliant in a rapidly evolving regulatory environment. As agencies such as the Department of Home Affairs, APRA and ASIC increasingly mandate cybersecurity frameworks, non-compliance can result in serious penalties or even criminal liability.
The Infinity platform helps companies meet these regulatory standards, including NIST and APRA CPS, by offering recommendations on how to achieve and maintain compliance, and even providing recommendations on what is missing.
How Check Point Infinity works
Check Point’s Infinity platform is based on a “prevention first” philosophy. Unlike other platforms that can only respond to threats once suspicious activity is detected, Check Point keeps files out of the security portal and scans them before allowing entry. This proactive approach includes scanning email attachments for phishing scams, scanning them in a secure environment, and delivering only secure content to users with minimal delay.
This preventative approach is essential. As Iqbal noted, even seemingly harmless phishing emails can have catastrophic consequences, as demonstrated by the 2018 attack on the Korean Winter Olympics, which was delivered via a simple Word document.
Check Point’s 30 years of cybersecurity experience strengthen the Infinity platform. The platform leverages data stored in Check Point’s ThreatCloudAI, which is continually analyzed to detect and respond to malicious actors. This data is also continually updated by a global team of nearly 300 researchers from Check Point’s research team, who monitor the dark web and other sources to stay ahead of attackers.
Years of learning mean that if a new and sophisticated attack vector is detected, such as an unknown zero-day attack on a network, the company will create a defense that will impact the entire Check Point ecosystem, whether email, cloud or attack the endpoint. This means that the analysis results and the extensive knowledge base behind ThreatCloudAI are strengthened and better equipped to quickly adapt and defend against each of the 3 billion attacks defeated, including unknown zero-day attacks each year.
Conclusion:
As cyber threats become increasingly sophisticated, companies must improve their cybersecurity posture. The Check Point Infinity platform offers comprehensive end-to-end protection, ensuring there are no security gaps. With solutions tailored to the unique needs of businesses, Check Point Infinity improves efficiency and offers unparalleled cybersecurity protection.
To learn more about how Check Point Infinity can protect your business, Contact a member of the Check Point team. today.
