Comprehensive, Consolidated, and Collaborative: How Check Point Software Infinity Platform is Revolutionizing Cyber Security

As organizations increasingly rely on the internet, the risk of cyberattacks grows. Hackers are exploiting the expanded attack surface, targeting everything from employees' home devices and 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-facing assets that lacked adequate cyber security 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 cyber security platform. Infinity protects businesses across all attack vectors, from endpoints, emails, and mobile devices to cloud environments, networks, and IoT. As hackers become more sophisticated in exploiting weak links within an organization, businesses require an all-encompassing platform that leaves no gaps in their security posture.

Check Point’s Infinity platform is built on the 3Cs principle—Comprehensive, Consolidated, and Collaborative—ensuring businesses receive holistic protection within a single, unified system. This principle is critical for enhancing a business's cyber security posture and preventing potential exposures.

A Game Changer for Business
By adopting the end-to-end Infinity platform, businesses gain unrivaled protection while also driving efficiencies, customizing their cyber security 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 its unique needs.

Check Point's senior cyber security adviser, Sadiq Iqbal, emphasized that a single management system is vital for improving a business's cyber security posture. He noted that many organizations previously relied on up to 50 different interfaces to understand their threat landscape, resulting in significant overhead and vulnerability due to fragmented systems.

“The Infinity platform reduces the need for multiple licenses for example, with Microsoft solutions, you would need to purchase a new licence for each one. The Infinity platform eliminates the complexities of managing disparate systems and provides all necessary cyber security capabilities in one platform, simplifying administration and enhancing security,” Iqbal explained.

Whilst it is common for some businesses to have a preference of retaining a handful of their current extended detection and response capabilities or to pursue a two-vendor strategy, Check Point advises organisations to streamline this strategy. Even if some customers opt for a mixture of different products with multiple vendors running different products like an external firewall or another an internal system, the Infinity platform helps businesses avoid spending prohibitive amounts on data aggregation tools and bridges required 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 scales efficiencies and streamlines operations but also ensures businesses remain compliant in a rapidly evolving regulatory environment. As agencies like the Department of Home Affairs, APRA, and ASIC increasingly mandate cyber security frameworks, non-compliance can lead to severe penalties or even criminal liabilities.

The Infinity platform supports businesses in meeting 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 grounded in a ‘prevention-first’ philosophy. Unlike other platforms that may only respond to threats once suspicious activity is detected, Check Point holds files outside the security gateway and screens them before allowing entry. This proactive approach includes scrutinizing email attachments for phishing scams, analyzing them in a secure sandbox, and only delivering safe content to users with minimal delay.

This preventive approach is essential. As Iqbal pointed out, even seemingly harmless phishing emails can have catastrophic consequences, as evidenced by the 2018 attack on the Korean Winter Olympics, which was delivered via a simple Word document.

Check Point’s 30 years of cyber security experience reinforce the Infinity platform. The platform leverages data stored in Check Point’s ThreatCloudAI which is continuously analysed to detect and respond to malicious actors. This data is also continuously updated by a global team of close to 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 sophisticated and new attack vector, such as an unknown zero-day attack on a network is detected, the company then will create a defense which reverberates across the Check Point ecosystem - whether it is an email, cloud or endpoint attack. This means that the analysis findings and extensive knowledge base behind ThreatCloudAI gets stronger and better equipped to quickly adapt and defend against each of the 3 billion attacks defeated, including unknown zero-day attacks every year.

Conclusion:
As cyber threats become increasingly sophisticated, businesses must elevate their cyber security posture. The Check Point Infinity platform offers comprehensive, end-to-end protection, ensuring no gaps in security. With solutions tailored to the unique needs of businesses, Check Point Infinity improves efficiency and delivers unparalleled cyber security protection.

For more information on how Check Point Infinity can secure your business, reach out to a member of the Check Point team today.