Category: security

From via Securing Mobile Devices May Be an Impossible Task:
Attacks against smartphones such as BlackBerrys, iPhones and Android phones have become quite prevalent in recent years and many of them have focused on getting malicious apps on users phones. Thats a …

By now I’m sure you’ve seen, heard, or read Check Point’s official announcements made at NASDAQ this morning. This is by no means a regurgitation of the official press releases, but it is my own personal take on what was announced. …

Mobile devices are, like any powerful tool, a double edged sword. They enable unprecedented ability to access and create information from anywhere! They are also a huge problem for information security.

Unlike a traditional PC, where there are a number of …

From ZoneAlarm’s Newest Security Solution: SocialGuard:
SocialGuard, ZoneAlarm’s newest security solution, promises a groundbreaking new method of monitoring and preventing safety breaches on Facebook the most popular social networking site by a mile, with over 500 million users without “friending” …

From Reality Check – Features – Malware – Computer Business Review:

 
“The industry needs to change a little bit,” [Check Point Software Technologies CEO Gil Shwed] says. “Our software blade architecture is the right direction but it’s not enough. I think …

On the two Check Point user community sites CPUG and CPshared, I made a couple of interesting observations today:

CPshared already had more active threads today than CPUG. This includes all the public boards, which I verified by loading …

I’ve been a participating in the Check Point user community in various places for a long time now. Heck, I ran a Check Point community of my own for a while. It’s not often the community gets a new …

A PR firm representing Cisco asked me if I wanted to review the Cisco Valet, which is a line of “surprisingly simply home wireless” devices that, I have to say, does what it says on the tin. It is …

IPv6 is the next generation of IP–the protocol by which most of our computers, phones, and other related devices talk to each other and to the Internet. Today, everything generally talks using IPv4, which has a 32-bit address space, or …

Anyone who’s following the Check Point Twitter, Facebook page, or has been peeking around in User Center has probably seen the release of R75–Check Point’s next major release. DLP, Mobile Access, Identity Awareness, and Application Control are all …