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Check Point Next Generation Threat Prevention Receives Highest Scores in Recent Miercom Testing
November 2014 by Marc Jacob
Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd. announced that Check Point Next Generation Threat Prevention with ThreatCloud Emulation Service outperformed competing solutions in a recent assessment performed by Miercom, an independent product test center.
As known and unknown threats proliferate, an organizations’ security solution, including its advanced threat prevention products, must safeguard the enterprise network with both accuracy and speed. The “Advanced Threat Prevention with Sandbox Analysis” was conducted to determine the security efficacy of network-based threat prevention solutions that utilize sandboxing or threat emulation technologies. Miercom researchers tested products from five leading security vendors including Check Point, Cisco Sourcefire, FireEye, Fortinet, and a fifth vendor, referred to as Vendor A in this report (due to EULA restrictions).
Check Point’s award-winning 4800 Next Generation Threat Prevention appliance with Threat Emulation Cloud Service provided the best overall protection against the competition. Performance results included:
· 99.9% overall security efficacy, 3 to 14.5 percentage points higher than its nearest and furthest competitor.
· 100% protection against known threats.
· 100% protection against Zero-Day threats, outperforming competitors by more than 27%.
· Average time malware spent in the sandbox: fastest among all products tested at approx. 3 minutes per sample; the other products analyzed malware samples in an average of 11.5 minutes.
