Category: Check Point Blog

Leveraging AI in Financial Services with Resilience and Security

The financial services sector is at a critical juncture as it faces increasing pressure to adopt cutting-edge technologies like AI to stay competitive and relevant. Financial services and financial technology companies are rapidly embracing AI advancements, particularly large language models…

Getting to Know Julio Lemus

Julio, can you tell us a bit about yourself? My name is Julio Lemus and I’m from Guatemala, but am currently living in Panamá. I’m part of the Check Point team for LATAM, covering the territory of Panamá, Venezuela, and…

Keeping Your Head Above Water: Cyber Security and Water

Water is the essence of life, but in today’s digital world, it’s also an increasingly attractive target for cyber criminals. Water treatment plants and distribution systems rely on digital controls, which, if compromised, can lead to disastrous consequences, including contamination,…

Check Point Accelerates Site-to-Site VPN for Azure Virtual WAN

As organizations seek to accelerate their cloud operations, ensuring secure and fast network performance to Azure Virtual WAN has become critically important. Check Point CloudGuard Network Security has now made available enhanced site-to-site VPN that simplifies Azure Virtual WAN network…

Is Firebase Phishing a Threat to Your Organization?

Check Point researchers have uncovered a sophisticated credential harvesting attack that leverages Firebase, a popular web application hosting service. This attack involves the creation of highly convincing and professionally designed phishing web pages that impersonate well-known services. The attackers also…

How Manufacturers Can Turn Security Into a Competitive Advantage

Digitization has significantly changed manufacturing over the past 25 years. The benefits include reducing inventory costs and machine downtime, and boosting throughput and forecasting accuracy. But as digitization has grown in prevalence, so have the security challenges facing manufacturers. This…

The Role of WAF in Fintech & Financial Services

The financial sector serves as the backbone of the global economy, making it one of the most targeted industries for cyber attacks. As online banking, mobile transactions, and fintech innovations expand, cyber threats continue to evolve. Cyber criminals continuously exploit…

Why a Value-Driven Approach Makes Women Strong Leaders

In business, the path to value creation requires more than strategic planning and execution—it demands an ability to connect the dots, anticipate needs, and understand the human elements that drive progress. Women often demonstrate these capabilities through their natural inclination…

Five Reasons Retail Chains Can’t Ignore SASE

Retailers have always relied on technology to improve operations and enhance many aspects of the shopping experience – and that’s truer than ever today. From AI-powered predictive analytics to automated customer service, retailers are increasingly using digital innovations to stay…

Five Reasons to Choose Secure SD-WAN from Check Point

In today’s fast-paced digital landscape, businesses are increasingly in need of reliable, secure, and high-performance connectivity. Check Point’s secure SD-WAN solutions offer a comprehensive approach by combining top-notch security with optimized internet and network connectivity, ensuring safe and uninterrupted operations.…

Migrating from Hub and Spoke Network to Azure Virtual WAN

Azure Virtual WAN is a robust network service that combines networking, security, and routing functionalities into a single operational interface. This innovative approach simplifies the complexity of managing multiple connectivity types such as VNet, VPN, remote user, and ExpressRoute connectivity.…

How hunting for vulnerable drivers unraveled a widespread attack

Attackers are increasingly targeting vulnerabilities in drivers, which operate in kernel mode with the highest permissions, to bypass security measures and facilitate further infections. To prevent the abuse of vulnerable drivers, Microsoft’s 2015 policy required new drivers to be signed…

Cyber Criminals Using URL Tricks to Deceive Users

Overview: In a newly observed scam, Check Point researchers found 200,000 phishing emails that abused URL information to obfuscate phishing links. The scam was first observed on January 21st, and remains ongoing, although the daily threat volume is decreasing. Geographically,…

Check Point’s SASE Tops Scores for Threat Prevention

Known malware is dangerous, but the real risk lies in never-before-seen zero day threats that slip past defenses. For companies adopting the SASE security model, effective threat prevention is non-negotiable. That’s why Check Point delivers industry-leading protection for SASE and…

Protecting Hospitals from IoT Threats with Check Point

In today’s healthcare landscape, the integration of Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) devices has revolutionized patient care. However, this technological advancement also introduces significant cyber security risks. One such threat has been highlighted by the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security…

Service Levels for MSSPs: Elevating Security-Specific Services

Introduction: The Critical Role of Service Levels in Managed Security Today’s managed service providers (MSPs) play a crucial role in safeguarding businesses against cyber threats. As the complexity and frequency of these threats increase exponentially, it’s becoming critical for MSPs…

New Facebook Copyright Infringement Phishing Campaign

Facebook is the most popular social network worldwide, outperforming every other competitor for reach and active users, according to Statista. Further, according to Sprout Social, Facebook is the third-most visited website following Google and YouTube. Thus, when a phishing campaign…

AI-Powered Security Management for the Hyperconnected World

Today’s security approach is siloed. Each deployed security tool is designed to provide a specific type of protection across different areas like the network, endpoints, email, and cloud environments. This hybrid methodology, often requiring dozens of systems, leads to several…

WAF Security Test Results – How Does Your Vendor Rate?

With cyber threats on the rise, organizations are increasingly concerned about their security posture. One area of prime concern is web applications and APIs that power key business processes. To protect mission-critical applications, efficient web application firewalls (WAFs) are required…

The Journey to Autonomous Cyber Security

The evolution of cyber security is no longer just about reacting to threats; it is about staying perpetually ahead in a world defined by complexity and speed. Autonomous cyber security represents a bold, transformative leap into the future—where intelligent, AI-driven…

Cyber Security Tips for Educators and Parents

The numbers are staggering: the average number of weekly cyber attacks per organization rose to 1,673 in 2024, a 44% increase compared to the previous year, according to Check Point’s The State of Cyber Security 2025 report. Among all sectors,…

How Grand Canyon Education Enhanced Their Cloud Security with CloudGuard

Educational institutions face unique challenges in maintaining robust cloud security. Grand Canyon Education (GCE) is a shared services partner dedicated to serving colleges and universities. GCE supports partner institutions’ students through operational functions that achieve organizational growth and student success.…

Why Security Providers Choose Check Point

For 20 years, Network Technology Partners (NTP) has been protecting their customers from cyber attackers with cutting-edge, real-time cyber security and information technology. NTP gets to know its customers, ranging from SMBs to Fortune 500 enterprises, specializing in advanced security…

5 Reasons You Won’t Want to Miss CPX 2025

As CPX 2025 approaches, the excitement is undeniable—and so is the opportunity. If you’re a security leader, cyber enthusiast, or someone who wants to stay current on the very latest in cyber threat prevention, CPX is the event you should…

5 Key Cyber Security Trends for 2025

As the digital world continues to evolve, threats to organizations are becoming more sophisticated, pervasive, and disruptive. Our annual 2025 State of Cyber Security Report is intended to provide cyber security leaders with critical insights into the evolving threat landscape…

3 CloudGuard Differentiators for Container Security

Kubernetes has become an enterprise’s go-to platform for orchestrating and managing container workloads for cloud-native software. As more organizations adopt it and cloud-native software scales and becomes more complex, the need for container security is high. Kubernetes and container workloads…

Meet FunkSec: A New, Surprising Ransomware Group, Powered by AI

Executive Summary: The FunkSec ransomware group emerged in late 2024 and published over 85 victims in December, surpassing every other ransomware group that month FunkSec operators appear to use AI-assisted malware development, which can enable even inexperienced actors to quickly…

Cracking the Code: How Banshee Stealer Targets macOS Users

Executive Summary: Since September, Check Point Research (CPR) has been monitoring a new version of the Banshee macOS Stealer, a malware that steals browser credentials, cryptocurrency wallets, and other sensitive data. Undetected for over two months, Banshee’s latest version introduced…

Brand Impersonation Scam Hijacks Travel Agency Accounts

Recently, within the span of a week, a new and extensive phishing campaign compromised more than 7,300 businesses and 40,000 individuals around the world. The most heavily impacted regions are the United States (75%) and the European Union (10%). The…

Ensuring HIPAA Compliance with Secure Remote Access

When it comes to remote access, healthcare organizations must contend with the same challenges as their counterparts in many other industries: remote workers and third-party contractors need fast, reliable connections to enterprise resources. The security team also needs to defend…

Building Cyber Resilience with Trofi Security and Check Point

As the digital threat landscape grows increasingly complex, organizations are under mounting pressure to secure their environments against a variety of risks, from ransomware and phishing to sophisticated zero-day exploits. Businesses need security solutions that not only prevent breaches but…

DeepDLL– A New Approach to Detect Malicious DLLs

Cyber attackers are increasingly using DLL (Dynamic Link Library) files to spread malware. Modern attack chains have complex multi-stage flows and DLL is a common step in all major malware families. Methods like DLL hijacking, sideloading, and reflective DLL injection…

New Opportunities for Communication Service Providers

The internet is the ‘new’ corporate network, and Communication Service Providers (CSPs) are well-positioned to enable their clients’ ongoing digital transformations. The emergence of 5G and the standardization of work from anywhere are only reinforcing this shift. CSPs have the…

Getting to Know Katya Pikkarainen

Katya, can you tell us a bit about yourself? I have a Bachelor of Science in Business Management from the University of Minnesota, and I’m currently an Account Manager living in Minnesota, where I was born and raised. What led…