Preparing for the Next Global Crisis - A Cyber Pandemic - Check Point Software
Protecting Against a Rapidly Spreading Cyber Pandemic
With the Covid-19 outbreak, cyber criminals have seized this global crisis to launch treacherous cyber exploits. The new normal landscape has generated a surge of sophisticated Gen V cyber attacks, including targeted ransomware. The Cyber Pandemic is here. Now is the time to pull out all the stops and take action to protect your organization.
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Cyber Pandemic Update
Protect yourself against the Apache Log4j 0-Day vulnerability
One of the most serious vulnerabilities on the internet in recent years.
When we discussed the Cyber pandemic, this is exactly what we meant – quickly spreading devastating attacks.
Learn how to stay protected with Check Point real-time threat prevention protections
Video Guide: How To Secure Your Remote Workforce
From recent attack trends to best practices for mobile, endpoint and cloud email security, our 8-part video guide is everything security admins need to secure the remote workforce in the new normal, and beyond.
Best Practices to Stay Safe in a Cyber Pandemic
REAL-TIME PREVENTION
As we‘ve learned, vaccination is far better than treatment. The same applies to your cyber security. Real time prevention places your organization in a better position to defend against the next cyber pandemic.
SECURE YOUR EVERYTHING
Every part in the chain matters. Your new normal requires that you revisit and check the security level and relevance of your network’s infrastructures, processes, compliance of connected mobile, endpoint devices, and IoT.
The increased use of the cloud means an increased level of security, especially in technologies that secure workloads, containers, and serverless applications on multi- and hybrid-cloud environments.
CONSOLIDATION AND VISIBILITY
Dramatic changes in your company’s infrastructure presents a unique opportunity to assess your security investments. Are you really getting what you need and are your point solution protecting the right things? Are there areas you’ve overlooked?
The highest level of visibility, reached through consolidation, will guarantee you the security effectiveness needed to prevent sophisticated cyber attacks. Unified management and risk visibility fill out your security architecture. This can be achieved by reducing your point product solutions and vendors, and your overall costs.
Cyber Security in the Age of Coronavirus
The pandemic has changed the cyber threat landscape. Have you secured your everything in the new normal?
Security Concerns Over Contact Tracing Apps
Researchers flag concern around implementation of contact tracing apps, citing possibilities of device traceability, personal data compromise, app traffic interception, and fake health reports.
Fixing the Zoom ‘Vanity Clause’
Check Point and Zoom collaborate to fix vanity URL issue
Check Point and Zoom identify a security issue in Zoom’s customizable URL feature.
If exploited, a hacker would have been able to manipulate ID meeting links by posing as an employee of a potential victim organization via Zoom, giving the hacker a vector for stealing credentials or sensitive information.
Biological Pandemic vs. Cyber Pandemic:
Similarities and Parallelization, Lessons Learned
Moving Beyond Coronavirus onto Safer Ground
We’ve all experienced that 2020 is like no other year in our recent history. It’s a crisis of such magnitude that has altered the way of life for societies around the world. It’s effects have been felt on our institutions and organizations.
We’ve also learned that the ability to be agile and act swiftly has been a necessity. The pandemic will pass over time, but it’s effects will be felt forever. As we move to safer ground, we’ll not take for granted our ability to stay connected and be protected. The "new normal" will require us to make changes and adapt to a new reality that could include a major cyber pandemic.