Check Point Compliance

On March 11, 2013 the Check Point Software Technologies company provided a new program blade of Check Point Compliance which is integrated solution for control of the observance of regulatory requirements working in real time and based on the extensive regulatory base and the best practices of information security support. The program blade of Compliance provides compliance of an internal security policy to the international requirements and confirms presence of necessary level of protection. It reduces costs of time for control procedures, increases security and cuts down expenses of the companies. The new solution is completely integrated in architecture of program blades of Check Point, providing the complete information about compliance to standards in gateways of security Check Point and program blades of network security.

Constantly increasing number of regulatory requirements and growth of hi-tech threats delivered IT security specialists before tough need of observance of external standards and internal instructions in the field of security. The program blade of Check Point Compliance reduces corporate risks, creating the advanced approach to security on the basis of thousands of difficult regulatory requirements. The new solution constantly controls settings of policy of program blades Check Point, providing practical recommendations which are based more than on 250 progressive methods. Problems of compliance to regulatory requirements and preparation for control checks become simpler thanks to automatic formation of reports on compliance.

"The program blade of Check Point Compliance works for administrators of the systems of protection as the second pair of eyes, monitoring all changes and notifying on potential problems. The main advantage of the solution is that it recommends changes in policy and points to the mismatch facts to requirements, raising the security level of our organization — Tim Bulu, the head of Information Security Service of Faculty of health care of the University of the Southern Florida says. — I can sleep peacefully, knowing that thanks to the dynamic analysis and frequent updates provided with the solution Check Point, information protection of my organization answers all necessary regulations".

"The organizations are under the total pressure as they need to consider huge amount of existing rules, and any specific managements for this purpose are absent — Ram (Mati Ram), the head of solutions for risk management and compliance to regulatory requirements of Check Point Software Technologies company says MATI. — The program blade of Compliance simplifies the organization of the security policies meeting to a set of various international requirements and enhances value of security as parts of business process".

The control interface of Check Point Smart Dashboard gives an opportunity of full control of compliance to the set regulations, simplifying the companies program management of ensuring compliance, drawing up documentation and reports. As the new solution is completely integrated in architecture of program blades of Check Point, each change of policy, including changes of all program blades of network security (Firewall, IPS, Anti-Bot, DLP and Application Control), checked for compliance to regulations. The solution automatically notifies users on the detected discrepancies, indicating results of the decisions made by them in the field of security and setting reasons of observance of requirements in number of priorities of security management. There is an opportunity to expand functionality of the solution, having added a wide choice of abilities to manage risks and compliances to regulatory requirements (GRC) from structure of easy2comply.