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Check point provides multiple protections against Heartbleed

Check Point has announced that its network security products offer multiple protections against the Heartbleed vulnerability, ensuring the security of customers’ clients, servers and the integrity of their network data.

Check Point network security products are not susceptible to Heartbleed exploits as the company utilizes a non-vulnerable version of OpenSSL. The company also provided multiple protections against attacks leveraging the Heartbleed bug that include:

- Check Point’s implementation of HTTPS inspection that automatically prevents Heartbleed traffic. This was first introduced in 2011 with R75.20.

- Check Point released IPS protections to detect and block exploits from Heartbleed, on April 9, 2014.

“The Heartbleed vulnerability is a critical and far-reaching security threat that potentially exposes sensitive personal and business information to remote hackers. Check Point’s products provide multiple elements of protection against Heartbleed. First, our network security products are not vulnerable to this threat as Check Point uses a non-vulnerable version of OpenSSL. Second, our HTTPS inspection inherently prevents Heartbleed traffic. Finally, our timely IPS protection will detect and block attempts to exploit this vulnerability,” said Dorit Dor, vice president of products at Check Point Software Technologies

Heartbleed.com describes the vulnerability as: “The Heartbleed Bug is a serious vulnerability in the popular OpenSSL cryptographic software library … The Heartbleed bug allows anyone on the Internet to read the memory of the systems protected by the vulnerable versions of the OpenSSL software. This compromises the secret keys used to identify the service providers and to encrypt the traffic, the names and passwords of the users and the actual content. This allows attackers to eavesdrop on communications, steal data directly from the services and users and to impersonate services and users.”

“The Heartbleed vulnerability is so worrisome because of the pervasive use of OpenSSL and the fact that consumers often do not employ password best-practices, opening themselves to credential theft. Further, enterprises need to worry not only about the loss of customer account information, but also the compromise of employee credentials, as well as the exploitation of vulnerable network devices utilizing OpenSSL,” said John Grady, research manager of security products and services at IDC.

“The Heartbleed bug is a serious security threat affecting a wide range of IT operations around the world. While it continues to be a major concern for many businesses, Hotel Nikko is safeguarded by Check Point’s leading Intrusion Prevention System (IPS) and its other network security solutions. We are pleased with Check Point’s immediate protection and I’m confident in the security that Check Point provides for our network,” said Manuel Ruiz, IT director at Hotel Nikko San Francisco.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Check Point .