Posted by New Delhi: Check Point Software has launched Check Point Harmony – its unified security solution for remote working. The company claimed Check Point Harmony is the industry’s first unified solution to offer secure connectivity to any resource anywhere. This web security solution offers total endpoint protection to users on any device.
Harmony secures both corporate and BYOD devices and internet connections from known and zero-day attacks while giving Zero-Trust access to business applications in a single, easy to manage solution.
Today, securing the new ‘work from anywhere’ environment is a top priority for enterprises. According to Gartner study, 81% enterprises have adopted mass remote working and 74% enterprises plan to do so permanently.
However, enterprises have serious concerns about securing remote users as 52% stated their top concern was securing staff endpoints. While 47% enterprises said stopping social engineering attacks, yet just 29% deploy endpoint protections on employees’ home PCs.
Check Point Harmony addresses these challenges, unifying endpoint, browser, email and remote access security components to protect all user devices and the enterprise networks. Harmony integrates key security capabilities in a single solution to deliver:
Complete web security: As a core component of Harmony, the new Harmony Browse uniquely provides secure, fast and private web browsing by inspecting all SSL traffic directly on the endpoint without adding latency or re-routing traffic through a secure web service.
Harmony Browse blocks zero-day malware downloads, access to phishing websites, and prevents the reuse of corporate passwords. It also keeps users’ browsing history private, ensuring compliance with data privacy regulations.
Harmony Browse is easily deployed as a nano-agent in users’ browsers and can be combined with any secure web gateway or endpoint security solution to enhance overall protection.
Secure remote access from any device, anywhere: Harmony Connect securely connects any user or branch to any resource, supporting clientless Zero Trust Network Access from any browser.
Protects users’ email and productivity apps: Harmony Email & Office secures users’ email clients and offers full protection for Microsoft Office 365, Exchange, Google G Suite and more.
Total endpoint and device security: Harmony Endpoint protects users’ PCs from ransomware, phishing and malware. It minimizes breach impact with autonomous detection and response capability. Harmony Mobile secures employees’ mobile devices against malicious apps and network or OS attacks.
“In the past year, organisations have made significant IT infrastructure changes to enable mass remote working and will continue to do so,” said Michael Suby, Research VP – IDC.
“Our forecasts show that by 2024, mobile workers will account for nearly 60% of the total U.S. workforce. These accelerated changes open up security gaps and dramatically expand organisations’ attack surface, especially on employees’ own devices and PCs and remote connections to corporate applications,” added Suby.
“The move to mass remote working created security gaps in organisations’ security infrastructures that cannot easily be addressed with multiple different point products from several different security vendors,” said Rafi Kretchmer, VP Product Marketing at Check Point Software.
“Harmony closes these gaps with unified, multi-layered security and prevention technologies, blocking against all exploit techniques across all attack vectors. This protects the enterprise´s network end to end, ensuring uncompromised security for the new ‘work from anywhere’ enterprise environment, with easy deployment and single-console management,” added Kretchmer.
Check Point Harmony is easy to deploy with a simple per-user pricing model. It is managed via a cloud service, enabling user-centric security policies to be applied across organisations’ environments.