Check Point Delivers Unparalleled Cyber Threat Visibility in the Era of Big Data

SAN CARLOS, CA--(Marketwired - Apr 23, 2014) - Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: CHKP), the worldwide leader in securing the Internet, today announced the availability of Next-Generation SmartEvent, a new and powerful event monitoring solution for real-time processing and storing of threat detection data. Next-Generation SmartEvent offers one single view for all security threats and network components, to more easily manage and analyze big data security, and to make faster and more informed security decisions. 

Security incident and event management continues to grow in complexity. With the influx of device connectivity and content -- mobile devices, endpoints, and gateways comprising organizations' networks -- the ever-increasing volume of data and growing security incidents results in more events to be processed and continuous monitoring requirements. This creates the need for highly customizable analytic tools for monitoring, quickly searching and reporting on an organizations' IT security environment. 

"To stay one step ahead of security threats, organizations need powerful event monitoring solutions that are simple to use, provide robust security analytics to rapidly identify and investigate threats, and enable policy modifications based on these threats," said Dorit Dor, vice president of products at Check Point Software Technologies. "Next-Generation Smart Event provides simple yet powerful and comprehensive event monitoring capabilities including highly-customizable views, blazing-fast search and report results for events and real threats that reside in the data."

Key features of the Next-Generation SmartEvent include:

Effective Threat Analysis and Customized Visibility: Utilizing customizable views to display only information relevant to your organization, security administrators can easily understand security status and trends at a glance. Using one-click detailed views and free-text search, administrators can quickly investigate security incidents and can easily correlate multiple logs in order to identify suspicious activity from the clutter. Organizations can also create rich and personalized reports for necessary stakeholders in security decision making, including security professionals, network engineers and C-level management.