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Check Point Introduces New CPU-Level Threat Prevention
An anonymous reader writes: After buying Israeli startup company Hyperwise earlier this year, Check Point Software Technologies (Nasdaq: CHKP) now unveils its newest solution for defeating malware. Their new offering called SandBlast includes CPU-Level Threat Emulation that was developed in Hyperwise which is able to defeat exploits faster and more accurately than any other solution by leveraging CPU deubgging instruction set in Intel Haswell, unlike known anti-exploitation solutions like kBouncer or ROPecker which use older instruction sets and are therefore bypassable. SandBlast also features Threat Extraction — the ability to extract susceptible parts from incoming documents.
I do a lot of Check Point engineering/consulting services and this is one of the more exciting things they've done in awhile. Even though they didn't actually develop it they've done a good job integrating into their firewall suite. It is not a panacea; nothing in security is, but it is good stuff.
Is the anonymous reader just quoting a press release? It doesn't seem like there's much analysis or original thought in this "story."
Stop learning! Only you can prevent esoterrorism.
Interesting. It should up the game for threat prevention, however it is a practical certainty that the black hats will learn from this technique in order to develop new and nastier exploits. If they have not already.
When all you have is a hammer, every problem starts to look like a thumb.
Electron-level threat protection. It analyzes randomly-moving electrons to decide how best to separate people from their IT budget dollars.
I expect my ads to be off to the side and not the main course on slashdot. What was the price of this post?
+2 for subtlety......... cocks