Check Point has introduced its next-generation unified cyber security platform, Check Point R81.
According to the cyber security firm, the new platform is the industry’s first to deliver autonomous threat prevention designed for the entire distributed enterprise, enabling IT staff to manage the most complex and dynamic network environments easily and efficiently.
Check Point says enterprises have accelerated their digital transformation programmes and changed IT priorities in response to the Covid-19 pandemic, which has increased their cyber risk exposure and risen the complexity of managing employees remotely. 71% of security professionals reported an increase in cyber threats since the beginning of the pandemic.
Addressing the need for better security and less complexity, demands consolidation and automation of threat prevention technologies, processes, and policies to make protection smarter and more efficient across organisations’ complex, distributed networks, it says.
Chris Rodriguez, IDC’s Network Security Research Manager, says managing IT security today is hard because of more devices, more threats, and more applications spread across the datacenter, network…
