The Five Pillars of a Cybersecurity Platform
A cybersecurity platform is designed to address the leading challenges that security teams face. To do so, an effective cybersecurity platform is built on the following five pillars.
#1. Automated Security
Routine, repeated tasks make up a significant percentage of a security team’s responsibilities. Performing these tasks as quickly and efficiently as possible is essential to maintaining the health of an organization’s security architecture and conserving resources for other tasks.
A cybersecurity platform should offer the ability to automate security based on APIs, playbooks, and scripts based on security best practices. Security automation can be used to automatically generate configuration files and security profiles or create web portals to provide more user-friendly access to API-based functionality.
#2. Consolidated Security
Many security teams struggle with managing a security architecture built of an array of standalone security solutions. Independent solutions are more difficult to configure, monitor, and manage, and context switching between dashboards reduces analyst efficiency and slows responses to cyber threats.
A cybersecurity platform consolidates security monitoring and management into a single, central solution. Security integration enhances threat prevention, detection, and response by providing analysts with access to more data sources and the ability to centrally trigger remediation actions across multiple systems. A consolidated security architecture also simplifies configuration monitoring and management, helping security teams quickly detect and respond to dangerous misconfigurations.
#3. Threat Prevention
Many security architectures are focused on threat detection and response, identifying a threat and marshaling resources to address the problem. However, focusing on threat detection means that an attacker has access to an organization’s systems and may be able to cause damage before the security team responds.
A cybersecurity platform should provide prevention-focused security, attempting to identify and block attacks before they pose a threat to an organization’s systems. A core component of a prevention-focused security approach is the use of artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning to process large volumes of security data, identify threats, and trigger responses, such as updating firewall rules to block attacks.
#4. Dynamic Network Infrastructure Security
Modern networks are increasingly dynamic and adaptive. The use of software-defined networking (SDN) and cloud computing means that the topology of the corporate network can change in the blink of an eye. Cybersecurity platforms must be highly adaptive to effectively secure dynamic network infrastructures. These platforms must be able to operate in any environment and provide tools that allow rapid or automatic updates to security architectures and configurations to secure evolving infrastructure.
#5. Efficient Operations
Security teams commonly face rapidly-expanding responsibilities. As companies pursue digital transformation efforts, the scope of the network to be protected continues to grow. As a result, security teams face more systems, more data, and more unique configurations and threats.
A cybersecurity platform must streamline and optimize security operations to ensure that security is not a blocker to corporate growth and transformation. For example, cybersecurity platforms should automate where possible, simplify complex operations, and support concurrent sessions to allow administrators to work safely in parallel.
Check Point Cyber Security Platform
Securing enterprises against cyber threats is only going to grow more challenging. Security teams must cope with increasingly complex IT infrastructures, sophisticated cyber threats, and limited resources.
A cybersecurity platform provides security teams with the ability to scale to meet their expanding workloads. By streamlining security management and preventing threats before they enter a network, a cybersecurity platform allows security teams to focus their time, efforts, and resources where they are most needed while automating whatever they can.
The Check Point Infinity Platform stands out for its AI-driven capabilities and cloud-based delivery, offering top-tier security solutions spanning the data center, network, cloud, branch office, and remote users, all managed through a unified interface. Leveraging AI security and automation, the Infinity platform defends enterprises against increasingly complex cyber threats and helps bridge the talent gap resulting from shortages in IT security personnel.
Renowned as the most extensive, integrated, and cooperative security platform available, the Check Point Infinity Platform emphasizes three core elements – comprehensiveness, consolidation, and collaboration – each playing a pivotal role in delivering superior threat prevention and security measures.
Infinity Platform AI-Powered, Cloud-Delivered: The Check Point Infinity platform is specifically designed to meet the modern challenges of an evolving threat landscape. The Infinity Platform is the industry leading comprehensive, consolidated, and collaborative cyber security platform that delivers AI-Powered and Cloud-Delivered threat prevention across the data center, network, cloud, IoT, endpoint, and mobile.
Centralized and Unified Management: The Infinity Portal unifies management across the security capabilities from the Check Point Infinity Platform through a single pane of glass. Organizations can manage the full set of Check Point security technologies – Quantum, CloudGuard, Harmony and Infinity Core Services – within the same cloud-based environment. Check Point was named a leader in the Forrester Wave™ Zero Trust Platform Providers Q3’23. In that report Forrester stated, “Check Point Sets the Bar for Centralized Management with Infinity”
Industry Leading Threat Prevention: For the 2nd consecutive year, Check Point was ranked # 1 in Threat Prevention by Miercom preventing 99.8% of unknown attacks and 100% of phishing attacks. The Check Point solution provides best of breed capabilities with prevention rates that far exceed the average accuracy rates of other security providers
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