Check Point Acquisition of Nokia Security is Complete

Well it is official: Check Point has completed the acquisition of Nokia Security.

Yahoo’s Confirmation

Check Point’s Confirmation

Nokia’s Confirmation

Word is that Nokia employees already have an internal welcome portal, and are rapidly being plugged into the mothership. I think that pretty much everyone at this point agrees this is a great [...]

Where is the Conficker protection in Smart Defense?

I provided a few screen shots showing where the SmartDefense protection is for Conficker. Here is the “short but sweet” way to find it in R65:

Open SmartDashboard and go to the SmartDefense Tab. Select:

Application Intelligence –> MS-RPC –> MS-RPC over CIFS –> Block Microsoft Server Service Remote Code Execution (MS08-067)

This will bring [...]