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Which Check Point software blade provides protection from zero-day and undiscovered threats?

The correct answer is B. Threat Emulation. Threat Emulation is the Check Point blade that detects zero-day and undiscovered threats by executing suspicious files in a sandboxed virtual environment.

Introduction to Check Point Technology

Question

Which Check Point software blade provides protection from zero-day and undiscovered threats?

Options

  • AFirewall
  • BThreat Emulation
  • CApplication Control
  • DThreat Extraction

How the community answered

(32 responses)
  • A
    6% (2)
  • B
    91% (29)
  • C
    3% (1)

Why each option

Threat Emulation is the Check Point blade that detects zero-day and undiscovered threats by executing suspicious files in a sandboxed virtual environment.

AFirewall

The Firewall blade controls network access using stateful inspection and rule-based policies but does not perform behavioral analysis for unknown or zero-day threats.

BThreat EmulationCorrect

Threat Emulation operates as a sandbox solution that runs suspicious files and documents in a virtual environment to observe their behavior, enabling detection of zero-day exploits and undiscovered malware that signature-based tools cannot identify. It analyzes files before they reach the end user and blocks threats that have no known signatures.

CApplication Control

Application Control identifies and manages application usage on the network but does not analyze files for undiscovered malware or zero-day exploits.

DThreat Extraction

Threat Extraction sanitizes files by removing potentially malicious active content before delivery, but it does not detect zero-day threats through behavioral sandbox analysis.

Concept tested: Check Point Threat Emulation blade for zero-day protection

Source: https://www.checkpoint.com/cyber-hub/threat-prevention/what-is-threat-emulation/

Topics

#Threat Emulation#zero-day protection#sandboxing#software blade

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