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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.
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)- A6% (2)
- B91% (29)
- C3% (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.
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.
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.
Application Control identifies and manages application usage on the network but does not analyze files for undiscovered malware or zero-day exploits.
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/
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