The Competitive Gazette

Greetings:

Here is the latest competitive news to motivate, educate, and help you win. Below, contains all important competitive intelligence uncovered in the past month to expand your knowledge and arm you with the latest competitive tools and information.

In this edition, I am excited to share the new heat map hive for a competitive high-level comparison view. Also, updated the Harmony Endpoint battle card along with interesting outbound competitive public page.In addition, there are numerous very interesting updates regarding the competitive landscape.

Hezi Chen,
Head of Competitive Intelligence
Check Point Software Technologies

New/Updated Competitive Assets

• New: Competitive Heat Map Hive: high level comparison of Quantum/Harmony/CloudGuard vs the competition – Download
  
• Updated: Harmony Endpoint Battle Card: vs 13 endpoint vendors such as Crowdstrike, SentinelOne, McAfee, Symantec and more – Download
  • Read the Competitive email with all the information – Here
• Top NGFW vendors compared: a public/external competitive web page comparing the best Next-Gen Firewall; Check Point vs Cisco, Fortinet, Palo Alto Networks – Read Here (can be forwarded to customers)

Up Next: Microsoft defender deep-dive presentation

Major Cyber Events

• A joint report published by US, UK, and Australian cybersecurity agencies warns of the top routinely exploited vulnerabilities in 2020 – Read Here
• Top prevalent malware with a thousand campaigns migrates to macOS – Read Here
• IndigoZebra APT continues to attack Central Asia with evolving tools – Read Here

Palo Alto Networks

• Competing with Palo Alto on container security: check out an interesting email thread with competitive information – Read Here
• Palo Alto introduces new PA-400 SMB appliances bundles: Professional (PRO) and Enterprise (ENT) – Read Read
• HPE Channel Jas Sood Is jumping to Palo Alto Networks as senior vice president of enterprise sales – Read Here
• Deloitte and Palo Alto Networks announce strategic alliance. it will offer end-to-end Zero Trust enablement and multi-cloud cybersecurity solutions – Read Here
• Palo Alto Networks and Google Cloud expand partnership – Read Here
• NVIDIA and Palo Alto Networks accelerate virtual GW with DPU acceleration – Read Here
• Palo Alto Networks expands and enhances EMEA customer support – Read Here
• Palo Alto Networks with new cloud location in Germany – Read Here

Fortinet

• Fortinet launches new appliance: FG-3500F – Read Here
  • FG-3500F Datasheet – Download
• Fortinet launches new services: FortiTrust Access and FortiTrust Identify (MFA) – Read Here
• Fortinet’s security appliances hit by remote code execution vulnerability (FortiManager & FortiAnalyzer) – Read Here
• Fortinet named Google Cloud technology partner of the year award for security – Read Here
• Fortinet reports 2nd quarter 2021 financial results – Read Here

Cisco

• Cisco Web Security Appliance (WSA) bugs allow remote cyberattacks – Read Here
• Cisco patches high-risk flaw in ASA, FTD software – Read Here

Microsoft

• Microsoft to acquire security intelligence vendor RiskIQ for $500M – Read Here
• Microsoft acquires CloudKnox Security to offer unified privileged access and cloud entitlement management (CIEM) – Read Here

Google

• Google introduce “Cloud Armor”: a machine learning-powered capability to protect applications and services from Layer 7 DDoS attacks – Read Here

Barracuda

• Barracuda acquires Skout Cybersecurity to enter the XDR market – Read Here

Cybereason

• Cybereason announces the acquisition of security analytics company “empow” to enhance their XDR – Read Here

Orca Security

• Orca is in the list of the Top 25 IT Innovators of 2021 – Read Here

NSS Labs 2019 & 2020 Tests

Access to full reports, presentations and talking points

• Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) Test (Latest – July 2019)
• Breach Prevention System (BPS) Test (August 2019)
• NSS Labs AEP (Endpoint) – 2020

Gartner Magic Quadrant for Network Firewalls (NFW) – 2020

• To read the full report Click Here
• Field Talking Points – Download Here

Gartner Market Guide for Network Sandbox

• How to choose your next sandbox solution – Whitepaper based on insights from the Gartner report

MITRE Enginuity Test 2021

• Field Talking Points – Email
• Download Competitive Talking Points PPT – Here
• Access the MITRE comparison tool (for unique techniques): Here (Internal Link)
• Additional Content in the MITRE Enginuity Competitive Wiki Page

Miercom industry assessment 2019 for mobile threat defense – Download Here

• Competitive Appliance Sizing Tool (C.A.S.T) – Compare Check Point appliances to the competitive equivalents
• Infinity Assessment Calculator – a conversation starter tool to show the value of infinity TCO and security posture vs best-of-breed
• Competitive BOM Creator – Build your own competitive bill of materials
• Vulnerability Detective – compare IPS amount of vulnerabilities and response time vs. the competition
• RFP Template – R80.40 based Next-Gen Firewall template
• Maestro Comparison Tab – compare Maestro based hyper-scale environment vs the competition
• Competitive Wheel – Check out the “birds-eye view” competitive landscape including Quantum, CloudGuard, Harmony, Infinity Vision
• Competitive Heat Map Hive – Comparison in Check Point end-to-end protections vs. other competitors (H1 2020)
• Why Check Point – We Win Sheet – check out 4 main reasons why Check Point wins
• Check Point vs. Competition Security Effectiveness – the security effectiveness quantitative index compares Check Point to the competition
• Competitive Cloud (CCC) – Experience competitive products
• Competitive Threat Prevention Feature Matrix – Advanced threat prevention features mapping in detail vs. other competitors
• Competitive Cheat Sheet/Battle Card Page – Check out cheat sheets for PAN, Fortinet, Cisco, Microsoft, Sophos, Cisco Meraki, WatchGuard, FireEye, Zscaler and more. Also available for partners @CheckMates
• RFP / NGTX test plan Template – Now with R80.10 features, TE with CPU-Level features, TEX, new capabilities, POC checklist, testing plan and customer requirements
• Unknown 300 How-To – Threat Prevention (including threat emulation) POC test plan
• Competitive Price Lists – Updated competitors’ price lists
• How to expose shortcuts in a competitive POC – know how to expose the security shortcuts used in PoC’s by other vendors
• Security Checkup – the tool generates a comprehensive security analysis report that summarizes security events found, their potential risk and recommendations to remediate these risks
• CheckMe – Check Point instant security assessment tool that help you demonstrate to customer’s their network’s vulnerability against advanced threats such as Ransomware, Zero Day attacks and more. It can check the Cloud, Endpoint and Mobile.
• Check Point SmartMove -Migration tool to Check Point R80.10 now supported from Cisco, Fortinet, Juniper and Palo Alto Networks
• GDPRate – GDPR readiness including 14 security standards and requirements
• Check Point leadership excellence – Download Here (Sep 2019)
• ThreatGuard Lookalike Domains Report – Identify domains that are endangering customers to identify phishing attacks
• Threat Intelligence Report – automatically generate an up-to-date presentation highlighting the recent Cyber threats and trends in any country, region or industry
• Significant Customer Win (Anatomy of a Win – August 2021) – Read Here