“This enhances what our partners are delivering to our commercial customers because 80 million (free antivirus) installs worldwide are picking up things all over the place long before often they get to Canada,” Comessotti explained. For example, would be sent to the same cloud, making the threat known for enterprise users as well, Comessotti said.
Threats found on popular Web sites that users often surf at home. It features a two-way firewall to protect against inbound and outbound threat, using ZoneAlarm DefenseNet, a cloud-based service that verifies the safety of a program by analyzing data from more than 60 million users.Ĭommercial customers will become aware of new threats discovered through the consumer product, since they are added to the cloud that they access. The product’s firewall and antivirus features are meant to integrate seamlessly, allowing for better protection and fewer updates for users, according to Check Point.
“We have a very significant divide between our consumer and our commercial business,” he said. The free ZoneAlarm product isn’t meant to compete with paid suites that partners resell to the enterprise market, but instead enhance ZoneAlarm’s brand and improve the overall quality of its products, said Paul Comessotti, Check Point’s regional director for Canada. Check Point has offered a free antivirus for several years, but this is its first “mini security suite” product.Ĭommercial users typically can’t use free downloads because of legislative or other requirements. The company launched its ZoneAlarm Free Antivirus + Firewall 2013 product in Canada this week, available to individual consumers (including home office users) and non-profits.
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Security vendor Check Point Software has launched its latest consumer antivirus and firewall product as a comprehensive offering for free, but not a threat to its channel partners who resell its suite products.
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