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• Media Alert: Check Point To Demo Its Full Disk Encryption For Mac Pro
• Media Alert: Check Point To Demo Its Full Disk Encryption For Mac Free

REDWOOD CITY, Calif.-( )-Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd. (Nasdaq:CHKP), the worldwide leader in securing the Internet, today announced that users of Check Point Endpoint Security™ are protected against Nine Ball, a multi-layered Web browser attack targeting legitimate Web sites to redirect users to malicious sites owned by the attacker.

Check Point Endpoint Security Full Disk Encryption, Pointsec PC 6.3.1 Validation Report, Version 2.0. Provide complete protection of information resources stored on fixed media in a desktop, workstation, or laptop. ST Check Point Endpoint Security Full Disk Encryption Security Target, Version 2.4, 22 June 2009 Evaluation.

Media Alert: Check Point To Demo Its Full Disk Encryption For Mac Pro

Check Point Endpoint Security™ antivirus capabilities protect enterprise desktops and laptops against the malicious programs downloaded through the Nine Ball exploit, preventing the attacker from gaining access to proprietary data. The antivirus feature removes the malicious programs currently delivered through Nine Ball. The Nine Ball attack first works by infecting a legitimate Web site, and then redirects the visiting victim to a malicious site owned by the attacker. The compromised Website, loaded with malware, checks for vulnerabilities in the browser, Microsoft Data Access Components (MDAC), AOL Super Buddy, Adobe or QuickTime software on the user’s desktop, making the victim susceptible to a drive-by-download attempt. If successful, the attack will download a Trojan with a keylogger component used to log keystrokes. Anything the victim types could be monitored and used to commit data theft, such as stealing customer data, corporate credit card numbers or passwords.

“Corporate endpoints are a vulnerable entry point for exploits and can affect an entire organization if confidential data is leaked or misused,” said Ben Khoushy, vice president of endpoint products at Check Point. “As part of Check Point’s Total Security offering, our Endpoint Security solution protects against mass compromise attacks like Nine Ball, and also provides anti-spyware and encryption capabilities.” Check Point Endpoint Security™ is the first and only single agent that combines all essential components for total endpoint security including: highest-rated firewall, antivirus, anti-spyware, full disk encryption, media encryption with port protection, network access control (NAC), program control and VPN. It protects endpoints and networks while eliminating the need to deploy and manage multiple agents, reducing total cost of ownership (TCO). More information on Check Point Endpoint Security can be found at: About Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. , worldwide leader in securing the Internet, is the only vendor to deliver Total Security for networks, data and endpoints, unified under a single management framework.

Check Point provides customers uncompromised protection against all types of threats, reduces security complexity and lowers total cost of ownership. Check Point first pioneered the industry with FireWall-1 and its patented stateful inspection technology. Today, Check Point continues to innovate with the development of the Software Blade architecture. The dynamic Software Blade architecture delivers secure, flexible and simple solutions that can be fully customized to meet the exact security needs of any organization or environment. Check Point customers include tens of thousands of businesses and organizations of all sizes including all Fortune 100 companies. Check Point's award-winning ZoneAlarm solutions protect millions of consumers from hackers, spyware and identity theft. ©2009 Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.

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While you can't tell for certain, you can tell within a certain range of confidence. Encrypted data looks like white noise: each bit has exactly a 50% probability of being set, regardless of the rest of the bits; there is no correlation between any given bit and any of the others. It's purely random. It turns out that this high quality of randomness isn't particularly common in a hard drive's normal lifecycle. In general there's some pattern or another.

Either a residual pattern from the manufacturing process, or a pattern from the filesystem setup, or a pattern from current or previously-deleted files. K-array efun-w for mac. So if a disk contains pure white noise, then the most likely explanation is that either someone did a 'secure erase' on the drive, or it contains encrypted information. As an exception, one common unencrypted form of data that often looks a lot like noise is compressed data.

Media Alert: Check Point To Demo Its Full Disk Encryption For Mac Free

The higher the compression ratio, the more it will resemble encrypted data. Still, compressed data usually has tell-tale markers so a more careful examination can generally rule that out. If the data is filled with randomness then that means that it is encrypted. Is it that easy to tell? If I am going to throw out, or give away, a hard disk I would remove personal data from it by running a program like shred which replaces the contents with random data. Thus the presence of random data proves nothing. You might then reformat that disk with some file system or other, which would make the first part of the disk look normal, and the rest random.

That still doesn't prove if the random part is encrypted, or just left-over from the cleanup operation. I'm a little surprised that most encryption products leave signatures lying around as described by Silverfox. That seems to lend the user open to brute-force decryption as described here.