- US companies are helping Saudi Arabia to build an AI powerhouse
- US companies are helping Saudi Arabia to build an AI powerhouse
- My favorite Garmin feature comes to its new Forerunner watch
- You can try Microsoft's free AI skills training for two more weeks, and I recommend you do
- Trade in your phone to Verizon and get almost any new phone for free - here's how
Check Point CISO: Network segregation can prevent blackouts, disruptions
Fischbein agrees 100% with his colleague’s analysis and adds that education and training can help prevent such incidents from occurring. “Simulating such a blackout is impossible, it has never been done,” he acknowledges, but he is committed to strengthening personal and team training and risk awareness.
Increased defense and cybersecurity budgets
In 2025, industry watchers expect there will be an increase in the public budget allocated to defense. In Spain, one-third of the budget will be allocated to increasing cybersecurity. But for Fischbein, training teams is much more important than the budget.
“The challenge is to distribute the budget in a way that can be managed,” he notes, and to leverage intuitive and easy-to-use platforms, so that organizations don’t have to invest all the money in training. “When you have information, management, users, devices, mobiles, data centers, clouds, cameras, printers… the security challenge is very complex. You have to look for a security platform that makes things easier, faster, and simpler,” he says. ” Today there are excellent tools that can stop all kinds of attacks.”
“Since 2010, there have been cybersecurity systems, also from Check Point, that help prevent this type of incident from happening, but I’m not sure that [Spain’s electricity blackout] was a cyberattack.”
Leading the way in email security
According to Gartner’s Magic Quadrant, Check Point is the leader in email security platforms. Today email is still responsible for 88% of all malicious file distributions. Attacks that, as Fischbein explains, enter through phishing, spam, SMS, or QR codes.
“There are two challenges: to stop the threats and not to disturb, because if the security tool is a nuisance it causes more harm than good. It is very important that the solution does not annoy [users],” he stresses. “As almost all attacks enter via e-mail, it is very important that the security tool gives you the information, the loads, and the alerts. With our tool, it takes very little time to understand what happened. We are very pleased to lead this area,” he adds.
With 23 years at Check Point and 30 years in the cybersecurity world, Fischbein says the main challenge for the CISO of a company like Check Point is to convey and demonstrate confidence to customers and suppliers. “Our company’s job is to put together the security tools that are going to help stop threats in companies of all sizes. If we can’t secure Check Point internally, then we have a big problem in securing the world,” he says.
