Gene Manyak manages Check Point’s SmartDefense Services and has expertise across Check Point product and technology offerings. SmartDefense Services provide preemptive, ongoing, and real-time updates on exploits and vulnerabilities, and new attack protection capabilities to all existing Check Point customers and configuration advisories for Check Point defenses and security policies. Before joining Check Point, Manyak led product marketing activities at Valicert and was a general management consultant with A.T. Kearney, where he specialized in IT-related management challenges. Gene holds a BS in computer science from Cal Poly and an MBA from the University of Chicago.
Version upgrades from software, infrastructure, and security vendors give
businesses the impression that their enterprises are protected from new
threats — but is it a false sense of security? The answer is yes if
your security deployment doesn’t address the elements that comprise
today’s threat landscape.
Hackers Don’t Wait for Patches
To stay ahead of hackers, security software vendors release version upgrades
on a regular basis. These upgrades typically include new defenses against the
most recent attacks. However, major upgrades take time to implement, and to
maximize operational efficiency, many organizations install upgrades once a
year or less. Some larger global organizations upgrade their security
mechanisms only once every several years. Even in a best-case scenario, when
an organization immediately upgrades to new security software v... (more)
Gene Manyak manages Check Point’s SmartDefense Services and has expertise across Check Point product and technology offerings. SmartDefense Services provide preemptive, ongoing, and real-time updates on exploits and vulnerabilities, and new attack protection capabilities to all existing Check Point customers and configuration advisories for Check Point defenses and security policies. Before joining Check Point, Manyak led product marketing activities at Valicert and was a general management consultant with A.T. Kearney, where he specialized in IT-related management challenges. Gene holds a BS in computer science from Cal Poly and an MBA from the University of Chicago.
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