TABLE OF CONTENTS A hot topic over the past few years, malicious code can cause your organization great harm. In recent years, you are sure to know that malicious code has caused billions of dollars of total damage to small and large firms alike. Since your Check Point VPN-1 Pro Gateway includes the ability to reduce the risk of massive damage from harmful code, let s take this opportunity to go over the finer points of what constitutes malicious code and what it may look like.
NGX interprets malicious code as anything that, when executed, violates the security policy of or compromises the integrity of one of your Web servers or Web clients. In other words, anything that when executed will bring harm to your environment (server or client).
Consider the normal scenario of your typical Web session. When you open a Uniform Resource Locator (URL), you expect to download the text, images, or multimedia that you desire to see. What happens if there is code in the executable that will remove files from your hard drive or install a worm, virus, or other spyware utility on your computer? You did not intend for this to happen, you expected a completely different result from launching the site. You may not even know that your computer has been compromised. This is another reason to have an NGX gateway protect your network. Even though you may think that something is normal, there could be unexpected results. NGX protects your servers and clients from...
