Case Study: Regional Credit Union achieves zero-day protection and major remediation time savings with Check Point Software SandBlast

Regional Credit Union Protects Users with Enhanced Network Security

A large regional U.S. credit union that manages billions in assets and extensive sensitive customer data was struggling with email-borne threats—malicious attachments, phishing and zero-day malware—that their four-person information security team spent up to 20 hours a week remediating. Their signature-based firewall and email gateway were letting advanced threats through, risking customer data and operational disruption.

The credit union deployed Check Point SandBlast Zero-Day Protection (Threat Extraction and CPU-level Threat Emulation) on its gateway. The solution stopped over a thousand malicious and zero-day files in one year, blocked a targeted spear-phishing campaign, delivered clean attachments, produced detailed forensic reports, cut remediation time to almost zero, and paid for itself within the first year while significantly improving the organization’s security posture.