Software Blades
The Check Point Software Blade Architecture supports a complete and increasing selection of Software Blades, each delivering a modular security gateway or security management function. Because Software Blades are modular and moveable, Software Blades enable users to efficiently and quickly tailor Security Gateway and Management functionality to specific and changing security needs. New blades are quickly licensed as needed without the addition of new hardware.
Security Gateway and Security Management blades available today include:
Security Gateway Software Blades
- Firewall - World's most proven firewall secures more than 200 applications, protocols and services featuring the most adaptive and intelligent inspection technology.
- IPsec VPN - Secure connectivity for offices and endpoint users via sophisticated but easy to manage Site-to-Site VPN and flexible remote access.
- IPS - The highest performing integrated IPS solution with the industry's best threat coverage
- Web Security - Advanced protection for the entire Web environment featuring the strongest protection against buffer-overflow attacks.
- URL Filtering - Best-of-breed Web filtering covering more than 20 million URLs protects users and enterprises by restricting access to dangerous Web sites.
- Antivirus & Anti-Malware - Leading antivirus protection including heuristic virus analysis stops viruses, worms and other malware at the gateway
- Anti-Spam & Email Security - Multi-dimensional protection for the messaging infrastructure stops spam, protects servers and eliminates attacks through email.
- Advanced Networking - Adds dynamic routing, multicast support and Quality of Service (QOS) to security gateways.
- Acceleration & Clustering - Patented SecureXL and ClusterXL technologies provide wire speed packet inspection, high availability and load sharing.
- Voice over IP - More than 60 VoIP application defenses and advanced QoS methods protect the VoIP infranstructure from attacks such as denial of service while delivering high voice quality.
Security Management Software Blades
Security Management Software Blades
- Network Policy Management - Comprehensive network security policy management for Check Point gateways and blades via SmartDashboard, a single, unified console
- Endpoint Policy Management - Centrally deploy, manage, monitor and enforce security policy for all endpoint devices across any sized organization.
- Logging & Status - Comprehensive information in the form of logs and a complete visual picture of changes to gateways, tunnels, remove users and security activities
- Monitoring - A complete view of network and security performance, enabling fast response to changes in traffic patterns and security events.
- Management Portal - Extends a browser-based view of security policies to outside groups such as support staff while maintaining central policy control
- User Directory - Enables Check Point gateways to leverage LDAP-based user information stores, eliminating the risks associated with manually maintaining and synchronizing redundant data stores.
- IPS Event Analysis - Complete IPS event management system providing situational visibility, easy to use forensic tools, and reporting.
- Provisioning - Provides centralized administration and provisioning of Check Point security devices via a single management console.
- Reporting - Turns vast amounts of security and network data into graphical, easy-to-understand reports.
- Event Correlation - Centralized, real-time security event correlation and management for Check Point and third-party devices.
