Next Generation Firewall

What is Next Generation Firewall?

Is your network under constant threat? To protect it, you need the most advanced firewall protection. Check Point Next Generation Firewall identifies and controls applications by the user and scans content to stop threats.

Benefits

• Detects and controls application usage
• Identify, enable, block, or limit the use of applications and resources within them
• Enable secure internet use while protecting against threats and malware
• Enjoy the world's largest application library with over 8,000 web 2.0 apps

• Provides proven gateway security on a single dedicated appliance
• Rely on advanced 24/7 protection
• Enjoy the benefits of application control and intrusion protection (IPS) and additional security features
• Gain greater understanding of security events with integrated, easy-to-use centralized management

Features

Identity awareness

Great security involves limiting and tracking access to sensitive data and resources. With Next Generation Firewall, your administrators get detailed visibility into the users, groups, applications, machines, and connection types on your network, so they can assign permissions to the right users and devices. The firewall makes it easy and cost-effective to comply with the security policy by providing granular permission control over these entities; this results in superior protection throughout the security gateway.

Seamless integrations with leading Identity and Access Management (IAM) vendors, such as Microsoft Active Directory, provide complete user identification, enabling a simple, application-based policy definition per user, device, or group directly from the firewall. User identification can be acquired via:

• Integrations with IAM vendors or a Web API
• Through a captive portal
• Installing a single agent on the client side

Application control

Check Point Next Generation Firewall has the largest application coverage in the industry, with more than 8,000 apps and 260,000 social network widgets included. You can create granular security policies based on users or groups to identify, block, or limit the use of web apps and widgets, such as instant messaging, social networks, video streaming, VoIP, games, and more.

Registration and status

To help you understand security event data, we've included SmartLog, an advanced record analyzer that provides search results in fraction of a second, providing real-time visibility into billions of records across multiple time periods and domains.

Integrated security management

Our unified security management simplifies the monumental task of managing your security environment. You'll see and control threats, devices, and users with a highly intuitive graphical interface, providing visualizations, details, and reports on your security integrity. Manage all your Check Point software gateways and blades from a comprehensive, centralized security dashboard.

Intrusion prevention

Next Generation Firewall includes the Check Point IPS Software Blade, which protects your network by inspecting packets that traverse the gateway. It is a feature-packed IPS, providing geoprotections and frequent, automated updates of threat definitions. Because IPS is part of the integrated Blade Software Architecture, you'll get all the advantages of deploying and managing a unified, extensible solution.

Ease of expansion

As your security needs increase, you can easily add to your solution with additional features and blades such as Data Loss Prevention, Threat Emulation, Threat Extraction Software Blades, and more.

System Requirements

Hardware

Dial-up internet connection.

Monitor with resolution of 1024x768.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 8 or Mozilla Firefox.

Adobe Acrobat Reader 5.0, to view PDF forms and the Checkpoint User Reference Guide.

Recommended configuration for tablets

Apple iPad (latest version) or Android (latest version)

Safari (latest version) or Android action browser (latest version)

Recommended Mobile Configuration

Apple iPhone / iPod touch (latest version) or Android (latest version)

Safari (latest version) or Android action browser (latest version)

Programs

High-speed internet connection.

Microsoft Internet Explorer (latest version) or Mozilla Firefox (latest version).

Adobe Acrobat Reader (latest version).