Check Point products protect the corporate assets of the majority of Fortune 100 companies and other leading companies and government agencies across the globe. As of June 1998, the company had more than 51,000 installations worldwide, with more than 8,500 networks worldwide using its award-winning VPN solution. MetaInfo has 15,000 installations of the Meta DNS and Meta IP products worldwide.
Check Point Product Line Overview
Enterprise Security Management
The flagship of the company’s Enterprise Security Management product line, Check Point FireWall-1 is the company’s award-winning enterprise security suite that integrates access control, authentication, encryption, network address translation, content security, and auditing. The suite is unified by Check Point’s Open Platform for Secure Enterprise Connectivity (OPSEC) framework, which provides integration and enterprise management for FireWall-1 and many third-party network security applications. Check Point’s other offerings in the Enterprise Security Management product line include the VPN-1 family of products developed by Check Point to meet the demanding requirements of enterprise virtual private networks (VPNs) providing secure Internet-based connectivity to corporate networks, remote and mobile users, satellite offices, and partner sites, server encryption software for VPNs. This family includes also VPN-1 RemoteLink, VPN-1 Accelerator Card, and VPN-1 SecuRemote ™ .
Enterprise Traffic Management
Check Point FloodGate-1 is a policy-based bandwidth management solution that alleviates traffic congestion on oversubscribed Internet and Intranet links. The flagship product of the company’s Enterprise Traffic Management product line, FloodGate-1 enables organizations to define and manage enterprise-wide policies that precisely control valuable bandwidth resources to optimize network performance and alleviate network congestion. Also included in the product line is ConnectControl™, Check Point’s server load balancing solution.
Enterprise Infrastructure Management
Check Point Open Security Manager™ is a third-party security device management product that allows network managers to define, manage, and distribute security policies for multiple third-party security devices such as Cisco PIX, Microsoft Steelhead Router, and routers from Bay Networks, Cisco, and 3Com. Also included in the product line are Meta Info’s IP address management products, Meta DNS™ and Meta IP™ . These products simplify the administration of IP networks of any size.
Technology Overview
Stateful Inspection was invented and patented by Check Point Software Technologies and is the de facto standard in network security technology. Stateful Inspection provides accurate and highly-efficient traffic inspection with full application-layer awareness to deliver the highest level of security and performance. Because Stateful Inspection does not require a separate proxy to secure every service, customers experience higher performance, scalability, and the ability to support new and custom applications much more quickly than with older architectures.
Intelligent Queuing (IQ) Engine is a revolutionary new technology invented by Check Point which enables organizations to define highly granular levels of traffic classification, queuing, and scheduling by dynamically controlling entire classes of traffic, not just individual connections. A core technology component of the FloodGate-1 policy-based bandwidth management solution, the IQ Engine™ intelligently and actively allocates available bandwidth for specified Internet services, users, groups, or designated network resources.
Open Platform For Secure Enterprise Connectivity (OPSEC)
Check Point pioneered the Open Platform for Secure Enterprise Connectivity (OPSEC), a revolutionary concept that delivers the industry’s only enterprise-wide security framework. Using a combination of published application programming interfaces (APIs), industry- standard protocols and a high-level scripting language, OPSEC provides a single framework that integrates and manages all aspects of network security through an open, extensible management framework. With OPSEC, customers can easily, seamlessly, and selectively integrate a full spectrum of security applications, defined and driven by a single, central enterprise-wide security policy. Customers have the choice of integrating more than 150 OPSEC solutions to create their own custom enterprise security suites.
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