Check Point Competitive Differentiation - Unified Security Management
This thumbnail value story highlights a key capability Check Point believes significantly differentiates its SSL VPN gateway from other vendors' products.
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Check Point offers the industry's leading integrated security and management solutions. These already enable 100% of the Fortune 100 to secure access to their network assets while enjoying substantial savings over point solutions. Check Point's NGX platform reduces the cost of security management by allowing administrators to centrally define and manage perimeter, internal and Web security policies - all from a single console. |
The challenge of effective security management
As enterprises increase their reliance on the Internet to conduct business, they have to balance increasing demands for access with the need to protect privacy and integrity of their information assets. Their response has led to a proliferation of security technologies within the corporate Internet-firewalls, SSL and IPSec VPNs, antivirus protection, and more-all adding to the complexity of security management. These security solutions have increased faster than security administrators' ability to keep pace. Today's administrators are overwhelmed with keeping up with incidents and with updating their security solutions. According to John Pescatore from Gartner Group, "Best-of-breed security has led to gaps in protection and a high cost of ownership because of the need for multiple management consoles and a lack of integration."
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In addition to managing myriad security point solutions, enterprises also have to comply with regulations, like those dictated by government agencies: the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA), the Sarbanes-Oxley Act, and Basel II, just to name a few. Last and most important, enterprises must ensure business continuity by mitigating risk at every level of the organization-all while maintaining budgets and achieving operational efficiencies. Meeting these challenges requires a new security management model that weaves the disparate security elements protecting an enterprise's business assets into a single, complete, and easily managed solution.
The Check Point solution
Check Point Software Technologies' security management architecture (SMART), which underlies Check Point's comprehensive set of security management products, offers the industry's only true unified security management solution to enable security administrators to take charge of their security solutions-without additional staff. SMART centralizes, integrates, and simplifies management of all aspects of Internet security, including networks and applications, as well as perimeter, internal, Web, and endpoint security.
NGX: The unified security architecture
Delivering a unified security architecture for perimeter, internal, and Web security, NGX is the latest security software platform for Check Point firewall, VPN, and management solutions. This unique platform offers hundreds of new features and extended functionality to more than 20 Check Point products including market leading VPN-1 and FireWall-1, Connectra, and InterSpect gateways. Enterprises of all sizes can now reduce the cost and complexity of security management and ensure that their security systems can easily extend to adapt to new and evolving threats.
Central management for Connectra NGX
NGX Connectra devices are now part of Check Point's centralized SMART management, integrating security, monitoring, logging, reporting, updating, and intelligent information processing in a single interface.
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Check Point's SMART centralized management system works with its entire family of security solutions to protect an organizations perimeter, internal and Web infrastructure”
Connectra can be managed through the following SMART management components:
SmartDashboard is the interface that enables administrators to centrally define security and VPN policies.
SmartView Tracker provides real-time visual tracking of all logged connections and administrator activity.
SmartView Monitor™allows real-time network, VPN, and user monitoring.
SmartPortal extends browser-based access to SmartCenter.
SmartMap™ enables visual management of security policies.
SmartUpdate™ centralizes the distribution and inventory of software and licenses.
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including this logged event of a user downloading a file over SSL VPN.
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across your entire network, including this software update for Connectra.
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To learn more about how Connectra integrates with Check Point's NGX unified security architecture you can access the following publications on the Check Point web site: Check Point Connectra Information and Evaluation Resources: Links to online information on Connectra and instructions on how to order an evaluation copy of Connectra. Check Point SMART Management White Paper. This white paper details how Check Point's SMART management solution simplifies security management while providing very competitive total cost of ownership (TCO) for Check Point Perimeter, Web, and Internal products. The NGX platform An overview of the NGX platform, how it enables enterprises of all sizes to reduce the cost and complexity of security management, and how it helps ensure that their security systems can be easily extended to adapt to new and evolving threats.
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