What's New in NGX
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The NGX platform delivers hundreds of important new features, improvements, and enhancements to over thirty Check Point products, delivering stronger protection and smarter management to protect more network and application types than any other solution. NGX is the platform that enables the sharing of common security technologies, Unified Security management, and Universal Updateability across all Check Point solutions. It represents a unique approach to enterprise-wide information security by enabling a unified security architecture across an entire security system.
See just some of the important new benefits available by upgrading your Check Point products to the NGX platform and planning your upgrade today.
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| Unified perimeter, internal and Web and endpoint security management allows administrators to centrally manage and monitor security policies – all from a single console. |
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| Simple SmartCenter Updating Check Point introduces the concept of management plug-ins, enabling incremental addition of new management functionality with the need for a complete SmartCenter upgrade. This will enable organizations to more easily add and manage new functionality on gateways. |
| Centralized Management of Gateways and Endpoints Check Point gateways and endpoints – VPN-1 Power, VPN-1 UTM, VPN-1 VSX, InterSpect, Connectra, UTM-1 Edge and Check Point Endpoint Security - can now be centrally managed via SmartCenter NGX for total visibility and control of perimeter, internal, Web and endpoint security from a single console. |
| SmartCenter Integration of SmartDefense Services SmartDefense Services console integration into SmartCenter gives administrators a single, unified console for all SmartDefense Services, enabling businesses to deal with newly discovered security threats quickly and comprehensively. |
| SmartCenter and Provider-1 Unified Views SmartCenter and Provider-1 now provide centralized logging, tracking, monitoring, updating and reporting for all Check Point products, providing a unified view of log data for better understanding of network status and security deployments. |
| Smart Portal Extends browser-based SmartCenter NGX access to outside groups such as Technical Support staff or auditors to manage internal users and view SmartDefense and Web Intelligence attacks. |
| SmartView Monitor SmartView Monitor has been enhanced to unify real-time monitoring of security, network, and VPN tunnel and user activity, and provide more detailed error descriptions and status on Check Point Endpoint Security and Content Inspection (AV). |
| Eventia Reporter Dramatically improved performance and expanded reporting for Connectra, InterSpect, Check Point Endpoint Security, VPN-1 UTM and UTM-1 Edge for end-to-end visibility and automated reports of security and network activity trends. |
| Expanded intelligent inspection technologies secure more threats than any other solution – including difficult to secure applications such as VoIP. |
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| Comprehensive VoIP Security The NGX platform delivers the most comprehensive protocol support for VoIP, including: H.323, SIP, MGCP and Cisco SCCP (Skinny) VoIP Denial of Service prevention. |
| Enhanced Web Application Protection Web Intelligence can now block LDAP injection and directory listing attacks on web servers and provides administrators with more granular control over HTTP methods. |
| Expanded SmartDefense The NGX platform delivers added protections for MS RPC, DCE-RPC, DNS Security, Email Security, unicast and multicast routing, and P2P (for non-Web traffic) to state of the art Application Intelligence technology. For example, administrators now have more granular control over MSN Messenger functions such as file transfers, application sharing and white boarding. |
| Enhanced Endpoint Enforcement VPN-1 NGX can now cooperate with Check Point Endpoint Security for network access control of endpoints on the LAN as well as remote endpoints. It can also enforce compliance by interacting with Intel network interface cards (NICs) that have the vPro technology. This enables customers to gain a higher level of control over endpoint security by including firewall/VPN/intrusion prevention gateways as part of a NAC solution. |
| Check Point advances universal updateability to enable real-time security updates from a single, unified interface without service interruption. |
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| Unified Console for all SmartDefense Services Administrators can now centrally manage, download, and enable real-time SmartDefense Services security updates from a single, unified interface without interruption for VPN-1, Connectra and InterSpect. |
| Smart Update Smart Update provides administrators with clear visibility and control of new releases and available Hot Fixes, updating all remote site devices centrally and ensuring consistent protection across the entire network. |
| Global SmartDefense for Provider-1 Centralized, global SmartDefense updates and configuration for Provider-1 enables service providers and large enterprises to more easily push policies to end-users, streamlining management and maintaining the most current pre-emptive security. |
Take advantage of these important new features and hundreds of others available only with the NGX platform, order your NGX Upgrade Kit and start planning your upgrade today.