Best-of-Breed Approach Integrates Solutions
From Over 325 Partners -- to be Outlined at OPSEC Developer's Conference
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., Sept. 23, 2002
— Check Point Software Technologies
Ltd., the worldwide leader in securing the Internet, today unveiled
its roadmap to integrate and simplify the management of multi-vendor
security environments via new capabilities in Check Point's revolutionary
Security Management Architecture (SMART™). The new Check Point
Smart OPSEC Manager™ centrally manages and administers all
OPSEC™ certified applications from the SmartDashboard™,
enabling integrated security while dramatically lowering the customer's
total cost of ownership. The roadmap will be further detailed at
next week's OPSEC Developers Conference, Oct.1-2 in Northern California.
The three major capability areas within Smart
OPSEC Manager being detailed include:
- Policy Management enables
an integrated security policy across all users, applications,
systems and networks. Today, customers can manage their entire
security policy across all OPSEC certified products via Check
Point's SmartDashboard. Check Point Policy centralized management
architectures allows managing application operations and parameters
(1H03) from within the same framework, as well as leveraging vendor
specific management tools that can be launched directly from the
SmartDashboard. This open approach provides the best of all worlds
- consistent single console for management, integrated parameters
and management while retaining the full power of each vendor unique
management tools - when those are needed.
- Incident Management allows
for event identification, isolation, response and prevention across
users, applications, systems and networks. Today, Check Point's
SmartView Family imports and integrates event logs from OPSEC
certified security applications and network devices and exports
event logs to external management systems. In 1H'03, security
administrators will be able to automatically correlate events
and generate real-time automated responses.
- Security Provisioning provides
easy set-up, deployment, monitoring and upgrades of all security
modules in the enterprise. Today, using SmartCenter™ users
can quickly provision multi-vendor security solutions. In 4Q'02,
security administrators will be able to provision OPSEC certified
security applications with the ease of Check Point's "One-Click"
technology.
These comprehensive integrated management capabilities
are enabled via more than 20 OPSEC interfaces that include Check
Point application programming interfaces (APIs) and industry standard
protocols. All OPSEC compliant products are rigorously tested and
certified for seamless interoperability. With over 325 participating
vendors and over 175 OPSEC certified products, OPSEC guarantees
customers the industry's broadest choice of integrated applications
and deployment platforms that can be centrally managed.
Jim LoTruglio, Vice President of Information Technology
for The Hearst Corporation states, "We are very excited about
this next evolution of integration of our security architecture.
We have seen significant value in leveraging the Check Point OPSEC
framework, and believe this new capability provides an even greater
benefit."
"The industry has chosen a best-of-breed
security approach, which requires management tools that integrate
and interoperate with multiple products from multiple vendors,"
said Asheem Chandna, vice president of business development and
product management for Check Point Software Technologies. "While
other vendors recognize this as the future for security management,
Check Point is the only one delivering this today. With our multi-vendor
management roadmap, we're pleased to once again raise the bar and
further advance security management."
OPSEC Developers Conference
The Check Point multi-vendor security management roadmap will be
further discussed at next week's OPSEC Developers Conference in
San Mateo, Calif. on October 1-2. Participants at this year's conference
include industry leaders such as IBM, Network Associates, Nokia,
Sun Micro, Trend Micro, VeriSign and Websense. More information
on the conference can be found at URL no longer available.
About Check Point's
OPSEC
OPSEC (Open Platform for Security) is the industry's open, multi-vendor
security framework. With over 325 partners, OPSEC guarantees customers
the broadest choice of best-of-breed integrated applications and
deployment platforms that support Check Point's Secure Virtual Network
Architecture. Products that carry the OPSEC Certified seal have
been tested to guarantee integration and interoperability. For complete
OPSEC Alliance program information, including partner and product
listings, the freely available OPSEC SDK (software development kit)
and evaluation versions of OPSEC Certified products, visit http://www.opsec.com.
About Check Point Software
Technologies
Check Point Software Technologies is the worldwide leader in securing
the Internet. It is the confirmed market leader of both the worldwide
VPN and firewall markets. The company's Secure Virtual Network (SVN)
architecture provides the VPN and security infrastructure that uniquely
enables secure and reliable Internet communications. SVN solutions,
as delivered in the company's Next Generation product family, secure
business communications and resources for corporate networks, remote
employees, branch offices and partner extranets. Extending the power
of SVN is Check Point's Open Platform for Security (OPSEC), the
industry's framework and alliance for integration and interoperability
with "best-of-breed" solutions from over 325 leading companies.
Check Point solutions are sold, integrated and serviced by a network
of 2,500 certified partners in 149 countries. For more information,
please call us at (800) 429-4391 or (650) 628-2000 or visit us on
the Web at http://www.checkpoint.com
or at http://www.opsec.com.
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