Asita Technologies' New Gx1 Security Platforms Achieve 'Secured by Check Point' Certification
Asita Gx1 Solutions Deliver High Performance Hosting of Multiple Security Applications in a single 2U Rack Mount UnitLondon, England - Asita Technologies, Inc., the London-based security solutions provider, today announced that the Asita Gx1 family of products has achieved "Secured by Check Point" certification from Check Point Software Technologies Ltd™. (Nasdaq:CHKP), the worldwide leader in securing the Internet. Asita's Gx1 solutions protect enterprise, government and service provider networks from a wide range of security attacks by hosting, integrating and accelerating best-of-breed security applications such as Check Point VPN-1®/FireWall-1®. Check Point's "Secured by Check Point" Appliance program is part of Check Point's Open Platform for Security (OPSEC™) partner alliance program. "Secured by Check Point" appliances meet Check Point's stringent security, usability and interoperability requirements, enabling customers to deploy appliances into their networks with complete confidence. All Asita Gx1 platforms have undergone a rigorous testing process to become certified as "Secured by Check Point", ensuring optimal operation, ease of use, and interoperability. Asita's Gx1 security platforms combine Asita's expertise in hosting, accelerating and managing multiple security applications with an advanced hardware architecture and best-of-breed security applications such as Check Point VPN-1/FireWall-1 Next Generation™, to deliver comprehensive, integrated security solutions at LAN backbone performance levels. Furthermore, integrating additional 'OPSEC-certified' security applications alongside VPN-1/FireWall-1 on a single Gx1 platform reduces capital expenditure, and minimizes deployment and on-going operating expenses by simplifying installation and maintenance tasks. "We are pleased to see Asita's Gx1 security platforms become 'Secured by Check Point' certified," said Farzad Tari, director of business development for Check Point Software Technologies. " Asita Gx1 platforms offer enterprise, government and service provider customers a high-performance and scalable family of 'Secured by Check Point' appliances." Two Asita Gx1 models are available: The Gx1-22 security platform, with dual Xeon processors, 10 high-speed LAN ports (including 4x 10/100/1000), and support for running 3 security applications (e.g. VPN-1/FireWall-1, Anti-Virus and Content Filtering) simultaneously on one unit. The Gx1-22 has full hot-swap hardware redundancy for PSUs, fans and RAID-1 hard drives, delivers 3.4 Gbps firewall throughput and is available now for $39,995. The Gx1-11 security platform, with one Intel Xeon processor, 7 high-speed LAN ports (including 4x 10/100/1000), and support for running 2 security applications (e.g. VPN-1/FireWall-1, and URL Filtering) simultaneously on one unit. The Gx1-11 delivers 2.7 Gbps firewall throughput and is available now for $24,995. " 'Secured by Check Point' certification underscores the excellent engineering of the Asita Gx1 security platform in combination with Check Point's market leading Internet security solutions," said Nick Brasier, VP of Product Management. "Asita's Gx1 products deliver uniquely flexible, resilient and high performance security solutions, protecting organizations from threats to their integrity and operational efficiency." For more information about the Asita Gx1 security platforms, visit www.asitatechnologies.com/cp or contact the Asita sales team at sales@asitatechnologies.com [or on 949-608-1990 (US), +44 (0)1276 804502 (Europe)] About
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