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Service Benefits

Reduced operational and compliance costs

Increased security and lowerrisk

Predictable and shorter change control windows

Improved reliability and stability

Lower overall TCO

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Lifecycle Management Service

Industry analysts estimate that 50% of annual IT infrastructure spending goes to maintain legacy systems. This prevents organizations from investing in new technologies and rolling out new solutions designed to defend against evolving threats and improving operational efficiency and profitability.

Check Point Lifecycle Management Services are focused on providing a solution to this challenging issue. They include a set of turn-key offerings that ensure security gateways and management systems are always on supported platforms at the most recent major release levels. The service also enables organizations to implement the most advanced protection technologies while reducing time and budget.

This can be done through cutting configuration of management effort by 95%, reducing provisioning effort by 90%, reducing critical patching time by 90% and thereby saving your IT Security department time by up to 50%.

Testing, Certification And Configuration Core to the service is a scalable and replicable process that delivers appliance performance testing, configuration certification and operating system conversion. Customers who participate in the service work with Check Point security architects to map their existing devices and forward- looking requirements to next generation platforms. Once selected, Check Point specialists deliver two primary work products: documented test results and certified configurations. This capability off loads from the customer the cumbersome certification requirement that often keeps legacy systems in- network far beyond their intended lifespan.

Integrating An Up-To-Date Security Architecture To further simplify the lifecycle management process, Lifecycle Management Service engineers can also integrate the new configurations on next generation appliances. Included in this process is an additional quality control step, in which OS, application and configuration are installed on the replacement devices and tested for stability. Lifecycle Management Service team members work with customer representatives to ship pre-configured security appliances to customer facilities and provide remote cut over assistance to enable seamless integration in production environments.

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Preventing Threats With The Software Blade Architecture Check Point security solutions provides a layered defense strategy for countering advanced threats. Unfortunately, customers are prevented from leveraging the latest software blades due to the age of their security appliances or open servers. Lifecycle Management helps address this issue through optional consulting services that define project roadmaps for incorporating these protections into security architectures, identifying the optimal locations for blade activation and defining rule-bases that deliver policies at the highest levels of security and performance.

Complete Security Lifecycle Offering Each Lifecycle Management Service customer receives a predictable, scalable migration path that enables effective protection against evolving threats and improved operational efficiency through analysis, planning, testing before implementing each upgrade or migration>>

Project planning • Project plan development • Time, resource and process management • Definition of goals and milestones • Escalation point defined

Certification • Test plan and topology requirements combined • New solutions certified by Check Point • Customized performance testing

Implementation • Accelerate implementation of the latestsecurity

technologies. • Migration from any 3rd party vendor likeJuniper/CISCO/

PAN/ Fortinet, etc. • New Security appliances pre-configured toyour

requirements.

Additional Consulting Services Lifecycle Management Services can be combined with complementary services, including:

• Governance, Risk and Compliance • Incident Response • Onsite and remote professional services • Management migration • Training and certification

Please Note: The Premium Factory method requires 2-legs of shipping at the responsibility of the partner.

For more information about Lifecycle Management Service, contact us at

services@checkpoint.com