Check Point Software Technologies has announced it has been positioned by Gartner in the leaders quadrant in the recent report "Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Network Firewalls" 1. According to Gartner, the Leaders quadrant is part of a diverse set of large and medium-sized vendors, characterized by the ability to create products able to respond to enterprise needs. These requirements include a wide range of models, support for virtualization and virtual LANs as well as management and reporting features designed for complex environments and high volume, such as multi-level administration and minimization of rules / policies. The offer NGFW (Next Generation Firewall) is an important element that allows businesses to avoid resorting to dedicated IPS appliances for the perimeter and remote locations. Vendors listed in the Dial are market leaders in the supply of new security features and provide highcompetence, rather than treating the firewall as a simple commodity, and showing the constant ability to avoid vulnerabilities in their security products. Other common features are represented by the ability to handle even the highest throughput with minimal performance loss and options for hardware acceleration.
With the proliferation of Web 2.0 technologies and mobile computing, the volume and sophistication of Internet threats has increased, making it increasingly difficult to manage security for many companies. Check Point R75 provides comprehensive security by integrating all critical software blade protections that businesses need to safeguard their business in today's IT environments, including: Firewall, VPN, Application Control, Intrusion Prevention, Identity Awareness, Data Loss Prevention, and Mobile Access. Check Point R75 reinforces the 3D Security strategy of the company and provides important protections at the blade level software, which allow you to gain greater visibility and control over data, Web 2.0 applications and mobile access, giving organizations multi-dimensional security in a ' only integrated solution.
"As the complexity of security is often the number one enemy that IT administrators are facing, companies are looking for solutions that can provide complete protection, easy to use and able to adapt to changing business needs," said Juliette Sultan, head of global marketing at Check Point Software Technologies. "The position in the Leaders quadrant affirms our ability to help customers simplify security by providing protection against a wide range of threats through a single, unified solution."
Check Point continues its commitment is to offer its customers innovative security technologies based on its Software Blade Architecture ™. The latest software release - R75.20 - offers a new URL Filtering solution that integrates with Application Control, and includes SSL Inspection expanding your Data Loss Prevention capabilities. Check Point R75.20 is the continuity of Check Point's vision, aims to consider security as a business process combining policies, people and enforcement for greater protection across all security levels.
Check Point also announced a new Anti-Bot Software Blade that helps customers discover bots and prevents any damages by blocking communication between infected hosts and remote operators. The Anti-Bot solution will be integrated into every security gateway to provide businesses with multi-layered bot prevention against malware threats, thus ensuring the safety of all company communication channels.
Finally, the new line of appliances, Check Point introduced last October, it provides the most comprehensive security sector with performance up to three times higher. These eight new appliances integrate more security capabilities by improving the bandwidth and increasing network speeds.
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1 December, 2011: Magic Quadrant for Enterprise Network Firewalls, di Greg Young e John Pescatore