Author: Pat

Released just in time for CPX in Las Vegas, R71 was posted today. Major highlights: New DLP Blade Integrated IPS-1 Management Firewall Rule Expiration <—–Wow Performance Enhancements Provider-1 Enhancements Eventia renamed to SmartEvent and more…. Looks like you can upgrade

The new HFA02 for VSX is now available for public EA. This is a good sign, and I would expect to see it go public GA in the next few weeks.  See my previous post for a link to the

It was just announced internally at Check Point that HFA02 for VSX R65 is being released. As far as “what is new”, it looks to be a list of a dozen or so issues that have been addressed. Word is

Saw today in the ‘downloads’ section that R70.30 has been released. Not a whole of fixes that have been documented at this point. It is possible that more ‘fixes’ are included than are actually documented in the release notes. I

I had mentioned in a previous post that R70 had been submitted for Common Criteria Certification. Looks like the NIAP page was updated recently as it now reflects R70 and several other products. R70 “Software Blades” will be certified on

Saw this over on the NIAP page last week. Scroll down to the Check Point listings, and you will see a new entry: Looks like VSX R65 and Provider-1 R70 were submitted for evaluation on Dec 21st 2009. This is

Hopefully you received the announcement today via email. If not, then follow these steps. Release Notes Posted below: NGX R65 VPN-1 NGX R65 Provider-1 *Updated Dec. 1oth to include Release Notes

In a previous post I had written that R70.12 was available as a public EA. Well now it looks like a newer version will be available possibly Q4. The newer version is R70.20 and will supersede R70.12. This newer version

Are you getting the email notifications on HFAs and new releases? I am finding that some of my customers are not getting this information sent to their mailbox. It is pretty easy to setup once you know how to get