R80.20 was released this week. This is the FULL version as opposed to the R80.20 M1 which was released for “management-only.” There are some interesting new features, and you will see “previously supported in R77.30” sprinkled throughout the Release Notes…which
As I predicted they would, Check Point engaged NSS Labs in a follow-up to the 2018 NGFW Group Test: “During the NSS Labs 2018 Next Generation Firewall (NGFW) Group Test, the Check Point 15600 Next Generation Threat Prevention (NGTP) Appliance
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On a whim, I went and took the new R80.10 CCSA exam today. A few months ago I had to sit through about three days of labs and content for the course. The course material is pretty good (although having
Check Point published their response to Meltdown and Spectre: SK122205 Check Point’s take on these so far is that they are of low relevance due to the nature of the attacks: local privilege escalation. A patch may be in the
As you probably expected, NONE of the Check Point products (600 / 700 / 1100 / 1400) are vulnerable to KRACK. Check Point Response to KRACK Attacks: sk120938 *yawn*
R80.10 is now GA (General Availability). There is a long list of enhancements, but the largest one is probably the fact that for the first time R80 is now available for the gateway with significant performance enhancements. The overall list of
This was absolutely amazing. It will be interesting to see what happens in the next few days. Palo Alto Networks has never been profitable. Is it possible their number is up? So little re-investment in
Had a Check Point SE forward this to me: GAIA Embedded R77.20.50 now includes support for SandBlast. This is really cool and unexpected. Did I miss this in one of the SKO presentations last month? With this update, the
From Check point’s page: R77.30 was released on May 19, 2015 and it consolidates all previous releases. From within CPUSE: So what is new? Some highlights: Threat Extraction