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The R70 release is nearing. For those of you lucky to be in the EA program, you know already how great this release is shaping up to be. If you are going to CPX 2009, you will get a complete

HFA40 for Provider-1 is mainly a set of enhancements. One of these enhancements is ‘P1shell.’ This is an alternative shell for Provider-1 that allows an admin to run Provider-1 specific commands without having Root access. You can set it to

If not, you need to start considering an upgrade no later than June 1st 2009, as that is when support will end for R60 to R62. R70 is just around the corner, so you will have a couple of choices.

Looks like the HFA40 package is the same for Provider-1 and VPN-1, and UTM-1. No need to download it twice like I did 🙂 Two interesting things to test out are the new Provider-1 Shell and the Cross CMA-Shell (finally!).

Hopefully you received an email notification. Taking at a look at the release notes right now…

I do a lot of work with Provider-1 customers and this question comes up every once in a while. They are usually going through the process of cleaning up their objects and policies. It is during this process that they

Back in early December ’08 Check Point quietly released three new appliances for VSX. A quick note to those not familiar with VSX: it is Check Point’s virtual firewall product and has been around for almost ten years. VSX started

Here’s a quick one: In a previous posting I explained how when using SNX in a Provider-1 environment, you needed to license SNX to the IP of the MDS (Multi-Domain Server). Apparently this has now changed. When using Provider-1 R65