Check Point released R65 on Monday. This press announcement will give you more info. Along with the R65 release Check Point debuts its new website and colors, and a new logo for the year: “Pure Security.” The release notes have
Got DST?
I have had a lot of questions regarding the new Daylight Saving Time (DST) for North America. Traditionally, DST takes place in the first week of April. However starting in 2007 that has been moved to to March. Check out
Licensing MDS Pro Add-ons
Came across this last week: Had a customer that wanted SmartView Monitor for their MDS-10. In Provider-1 this requires adding the ‘MDS Pro Add-on.’ The Pro Add-on essentially gives Provider-1 customers the features that you get in SmartCenter Power: “The
Check Point Announces intent to acquire Pointsec
Gil Schwed announced today that Check Point will acquire Stockholm based Data Security vendor Pointsec. This is expected to close by Dec 22nd. Pointsec produces software that “ensure that data stored on mobile computing devices such as laptops, PDAs, and
An Open Letter to Richard Stiennon
Richard, I found your letter extremely misleading and irresponsible. Your analysis is flawed and incomplete in many areas. You start out by making some very odd and false assumptions that we readers are supposed to blindly accept:
SmartDefense Updates in R61 and R62
I had an interesting question from a customer last week. They had recently moved their SmartCenter from R55 to R61. After doing this doing this they noticed the “Check for new updates when SmartDashboard is started” check box was missing
R62 is Almost Here
R62 media should be shipping on the 25th. The new R62 SmartConsole Tools and MDG are available for download now. Go to the downloads, and select “VPN-1 UTM/Power. You can run the Smartconsole Tools in “demo mode” to see what
SecurePlatform 10Gig and Swizzling
By now you have probably seen Check Point’s exciting announcement regarding 10 Gig capacity on a $5k to $7k platform. I have had lots of readers and customers contact me regarding the specifics on this platform, and have recently found
Check Point Crosses the 10Gig mark
A press announcement yesterday was released from Intel and Check Point. Using the new Xeon “Woodcrest” CPU, SPlat is able to produce throughput numbers of 10Gbps. This is quite impressive. It also scales to 3.2 Gbps throughput for VPN using
Smart Defense RSS Feeds
Did you know that Check Point has an RSS feed for Smart Defense update information? We use them on this site from time to time. This whitepaper shows you how to use Mozilla Thunderbird to automatically download and view the