The NGX platform delivers hundreds of important new features, improvements, and enhancements to over twenty Check Point products, offering stronger security enforcement, VPN, and management capabilities - addressing your most challenging security problems.

See just some of what's new below and how upgrading your Check Point products to the NGX platform can help you increase security while reducing administration costs. Then learn more about the hundreds of new features and enhancements available for your specific Check Point products and start planning your upgrade today.

Reduces the Cost of Security Management
Unified perimeter, internal and Web security management allows administrators to centrally manage and monitor perimeter, internal and web security policies – all from a single console.

Centralized Management of Connectra Gateways
Connectra web security gateways can now be centrally managed via SmartCenter NGX -- integrating security monitoring, logging, and updating.

Smart Portal
Extends browser-based SmartCenter NGX access to outside groups such as Technical Support staff or auditors.


SmartView Monitor
SmartView Monitor has been enhanced in the NGX release to unify real-time monitoring of security, network, and VPN tunnel and user activity.


SmartObjects
Network objects can be organized into SmartGroups and easily cloned.


Eventia Reporter NGX
Dramatically improved performance, with expanded reporting for Provider-1 for large-scale management.


Secures More Network and Application Types
Expanded intelligent inspection technologies secure more threats than any other solution – including difficult to secure applications such as VoIP.

Expanded SmartDefense
The NGX platform delivers added protections for MS RPC, DNS Security, Email Security, and P2P (for non-Web traffic) to state of the art Application Intelligence technology.


Enhanced Web Application Protection
Web Intelligence can now block LDAP injection and directory listing attacks on web servers and provides administrators with more granular control over HTTP methods.


Comprehensive VoIP Security
The NGX platform delivers the most comprehensive protocol support for VoIP, including: H.323, SIP, MGCP and Cisco SCCP (Skinny) VoIP Denial of Service prevention.


Manages Scalable, Fault-tolerant, Secure VPN Networks
Advanced VPN routing capabilities such as dynamic routing allow enterprises to manage more efficiently with fewer resources.

Simplify VPN deployment in Dynamic Environments
Check Point now supports Dynamic Routing through VPN tunnels – supporting the most popular protocols for both unicast and multicast traffic - as an integral part of SecurePlatform Pro.


Route based VPN
VPN-1 enables route-based VPNs, in which the VPN topology is delegated to network routing decisions. Such flexibility gives enterprises a powerful mechanism for providing connectivity in complex and dynamic networks.


Enhanced VPN Tunnel Management
Permanent Tunnels can be established and monitored in real-time via SmartView Monitor NGX, ensuring VPN tunnels are always active.