SmartDefense Services Bulletin - October 2006

Check Point SmartDefense Services maintain the most current preemptive security for your Check Point security infrastructure. To help your defenses stay continuously ahead of today̵7;s constantly evolving threat landscape, SmartDefense Services provide:

• Preemptive, ongoing, and real-time updates to defenses and security policies
• Ongoing new protocol and application defenses against emerging threats and attacks
• Step-by-step instructions on how to activate and configure defenses against emerging threats and vulnerabilities – usually before exploits are created by hackers
• Anti-virus updates and alerts for Check Point VPN-1 Express CI
• Anti-spyware updates for Check Point Integrity Anti-Spyware 
• Malicious applications database for automating network access and malware termination policies (Program Advisor Service for Integrity)

NEW Release:  NGX R62
Centrally manage multiple SmartDefense Profiles

The new NGX R62 release supports VPN-1 gateways and SMART management solutions, including VPN-1 Power, VPN-1 UTM, SmartCenter and Provider-1. The most significant enhancement in this release is the enablement of SmartDefense Profiles.

SmartDefense Profiles expand the flexibility and granularity of security defenses, while allowing central control and management of the security infrastructure. By defining multiple SmartDefense Profiles and associating them with Check Point gateways, each gateway can have different defense settings and SmartDefense attributes. SmartDefense Profiles are now supported on VPN-1 Power and VPN-1 UTM gateways. All profiles on all gateways can be centrally managed through the SmartDashboard in SmartCenter or Provider-1.

To learn more about this release, please visit:  http://www.checkpoint.com/downloads/latest/ngx_r62.html