Check Point: What's New in R75.20

URL Filtering and Application Control Software Blade

• Integrated policy includes both URL Filtering and Application Control rules for comprehensive Web control and protection
• UserCheck empowers users with real-time alerts while educating them on Web usage policy
• Cloud-based URL Filtering service dynamically updates the Application Database to keep your policies
  up to date.
• Custom application and category definitions for internal or non-recognized applications.
• Download predefined application and category definitions from the Check Point Web site.
• Log enhancements, including new log types and merging logs for many URLs into one session.
• URL Filtering is supported on IPSO and Windows platforms.

DLP Software Blade

• Enhanced email and Web enforcement:
  • Prevents data loss from HTTP traffic, such as Gmail and Facebook.
  • Inspects email messages between Exchange users and groups in an organization.
  • Scans outgoing TLS (SMTPS) encrypted email using the new Exchange agent.
  • DLP HTTP inspection for non-standard ports.
• Improved performance and high availability:
  • Web traffic performance improvements (connection rate, concurrent connections and throughput).
  • DLP-1 2571/9571 appliances have standalone and full high availability modes, in addition to the fail open NIC option.
  • ClusterXL load sharing (detect only).
• 150 new data types (for a total of 450 data types) make it easier to get started.
• Enhanced visibility and administrative tools:
  • Rich DLP status and statistics for SmartDashboard and SmartView Monitor.
  • Administrators can send or discard quarantined email using SmartView Tracker and SmartEvent.
• More ways to prevent administrators from seeing sensitive data:
  • Hide credit card numbers by showing only the last 4 digits in the logs.
  • Granular administrator permissions give more control over who can see DLP data.
• Enhanced template data types:
  • New option to ignore empty templates during scanning.
  • Dynamically load many templates into one data type.
• Custom data types and other enhancements to the CPcode scripting language. 

Identity Awareness Software Blade

• Identity Acquisition (AD Query, Identity Agents and Captive Portal) is supported on IPSO platforms.

Mobile Access and IPsec Software Blades

• Users can have more than one user certificate for VPN authentication.
• Supports VPN authentication from many different devices.

HTTPS inspection

• Inspection of HTTPS/SSL traffic from enterprise networks to external destinations.
• Granular inspection settings for different Software Blades.
• Logging enhancements, including logs for different Software Blades.
• New predefined queries.
• Integrated into relevant event views and cards.
• HTTPS inspection is supported on IPSO and SecurePlatform.

SmartEvent Overview Customization

• You can customize your Overview window by adding, deleting, configuring, moving and resizing panels.
• You can change between different preconfigured overviews for different Software Blades (IPS, DLP, and
  URL Filtering).

SmartDashboard

• Administrators can easily change the SmartDashboard access mode without closing and restarting
  SmartDashboard.
• Administrators currently logged in using the Read Only mode can receive a notification when the
  Read/Write access mode is available.

SmartView Tracker

• User names are hidden by default in SmartView Tracker and SmartEvent.

Management Servers

• User and administrator expiration enhancements.
• Notifications for expired and about to expire Users/Administrators.
• Different procedures for configuring expiration dates.
• New Permissions Profiles for Multi-Domain Security Management.

For more information on R75.20 EA see the R75.20 EA Release Notes and R75.20 EA Known Limitations.

Additional features planned to be included in GA take

•  Various UserCheck usability enhancements.
• Support AV blade for HTTPS inspection
• Ability to bypass HTTPs inspection of well known software update services - update dynamically
• Proxy configuration usability enhancements

Voor meer informatie over Check Point of R75.20 kunt u een mail sturen naar verkoop@ggb.nl of neem direct contact op met onze verkoopafdeling via 040 291 31 31.