NGX
The Only Platform to Offer a Unified Security Architecture

Checkpoint Firewall

The NGX platform delivers new features and extended functionality to over twenty CheckPoint products, delivering stronger protection and smarter management to address the most challenging security problems. Critical new security features offer deeper security, protecting more network and application types from more threats than any other solution. Simplified and powerful management features allow enterprises to manage even the most sophisticated networks more efficiently, with fewer resources and lower TCO.

While there are hundreds of reasons to upgrade your CheckPoint products to NGX versions, we've compiled the top 10 reasons how customers like you are taking advantage of the NGX platform

On May 16, 2005 CheckPoint released it's NGX Platform. To me CheckPoint is by far the best Firewall Software you can buy.
Some of the new features are:
1. Smart Portal: A way to let authorized people view the logs files, Product status and Administrator information.
2. SmartDefense: More protection from MS RPC, DNS Security, Email Security, and P2P (for non-Web traffic).

3. Enhanced Web Application Protection: blockking LDAP injection and directory listing attacks on web servers.

4. Comprehensive VoIP Security

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

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