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Check Point Adds VoIP Security |
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Written by Adam Gosling
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Saturday, 28 May 2005 |
With the unveiling of Check Point’s new NGX platform the company can now boast management and security for VoIP networks.
The NGX platform enables VPN-1 Pro and Check Point Express gateways with advanced security features to protect VoIP networks from threats such as call hijacking, call theft, network hacking, Denial of Service (DoS). The platform also enables more confidentiality and availability to voice communications networks, according to the company.
NGX supports SIP, H.323 v3 and v4, MGCP, and SCCP packets, the most popular VoIP protocols.
The support is only one of many advancements to the Check Point arsenal, but it’s an important one. Company representatives explained that the decision to include VoIP support came from customers who told Check Point that if they weren’t already using VoIP, they planned to.
The NGX platform is a major upgrade delivering new features and extended functionality to more than twenty Check Point products in addition to core technologies.
The system provides a unified perimeter and management platform covering the enterprise’s entire security infrastructure. NGX covers Check Point’s product suite and operates at various layers of the network to provide visibility and single-console management to all enforcement points.
The company says the NGX platform is fundamentally different from competitive offerings that require major upgrades to point-product-based solutions that make security infrastructures complex and costly.
"Individual point products like firewalls can certainly help organizations protect themselves, but it is becoming more critical for enterprises to be able to easily manage and receive security information from a suite of security products. The average enterprise customer is plagued with too many devices to manage, a corporate security policy that is difficult to enforce and monitor, and an inability to comprehend or respond to threats in real-time," said IDC’s Chris Christiansen, VP of Security Products in a Check Point company statement http://www.checkpoint.com/ngxRelated news items Newer news items
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