Check Point Delivers New High Performance Power-1 Appliances to Secure Global Enterprises

Check Point® Software Technologies, the worldwide leader in securing the Internet, today announced the launch of Check Point Power-1™, a new line of Internet security appliances offering high-performance sites a simple, robust, and easy to manage security solution with the best price/performance ratio available. Power-1 appliances combine firewall, IPSec, virtual private network (VPN) and intrusion prevention with advanced acceleration technologies, delivering a high-performance security platform for multi-Gbps environments.

"We are committed to providing our customers high performing security solutions," said Dorit Dor, vice president of products at Check Point. "Power-1 provides customers the flexibility to combat malicious applications and threats while maintaining predictably high speeds. With the new appliances, tight security does not come at the expense of network performance."

Record price to performance ratio
Power-1 appliances provides performance up to 14 Gbps firewall throughput, delivering the most cost-efficient firewall for high performance environments – a price/performance ratio under $4 per Mbps. With a 6.1 Gbps intrusion prevention speed, customers also gain the ability to stop application layer threats at industry-leading speeds. Consequently, organizations facing application security threats, such as worms or buffer overflows, will be able to stop them while maintaining high performance for business critical applications. Since advanced acceleration technologies are built into the software, customers can also receive performance improvements without upgrading hardware.

"With the introduction of Power-1, customers get great price/performance ratio in a high-performance appliance based on Check Point's award-winning security software," said Tim Richardson, network and security solutions product manager at Akibia. "Power-1 adds to the wide variety of appliance options provided by Check Point Open Choice and enables customers to find an appliance solution that matches their exact needs, maximizing the value of their security investment."

Streamlined deployment and upkeep
As a security solution from a single vendor, Power-1 provides a simpler and quicker deployment experience for customers. New security protections and product updates can be easily installed as needed so businesses get the latest security deployed quickly.

Single console, seamless deployment
Multiple Power-1 appliances can be centrally managed with other Check Point security gateways through a single console, thus simplifying network security management and reducing administrative costs. The console simplifies the management of complex architectures found in high performance environments. In addition, it provides a single interface for managing firewall, VPN, and intrusion prevention as well as analytical and monitoring capabilities.

As sites increase in complexity or in size, their environments will require security appliances with more ports and higher performance. The two new Check Point Power-1 appliance models provide the ability to meet all levels of complexity. They include the:

• Power-1 5070, combining accelerated performance with attractive price, features 9 Gbps of firewall throughput, up to 14 ports, a removable hard-drive, and dual hot-swappable power supply
• Power-1 9070, the flagship model, features 14 Gbps of firewall throughput, up to 18 ports, dual removable hard-drives and dual hot-swappable power-supply

Both Power-1 models include the following security components:

• Industry-leading firewall, VPN and integrated intrusion prevention
• High availability, load balancing, and dynamic routing for data center reliability levels
• Security acceleration to block application-layer threats—such as worms, buffer overflows and malware—at multi-Gbps speeds
• SmartDefense® services available through subscription to protect against emerging threats
• Web application firewall and SSL VPN can be added through licensing
• Optional UTM capabilities, including antivirus and anti-spyware, Web filtering, Web application security, and messaging security

Check Point Power-1 expands the Open Choice available for Check Point customers. Check Point customers can run the full scale of Check Point solutions from sub-$500 home-office devices all the way to 40Gbps performance models using a single architecture, a single management console and run on hardware from variety of vendors including Check Point, Nokia, Crossbeam, IBM, Sun and any other open server vendors.
In a related press release, Check Point also announced three new UTM-1® appliances for enterprise sites of all sizes. UTM-1 appliances combine Check Point's leading application and network-layer firewall, site-to-site and remote access VPN, gateway antivirus and anti-spyware, intrusion prevention, Web filtering and comprehensive messaging security. Together, these two announcements illustrate the company's breadth of appliance-based security solutions tailored to fit the needs of all-sized businesses.

Concluded Dor, "Our Power-1 appliances protect customers' networks at unprecedented performance levels with the latest award-wining Check Point security technology."