Check Point launches new security tool
Published: 12 May 2003 15:59 BST
Check Point Software Technologies has geared its security software suite to help corporate customers guard against attacks on both networks and applications.
The new version of the suite, Check Point Next Generation with Application Intelligence, is designed to offer stronger protection against application-level attacks and also enhanced application and network configuration and management under a single interface. The tools allow administrators to determine what resources employees and systems can access and to oversee traffic allowed into the network to make sure it doesn't pose a threat to applications or data, the company said on Monday.
The company also said that the product provides increased security and reliability while lowering the cost of maintaining security by centralising management, auditing and reporting.
The product announcement comes on the day that rival security company Symantec unveiled two software packages also aimed at securing corporate networks against application and network attacks.
With these latest releases, the security industry is reinforcing a trend to streamline information technology security and performance.
With the prolonged economic downturn and heightened computer security concerns, corporations have been looking for ways to minimise the amount of time IT administrators need to spend keeping networks and computers up-to-date with patches to thwart new viruses, worms and other threats.
Check Point Next Generation with Application Intelligence will be available on 3 June, the company said. The software carries an annual cost of $1,000 per firewall or $10,000 for up to 100 firewalls. The new Application Intelligence technology will also be included in Check Point's FireWall-1 product and will not require a separate licence, the company said.
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