Introduction to Check Point Next Generation with Application Intelligence

The Check Point next-generation (NG) with application-intelligence (AI) suite of products provides a combination of market-leading tools and applications aimed to meet the basic security needs of the entire enterprise. By using the social venture network (SVN) architecture to view security, not only from the firewall (FW) or stand-alone virtual private network (VPN)-connected User but also from an end-to-end solution perspective, has allowed Check Point to bring together the tools needed to secure the data assets. VPN-1/FW-1 is the cornerstone of the NG AI suite providing network security and VPN capabilities, as well as serving as the foundation for many of the other NG AI products. To complete the VPN capabilities of VPN-1, SecuRemote and SecureClient were included in the NG AI suite. SecuRemote provides a mechanism to authenticate users and encrypt data between the users' desktops and the VPN-1 gateways, while SecureClient adds a personal firewall to the users' computer that can be managed from the policy server integrated into VPN-1. These features enable one to expand the perimeter of the network to encompass and secure all entry points into the network, including Internet-connected VPN users.