{"id":1138,"date":"2013-07-19T10:52:34","date_gmt":"2013-07-19T02:52:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/?p=1138"},"modified":"2013-07-19T10:55:59","modified_gmt":"2013-07-19T02:55:59","slug":"new-check-point-appliance-for-data-centers-boasts-fast-security-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/2013\/07\/19\/new-check-point-appliance-for-data-centers-boasts-fast-security-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Check Point appliance boasts fast data center security performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1139\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Checkpoint-13500-appliance.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1139\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1139\" alt=\"Key features of the Check Point 13500 Appliance: * Boosted performance of up to 3,200 SPU. * 23.6 Gbps Firewall and 5.7 IPS throughput in real-life environments. * Connection capacity of up to 28 million concurrent connections. * Fully flexible and high performance hardware configuration. * An array of optional Network Interface Controllers (NIC), commonly shared with the 4000 and 12000 Appliance families. * Ease of Data Center platform operation through advanced management solutions.\" src=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Checkpoint-13500-appliance-300x137.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"137\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Checkpoint-13500-appliance-300x137.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/Checkpoint-13500-appliance-1024x469.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1139\" class=\"wp-caption-text\"><strong>Key features of the Check Point 13500\u00a0<\/strong><br \/>* Boosted performance of up to 3,200 SPU.<br \/>* 23.6 Gbps Firewall and 5.7 IPS throughput in real-life environments.<br \/>* Connection capacity of up to 28 million concurrent connections.<br \/>* An array of optional Network Interface Controllers (NIC), commonly shared with the 4000 and 12000 Appliance families.<br \/>* Ease of Data Center platform operation through advanced management<br \/>solutions.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.checkpoint.com\" target=\"_blank\">Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.<\/a> has launched the 13500, the first in a new line of 13000 security appliances designed specifically to expand the company&#8217;s data center network security offerings.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The company says that the 13500 Appliance delivers fast security performance with 23.6 Gbps of real-life firewall throughput, 5.7 Gbps of real-life IPS throughput and 3,200 SecurityPower unit (SPU) rating.<\/p>\n<p>Organizations often face the dilemma of choosing between deploying comprehensive security protections and maximizing the performance of the network. The 13500 Appliance provides data centers with Check Point&#8217;s most advanced security protections, without compromises in network performance.<\/p>\n<p>The 13500 Appliance leverages a wide spectrum of software optimizations and accelerations that in turn maximize hardware utilization. Check Point&#8217;s multi-layer security protections, with four pre-defined security packages including Next Generation Firewall, Threat Prevention, Data Protection and Secure-Web Gateway are supported on the 13500 Appliance.<\/p>\n<p>These security packages allow for protection consolidation per appliance, delivering better performance to protect organizations against Advanced Persistent Threats and other modern cyber-attacks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;As cyber-attacks continue to increase and evolve in sophistication, ensuring data center security has become a top priority for customers all over the world. However data center security should not be compromised by tradeoffs in performance,&#8221; said Dorit Dor, vice president of products at Check Point Software Technologies. &#8220;Our new 13000 Appliance family solves this challenge for our customers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. has launched the 13500, the first in a new line of 13000 security appliances designed specifically to expand the company&#8217;s data center network security offerings. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1139,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[430,286],"class_list":["post-1138","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-biz-solutions","tag-check-point-software-technologies","tag-it-security"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1138"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1138\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1139"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1138"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1138"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.upgrademag.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1138"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}