Check Point SmartCenter

SmartCenter - The smartest choice for unified security management

Your Challenge:

There used to be a time when having a firewall on your perimeter and antivirus software on your desktops was considered cutting-edge security. This is no longer true. With the advent of Internet worms and increasingly sophisticated attacks, the network security picture is more complicated than ever. This new environment, coupled with emerging security regulations and the need to extend access to remote users and business partners, requires a more thorough security implementation. Multiple layers of protection start at the perimeter with firewalls and move deeper into the network to protect sensitive departments, servers, applications, and even user PCs and notebooks. Unfortunately, this kind of multilayered security leads to management complexity. The challenge of keeping security current at multiple sites and on multiple platforms can quickly become an onerous task for the resource-constrained IT department.

Without effective management, the most complex security deployment is only as strong as its weakest link. Security management solutions must enable enterprises to track the effectiveness of their security deployments, provide detailed information for security forensic investigations, and enable consistent security policy enforcement and proactive updates across the organization.

Our Solution:

SmartCenter™, based on Check Point’s unified security architecture, enables enterprises to centrally define perimeter, internal, Web, and endpoint security policies; correlate and prioritize security events; and perform advanced monitoring and reporting—all via a single console. Distribution of security policy and threat defense updates across all gateways becomes easy, ensuring consistent policy enforcement and up-to-date protection against the latest threats. As a result, enterprises are able to protect business-critical assets as well as maximize their security investments.

Product Description: SmartCenter™ provides central management for UTM-1™, VPN-1® Power, VPN-1 UTM, VPN-1 UTM Edge™, Connectra™, InterSpect™, and VPN-1 Power VSX™ security gateways, as well as SecureClient™ applications.

Features and Benefits:

Product features:

• Integrated perimeter, internal, Web, and endpoint security management
• Visualization of security policy
• Automated policy and software distribution
• Access to policies through Web portal or management console
• High availability and scalability

Product benefits:

• Maximizes operational efficiency
• Enables consistent policy enforcement and control over the entire network
• Provides easier demonstration of regulatory compliance
• Maintains the most current, preemptive security

SmartCenter Add ons:

• SmartPortal - Provides web-based access to security policies, device statuses and security alerts without installing dedicated SmartConsole clients.
• SmartUpdate - Provides centralized software and license management for Check Point products. The installation of service packs and addition of new products can be performed from a central GUI. Licensed per gateway. [Do we need this sentence?]
• SmartMap - Allows the visualization and editing of security policies and objects through an automatically generated topological view of the network.
• SmartLSM - Enables large-scale, centralized management of VPN-1 UTM Edge devices
• SmartDirectory - Enables the integration of VPN-1/FireWall-1 gateways with LDAP Directory servers for user data retrieval and management, access control and user authentication.
• Management High Availability - Provides SmartCenter management redundancy and fail-over. Note that this feature enables replication, but does not include an additional SmartCenter license.
• Motif GUI - Management Console for Solaris.
• Customer Log Module - Enables real-time log accumulation, tracking and management on a dedicated log server for VPN-1 Gateways.
• Open Security Extension - Manage packet filters and access lists of third-party routers and security devices. Licensed per router managed. Licensing is additive.
• Check Point Additional 2 Management Sites - Increases the number of sites managed by Check Point SmartCenter UTM. The Management add-ons are incremental, not additive. The SXA-2 increases the number of sites managed by Check Point SmartCenter UTM by two (i.e. increase sites managed from 1 to 3 or 3 to 5.) . Includes SmartPortal
• Check Point Management Add-ons Suite - Upgrades the SmartCenter UTM to SmartCenter Power. Management Add-ons Suite includes SmartUpdate, SmartMap, SmartDirectory, SmartPortal , Management High Availability, SmartLSM and SmartView Monitor. Licensed by the number of sites managed. The Managements Add-ons Suite license must match existing number of sites managed.

Documentation:

Download the Check Point SmartCenter Datasheet (PDF).