Hi, There is a lot improvement on Check Point R70. First of all, it has a new architecture. The Smartdefense is gone, it was replaced with IPS Blade (and not IPS-1!!!). There is Huge difference. IPS Blade has been written from the scratch.
The new architecture is called Software Blades. You have the option to use (and buy) only that blades that applies to you, just checking the checkbox on the Smartcenter object (Smartcenter is not called Smartcenter, it is now Security Management Server instead). The IPS now has more than 2.000 protections just out of the box, and will keep it updated as fast as they can (following the MS Bulletin for example). The new architecture reaches up to 3.3Gbps (I saw!) of througput with 99.5% of all protections enabled, does not matter how many rules there is on your rulebase. The signatures and behavior configuration are more granular, it is possible to do a lot of things, like capture the packets and see exactly what passed on the wire. Now you can create exceptions! Another good thing talking about IPS is that now you have a lot of reporting tools. There is a basic Eventia license just to use to IPS reports. It is cool. The CoreXL is now fully integrated. The performance has been increased by 63% with Default IPS enable and 22x with full IPS enabled. The new architecture uses the CPU core in a much intelligent way, separating the processes for each core. Uhmmm...actually I didn't upgrade any customer but we are planning to. The actual licensing will be unsupported on 2010 which will be need to use the new license mode to purchase the products. The license now depends on the Cores and the Blades used. There is a lot blades available to use, but there are some products which is not blade yet, like Connectra. Bye, - Allan Klaus On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 8:55 AM, a bv <[email protected]> wrote: > Thank you Reinhard, > > waiting for the others answers , i would also ask what you have found > different at the IPS side (Smartdefense to IPS-1). > > Regards > > 2009/5/15, Hammond, Chris (CONT) <[email protected]>: > > For the ones that had issues, what were they? Did they seem to > > revolved around a specific issue? > > > > Thanks > > > > Chris Hammond > > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: Mailing list for discussion of Firewall-1 > > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > > Reinhard Stich > > Sent: Friday, May 15, 2009 5:13 AM > > To: [email protected] > > Subject: Re: [FW-1] R70: to upgrade or not? > > > > hi, > > > > some gui improvements on the smartcenter. > > > > the primary change on the gateway is that smartdefense is replaces by > > IPS-1. > > > > I've upgraded some smartcenters without problems, but I also had > > problems. > > normally you see the problem during or immediately after the upgrade. if > > the upgrade goes fine - it's fine. > > > > br > > reinhard > > > >> Hi list, > >> > >> For the ones who upgraded their fw to R70 , or the ones who learned > >> about the R70 what do you see improvements and advantages upgrading > >> from R65 > >> > >> Regards > >> > >> Scanned by Check Point Total Security Gateway. > >> > >> ================================================= > >> To set vacation, Out-Of-Office, or away messages, send an email to > >> [email protected] > >> in the BODY of the email add: > >> set fw-1-mailinglist nomail > >> ================================================= > >> To unsubscribe from this mailing list, please see the instructions at > >> http://www.checkpoint.com/services/mailing.html > >> ================================================= > >> If you have any questions on how to change your subscription options, > >> email [email protected] > >> ================================================= > >> > > > > > > > > Scanned by Check Point Total Security Gateway. > > > > ================================================= > > To set vacation, Out-Of-Office, or away messages, send an email to > > [email protected] > > in the BODY of the email add: > > set fw-1-mailinglist nomail > > ================================================= > > To unsubscribe from this mailing list, > > please see the instructions at > > http://www.checkpoint.com/services/mailing.html > > ================================================= > > If you have any questions on how to change your subscription options, > > email [email protected] > > ================================================= > > > > > > > > The information contained in this e-mail is confidential and/or > proprietary > > to Capital One and/or its affiliates. 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