Check point adds "application intelligence". (New Products).

Business Communications Review, June, 2003

It's generally accepted that a perimeter firewall represents the minimum standard in enterprise network security. Firewalls have been adding functionality, such as VPN gateway capabilities, and solving new problems, such as Network Address Translation (NAT) traversal. But to keep their product from becoming a commodity, firewall vendors have to keep adding functionality to their wares.

The latest example comes from the market leader, Check Point Software, which recently released Next Generation (NG) With Application Intelligence, a new version that adds higher-layer capabilities to the flagship Firewall-1 and to Smart Defense, a module of Firewall-1. "If the firewall is designed to be the primary enforcement point for a network, then that is the place...

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