'Open' security - CheckPoint Software Technologies' Open Platform for Secure Internet Connectivity security architecture - Company Business and Marketing - Brief Article

Software Magazine, Jan, 1997

CheckPoint Software Technologies, Redwood City, Calif., has unveiled a new security architecture, the Open Platform for Secure Internet Connectivity (OPSEC). The platform, says CheckPoint, will allow companies to blend multivendor security products into one secure infrastructure. OPSEC provides an open extensible management framework that integrates and manages all aspects of network security using a combination of published APIs, support for industry standard protocols and a high-level scripting language. Customers will be able to integrate a variety of functions including access control, address translation, authentication, auditing, accounting, encryption and content security.

"You could mix and match security products before, but they have been standalone applications without integration between them," says Jackie Ross, director of marketing at CheckPoint. "Instead of having multiple applications that you have to set up separately, you can use the CheckPoint software interface to define your security policy enterprise-wide. Just like the way you can use an SNMP manager to manage equipment from multiple vendors, companies want that same kind of functionality in the security environment."

CheckPoint plans to incorporate OPSEC into Version 3.0 of its Firewall-1 product, scheduled for release this month.