If you have already seen my post yesterday, you will know all about the R82 Early Availability Program available here.

Each day over the coming weeks we will discover some of the planned new features on offer in R82 starting today with these:

Quantum Security Gateway and Gaia

Web Security

Added support of HTTP/3 protocol over QUIC transport (UDP) for Network Security, Threat Prevention and Sandboxing.

HTTPS Inspection

This release brings a significant milestone in performance, simplicity, and deployment of HTTPS Inspection. These capabilities allow customers to implement HTTPS Inspection without compromising performance and user experience.

• Full Fail-open mode – A new capability that automatically detects a failure in the HTTPS Inspection process because of client-side issues such as pinned certificates. When detected, the connection is automatically added to an exception list, ensuring zero connectivity issues for end-users.
• Deployment assessment – Allows customers to gradually deploy HTTPS to a portion of the traffic (up to 30%), predicts the performance, and automatically detects and resolves connectivity issues.
• Bypass under load – Optionally bypass HTTPS Inspection in case of high CPU load.
• HTTPS Inspection monitoring – Inspection status overview and detailed advanced HTTPS Inspection statistics.
• Enhanced HTTPS Inspection policy – An improved HTTPS policy with a default recommended inspection policy, separate inbound and outbound rules, and multiple outbound certificate support.

Please note all of these product features are in their early stages and at the discretion of Check Point could be removed from the final release.