If you have already seen my earlier posts, 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:

Performance and Infrastructure

• Added elephant flow acceleration support for SMB/CIFS service in HyperFlow.
• Quantum Security Gateway multi-core utilization for log sending, improving log output capacity by up to 100%.

Maestro Hyperscale

This release features improvements in managing and monitoring Maestro Hyperscale clusters, which include:

• Support for SNMP Queries on each Security Group Member.
• REST API on Quantum Maestro Orchestrator and ElasticXL Cluster Members:
• New Quantum Maestro Orchestrator API calls for configuration and monitoring of Security Groups, Gateways, Sites, and Ports.
• Support per member Gaia REST APIs for Quantum Maestro and ElasticXL Cluster Members.

VSX

Check Point VSX is enhanced with a new mode, allowing simpler configuration, easier provisioning, and a similar experience to a physical Security Gateway.

The benefits of the new VSX mode are:

• Unified management experience between Check Point physical Security Gateways and Virtual Gateways, including the capability to manage each
• Virtual Gateway from a different Management Server.
  Improves VSX provisioning performance and provisioning experience – creating, modifying, and deleting Virtual Gateways and Virtual Switches in Gaia Portal, Gaia Clish, or with Gaia REST API.
• Management feature and API parity between Virtual Gateways (VGW) and physical Security Gateways.

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