Here are just some of the reasons to look to upgrade to the R81.20 Titan release from Check Point

Deep Learning Threat Prevention

• AI Deep Learning prevents 5x more DNS attacks in real-time.
• Firewall-based, Zero-Day phishing prevention blocks 4x more Zero-Day phishing attacks (Check Point patented solution).
  Quantum IoT Protect

Discover IoT assets with Quantum Security Gateways.

• Autonomous Zero Trust Profiles allow only the necessary device communication and prevent threats that target IoT assets.
• This helps accelerate event correlation and Threat Hunting delivered through Check Point Detection & Response solutions.

Network Security Management

• New Infinity Cloud Services page in SmartConsole – Quick and easy integration between your on-premises Security Management Server and Infinity Portal Applications. This includes the ability to share Quantum logs with Horizon Events for a unified view of logs across Quantum, CloudGuard, and Harmony products.
• Automated policy enforcement & updates using new Network Feed Objects. DevOps and other teams can manage their own access lists without requiring interaction from Security Admin groups.
• SmartWorkflow – streamlined policy change review, ensures accuracy of Security Policies through customizable built-in policy supervision workflows.

Performance Acceleration for Quantum Security Gateways

• Maestro Auto-Scaling provides dynamic performance scaling for mission-critical apps and large workloads. Automatically shifts firewall resources in and out of Security Groups to support critical applications as throughput and compute requirements change.
• Maestro Fastforward provides a 100G cut-through mode for trusted connections – the highest throughput and lowest latency for specific applications.
• Quantum HyperFlow delivers 3x times higher throughput for elephant flows (very long, high-bandwidth intensive connections). Security Gateway automatically allocates more firewall CPU cores to process elephant flow connections upon detection

Take a look at a “Whats New” picture of R81.20

As always please contact SEP2 for any advice or assistance in upgrading the latest official Recommended Version.