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:

Quantum Security Gateway and Gaia

IPsec VPN

• Automatically detect configuration changes in AWS, Azure, and GCP public clouds and adjust the VPN settings ensuring connection stability.
• Introducing the Advanced VPN Monitoring tool that shows information on each VPN Tunnel and tracks its health and performance.

Enhanced Tunneling

• Added support for Dead Peer Detection (DPD) with Link Selection.
• Support for Tunnel IP address that is different from the Gateway Main IP, for enhanced interoperability with third-party vendors. Introducing the capability to configure distinct external interfaces for different communities, enabling greater granularity.
• Allow ISP links redundancy with third-party and cloud vendors VPN peers.

Remote Access VPN

• Security Gateway now supports the IKEv2 protocol for connections from Remote Access VPN Clients (E87.70 and higher for Windows OS and E87.80 and higher for macOS).

Mobile Access

• Mobile Access Policy and Capsule Workspace configurations are now available in SmartConsole.
• SAML authentication support for Mobile Access clients that allows seamless integration with third-party Identity Providers.
• New Management API calls for Capsule Workspace configuration.

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.