Check Point Firewall Add-ons

FloodGate-1
Quality of Service for VPNs

Traffic congestion on your network can be eliminated with FloodGate-1, a policy-based Quality of Service (QoS) solution for VPNs, private WANs, and Internet links. Flood-Gate 1 optimizes network performance by assigning priority to business-critical applications and end users. Employee productivity remains high, your business is properly supported, and online experiences are positive. FloodGate-1 can be deployed with VPN-1/FireWall-1 or act as a standalone solution.

ClusterXL
Software-based High Availability and Load Sharing

ClusterXL provides high availability and load sharing to keep businesses running. It distributes traffic between clusters of redundant gateways so that the computing capacity of multiple machines may be combined to increase total throughput. If an individual gateway becomes unreachable, all connections are redirected to a designated backup without interruption. Tight integration with Check Point management and enforcement points ensures simple deployment.

SmartDefense Services Overview
Real-time updates and Configuration Advice

SmartDefense Services maintain the most current preemptive security for the Check Point security infrastructure. To help defenses stay continuously ahead of today's constantly evolving threat landscape, SmartDefense Services provide ongoing and real-time updates and configuration advisories for defenses and security policies. Components of SmartDefense Services include:

• Advisories
  Step-by-step instructions on how to activate and configure defenses against emerging threats and vulnerabilities—usually before exploits are created by hackers.
  
• Security Best Practices
  The latest security recommendations from Check Point.
  
• Defense Updates
  Preemptive, ongoing and real-time updates to defenses and security policies.
  
• Program Advisor for Integrity
  A database of malicious and benign applications; automates creation of network access and malware termination policies.
  
• Anti-Virus Information
  Anti-virus updates for VPN-1 UTM.
  
• Anti-Spyware Information
  Anti-spyware updates for Check Point Integrity Anti-Spyware.