The industry's first flexible, extensible security architecture
The Check Point Software Blade Architecture supports a complete and increasing selection of Software Blades, each delivering a modular security gateway or security management function. Because Software Blades are modular and moveable, Software Blades enable users to efficiently and quickly tailor Security Gateway and Management functionality to specific and changing security needs. New blades are quickly licensed as needed without the addition of new hardware.
What is a software blade?
A software blade is a logical security building block that is independent, modular and centrally managed. Software Blades can be quickly enabled and configured into a solution based on specific business needs. And as needs evolve, additional blades can be quickly activated to extend security to an existing configuration within the same hardware foundation.
Key Benefits
Flexibility – Provides the right level of protection at the right level of investment
Manageability – Enables fast deployment of security services. Increases productivity through centralized blade management.
Total Security – Provides the right level of security, at all enforcement points, and at all layers of the network
Lower TCO - Protects investment through consolidation and use of existing hardware infrastructure
Guaranteed performance – Enables provisioning of resources that guarantee service levels
How are Check Point Software Blades deployed?
Software Blades can be deployed on Check Point UTM-1 and Power-1 appliances, open servers and within virtualized environments. New blades can be added simply enabling their functionality in software; no additional hardware, firmware or drivers are necessary. This enables organizations to deploy security dynamically, as needed, with lower total cost of deployment.
Security Gateway Systems
To help ease configuration, Check Point has developed several pre-defined bundles composed of a container and software blades for the following configurations:
- Small offices and branches
- Medium sized companies and offices
- High performance offices of any size
- Large enterprises, campuses and data centers with demanding performance needs
