Check Point’s IPS-1 Intrusion Prevention
Author: Dave Lewis
In Check Point’s never ending quest to rule the security world, they announced today their IPS solution. Check Point is a world leader in firewall technology. They have recently made a great number of purchases, such as encryption provider PointSec, which I think were brilliant moves on their part.
Today’s announcement heralds the “what-could-have-been” for the failed Sourcefire purchase. I firmly believe that the blocking of this purchase by the Committee on Foreign Investments was political payback for their refusal to open their source code. A sad result.
With this addition to the Check Point arsenal we will see a greater push to the “one vendor to rule them all” approach that was talked about at the RSA Conference 2007 in San Francisco. The solution, a rebranded NFR, extends Check Point into yet another aspect of the security market that they had not really been in prior. I see Check Point as a provider that can deliver a lot of great products. Their firewall is rock solid. Mind you, the SMTP queue on the firewall is for shit. But, by and large this company has itself on a positive path.
Now, if they could just get their licensing models unf*cked.
Tags: Check Point, IPS-1, Intrusion Prevention, IDS, NFR
