Check Point has announced the launch of its 13500, the first in a new line of 13000 Appliances designed specifically to expand the company’s data centre network security offerings. The 13500 Appliance delivers high security performance with 23.6Gbps of real-life firewall throughput and 5.7Gbps of real-life IPS throughput.
Organisations often face the dilemma of choosing between deploying comprehensive security protections and maximizing the performance of the network. The 13500 Appliance provides data centres with Check Point’s most advanced security protections, without compromising network performance.
In addition to its modern hardware architecture, the 13500 Appliance uses a range of software optimisations and accelerations that maximize hardware utilisation. Check Point’s multi-layer security protections, with four pre-defined security packages including Next Generation Firewall, Threat Prevention, Data Protection and Secure-Web Gateway are supported on the 13500 Appliance. These security packages allow for protection consolidation per appliance, delivering better performance to protect organizations against Advanced Persistent Threats and other modern cyber-attacks.
“As cyber-attacks continue to increase and evolve in sophistication, ensuring data center security has become a top priority for customers all over the world. However data centre security should not be compromised by trade-offs in performance,” said Dorit Dor, vice president of products at Check Point. “Our new 13000 Appliance family solves this challenge for our customers.”
Key features of the Check Point 13500 Appliance include:
· 23.6Gbps Firewall and 5.7Gbps IPS throughput in real-life environments.
· Connection capacity of up to 28 million concurrent connections.
· Fully flexible and high performance hardware configuration.
· An array of optional Network Interface Controllers (NIC), commonly shared with the 4000 and 12000 Appliance families.
· Ease of Data Center platform operation through advanced management solutions.