Security needs to constantly evolve, as organizations must protect against the latest threats while meeting changing business needs. Check Point’s newest security software for Quantum Firewalls and Cloud Guard Network is designed for the future: to deliver protection against unknown threats and enable nimble, adaptive security that can rapidly meet operational needs.

As security becomes increasingly complicated due to hybrid environments, operational agility is more important than ever. R82 is designed to simplify management and scale security across segmented security postures. These operational advancements are combined with powerful new threat prevention engines for unprecedented security.

R82 introduces over 50 new capabilities. Read on to find out the four major ways that upgrading to R82 will future proof your security posture with revolutionary simplicity and agility.

AI-Powered Threat Prevention

R82 introduces powerful new AI engines to block 99.8% of zero-day attacks, even in encrypted traffic.

Cyber threats are more evasive than ever. Check Point Research shows that 90% of phishing sites last 24 hours or less, making quick identification critical to protection. The most sophisticated innovations are required to protect organizations.

Check Point’s new AI security engines  represent a groundbreaking shift in how data is utilized, emphasizing a more robust  multi-dimensional approach. By analyzing data from multiple sources and uncovering hidden relationships over time, these engines obtain a deep understanding of global traffic patterns, enabling Check Point to block zero-day campaigns.

The new threat prevention engines don’t just block threats, they also help make the most of your security policies. Advanced URL Categorization leverages AI natural language processing (NLP) to accurately categorize 98% of URLs and block previously uncategorized dangerous or inappropriate web sites. 

Data Center Agility

Organizations need security that keeps up with frequent policy changes and high velocity operations. With R82, application development is significantly sped up with streamlined provisioning and self-service DevOps automation, reducing delays caused by tickets.

8X faster system virtualization: Now organizations can rapidly provision new technology stacks within a fully secure, contained environment by spinning up firewall virtual systems in seconds. R82 further simplifies operations with a consolidated UI and APIs for virtual and physical firewalls.

Manage virtual systems and physical firewalls in a single, intuitive interface

Dynamic Policy Layer for DevOps: A dedicated, API-controlled, dynamic policy layer enables teams to automate application policy changes directly into the firewall. Policy management now uses APIs to apply instant updates in real time.

DevOps can implement automation via a dedicated policy layer

Operational Simplicity & Scale

Businesses can now handle growth and unpredictable network traffic events, with faster, more flexible deployment, unified management, and adaptive HTTPS inspection for effortless security.

Faster provisioning for Maestro firewall clusters: It is dramatically easier to scale network security with Check Point. With the R82 software release, Maestro has a first-time wizard for initial set-up and a user-friendly web UI with interactive graphical presentation, using easy drag-and-drop configuration to assign, monitor, and edit ports in an intuitive way. Maestro also has new REST APIs, and support for SNMP Queries on each Security Group Member. Users can now manage members and apply changes across an entire cluster system in a single environment for fast operations with 40% fewer steps required.

Built-in software-based load sharing and resilience: Check Point’s patented technology is now available as a powerful software-based solution to give users the flexibility to choose the cluster design that best meets their requirements. Now load sharing and dual site failover are simpler than ever with a simple, one-time configuration and automatic cloning to seamlessly add cluster members.

Adaptive and Effortless TLS Inspection for Comprehensive Security Coverage

95% of network traffic is encrypted and is the largest source of hidden threats. However, many organizations do not fully inspect encrypted web traffic due to complexities and challenges to internal user experience.

R82 mitigates these common concerns with adaptive, granular  TLS inspection for maximum security coverage while allowing for selective auto-bypass based on customer settings.  This gives network security teams the flexibility to quickly and easily prioritize optimal security, connections, and CPU utilization.

View encrypted traffic statistics at a glance

HTTP/3 protocol over QUIC transport: The first security platform to fully inspect, sandbox, and secure HTTP/3 encrypted traffic for accelerated web inspection and faster browsing. While many websites support this protocol for quicker load times, without firewall support, standard TLS decryption is required, causing users to default to the slower and less secure HTTP/2 standard.

Quantum-Ready Cryptography

Hackers are recording enterprises’ VPN encrypted traffic today with plans to decrypt it with quantum computers. R82 prevents impending quantum computing-based decryption/hacking of today’s VPN traffic by implementing the new NIST-approved PQC (Post-Quantum Computing) encryption algorithm, Kyber (ML-KEM).​

Upgrade to R82

R82 contains all these capabilities and more so your organization can easily adapt to meet future growth needs or unexpected challenges. Schedule a demo to see how upgrading can take your network security into the future.

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