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Technology Stocks : Check Point Software (CHKP) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: blankmind who wrote (2188)	4/29/1998 4:58:00 PM
From: Rene Madsen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7150

Not a chance. This is toy-strength software designed to run on and in an NT environment. You will find all heavy sites avoiding that particular platform for its demonstrated lack of stability, performance and security. As long as Unix is the dominant platform for industrial-strength corporate network the firewall will remain on that. I think the decline these last days of CHKPF is 100% market play. Give it a month or two and you will see it back up where it belongs.

To: blankmind who wrote (2188)	4/29/1998 8:04:00 PM
From: Maverick	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 7150

Check Point's VPN Product Roadmap: Security 1) Security Three key technologies comprise the security component of VPNs: access control to guarantee the security of network connections; authentication to verify the identity of network users and data; and encryption to protect the privacy of data. While most VPNs only address authentication and encryption, a VPN without access control is only protecting the privacy of the data as it travels across the transport mechanism. Access control protects not only the data in transmission, but also the corporation's entire wealth of intellectual property and information, ensuring that users have full access to the applications and information they require, but nothing more. Access control is typically provided by a firewall. Today, Check Point's VPN solution, based on its market-leading Check PointT FireWall-1T enterprise security product suite, includes: Access control with FireWall-1; User and data authentication through RADIUS and numerous strong, two-factor authentication schemes; Support for multiple encryption schemes including manual IPSec, FWZ-1, SKIP and ISAKMP/Oakley; SecuRemoteT client encryption software for secure remote access, extending the VPN to PCs and laptops anywhere in the world; Support for multiple platforms including UNIX and NT servers and internetworking devices from leading hardware vendors. Check Point will offer: Entrust-ReadyT versions of its FireWall-1 VPN server software and SecuRemote client remote access software providing integrated CA/PKI capabilities in Q2 1998; Interoperability with leading CA and authentication vendors such as VeriSign and Security Dynamics through the OPSECT enterprise security framework standard in Q2 1998, enabling customers freedom of choice in deploying CA and authentication solutions; Easy-to-use, easy-to-install PKI software bundled with Check Point's VPN solution, delivering a standalone, shrinkwrapped product in Q3 1998; Management of the PKI solution from Check Point's management GUI, delivering complete enterprise security management including CA/PKI in Q3 1998.