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Check Point comprehensive management solution, which provides a unified view for policy management, logs & events analysis, and reporting capabilities, is now accessible as a Cloud Service
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Overview
Check Point Smart-1 Cloud is Check Point security management delivered as a cloud service. Smart-1 Cloud provides security policy management of on-premises and IaaS security gateways, security event analytics and reporting from a single user-friendly web-based SmartConsole. Because it's delivered as a Software-as-a-Service (SaaS), ramp-up time changes from hours to minutes when compared with on-premises deployments. Check Point provides the infrastructure and the software so installation, deployment and maintenance times are eliminated - and you get the latest software from Check Point.
With security management delivered as a cloud service, businesses benefit from the elasticity and scalability available in cloud services. Smart-1 Cloud includes ample disk space for you to store your logs in the cloud for as long as you need them. As you grow and add additional managed security gateways, extend your security events log storage space as needed.
When it comes to security management, Check Point has a solution. From zero-touch gateway provisioning to security policy management to threat visibility and analytics to compliance and reporting to large scale multi-domain management to central deployment of software updates to codifying security management using RESTful APIs - Check Point has you covered.
With one console, security teams can manage all aspects of security from policy to threat prevention - across the entire organization - on both physical and virtual environments. Consolidated management means increased operational efficiency.
Highlights
- Automatically stays up-to-date with the latest security management features
- Zero maintenance makes your environments more secure, manageable and compliant
- Manage security anywhere from your web browser or from SmartConsole, and seamlessly expand cloud service capacity to onboard more gateways on-demand
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Dimension | Description | Cost/12 months |
|---|---|---|
Gateway | Smart-1 Cloud to manage gateway with up to to1 GB daily logs and 3 months retention | $1,340.00 |
Gateway w/ SmartEvent | Smart-1 Cloud to manage gateway with up to 3 GB daily logs and 3 months retention, including SmartEvent blade | $1,890.00 |
Gateway w/ SmartEvent & Compliance | Smart-1 Cloud to manage gateway with up to 3 GB daily logs and 3 months retention, including SmartEvent and Compliance blades | $2,030.00 |
5 gateways | Smart-1 Cloud to manage 5 gateways with up to 5 GB daily logs and 3 months retention | $4,710.00 |
5 gateways w/ SmartEvent | Smart-1 Cloud to manage 5 gateways with up to 15 GB daily logs and 3 months retention, including SmartEvent blade | $6,600.00 |
5 gateways w/ SmartEvent & Compliance | Smart-1 Cloud to manage 5 gateways with up to 15 GB daily logs and 3 months retention, including SmartEvent and Compliance blades | $7,080.00 |
5 Spark Gateways | Smart-1 Cloud to manage 5 Spark gateways with up to1 GB daily logs and 3 months retention | $1,340.00 |
5 Spark Gateways w/ SmartEvent | Smart-1 Cloud to manage 5 Spark gateways with up to 3 GB daily logs and 3 months retention, including SmartEvent blade | $1,890.00 |
5 Spart Gateways w/ SmartEvent & Compliance | Smart-1 Cloud to manage 5 Spark gateways with up to 3 GB daily logs and 3 months retention, including SmartEvent and Compliance blades | $2,030.00 |
Logs Exporter | Forwarding 1GB per day of logs to 3rd party | $404.00 |
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