This week Pentesec attended Check Point’s London office to get the latest updates regarding their new major software release R82.
Solutions Architect Andrew Hunter, winner of the Check Point Partner Awards Technical Champion 2024, met with Val Loukine, Head of CheckMates technical community to understand the benefits R82 can bring to our customers and help improve their security posture, including:
- AI Copilot – Empowering Check Point administrators with AI assistance for daily tasks
- ElasticXL – New Clustering capabilities to help maximise performance
- VSNext – Improved virtualisation capabilities for you Check Point firewalls
- Innovation and Improvements in R82 such as non-disruptive TLS inspection
- Supported upgrade paths
The release of R82 is a huge opportunity for Check Point customers to replace or upgrade your existing Security Gateways and benefit from the many innovative features and performance enhancements.
With superior networking and routing capabilities, more automation, effortless HTTPS inspection and allowing full dynamic policy layer configuration through API calls directly to the Security Gateway, the R82 operating system looks to be a ground breaking release.
As an Elite Check Point partner, Pentesec can help you to plan ahead and ensure your Check Point estate is ready for the next evolution of threat prevention capabilities.
Reach out to us today and schedule a call with one of our certified Check Point Masters.
