Introduction

Check Point offers multiple enterprise-grade VPN clients to fit a wide variety of organizational needs. The Remote Access VPN stand-alone clients provide a simple and secure way for endpoints to connect remotely to corporate resources over the Internet, through a VPN tunnel, and are managed in SmartDashboard.

See Remote Access Clients Comparison for a detailed feature comparison of different E84.70 clients.

What's New

New Feature

  • Support for Macs with M1 chip.

    • Rosetta 2 translator must be installed.

    • Media Encryption blade internally uses FUSE, which is a 3rd party kernel extension. Apple is gradually introducing new alternatives to kernel extensions, but in macOS Big Sur, Apple recognizes FUSE as a supported kernel extension type. On Apple M1, to allow FUSE (just like any other 3rd party kernel extensions), the Security Policy needs to be the "Reduced Security". A Managed Mac purchased via Apple business or school manager programs, does not require the "Reduced Security". See Change Startup Disk Security Settings and Deployment Reference in macOS.

Enhancements

  • This release includes stability, quality and performance fixes.

Upgrading Your Mac OS

macOS Big Sur (11) can only work with E84.30 (and higher) clients. Therefore you must upgrade the Endpoint Security VPN client to one of these versions before you can upgrade the operating system.

To upgrade an Endpoint Security VPN client computer:

  1. Upgrade the Endpoint Security VPN client to E84.70.

  2. Upgrade the operating system to macOS Big Sur (11).

Migrating from SecureClient

Endpoint Security VPN for Mac is not compatible with SecureClient for Mac. You must uninstall SecureClient before you install Endpoint Security VPN.