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Profile - General Policy

What can I do here?

Use this window to activate Threat Prevention blades, active protection, and activation modes.

Getting Here

Getting Here - Security Policies > Threat Prevention > Policy > Threat Tools > Profiles > Profile > General Policy

Introducing Profiles

Check Point Threat Prevention provides instant protection based on pre-defined Threat Prevention Profiles. You can also configure a custom Threat Prevention profile to give the exact level of protection that the organization needs.

When you install a Threat Prevention policy on the Security Gateways, they immediately begin to enforce IPS protection on network traffic.

A Threat Prevention profile determines which protections are activated, and which Software Blades are enabled for the specified rule or policy. The protections that the profile activates depend on the:

A Threat Prevention profile applies to one or more of the Threat Prevention Software Blades: IPS, Anti-Bot, Anti-Virus, Threat Emulation and Threat Extraction.

A profile is a set of configurations based on:

Without profiles, it would be necessary to configure separate rules for different activation settings and confidence levels. With profiles, you get customization and efficiency.

SmartConsole includes these default Threat Prevention profiles: