Glossary
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Check Point Software Blade on a Security Gateway that blocks botnet behavior and communication to Command and Control (C&C) centers. Acronyms: AB, ABOT.
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Check Point Software Blade on a Security Gateway that provides comprehensive protection for email inspection. Synonym: Anti-Spam & Email Security. Acronyms: AS, ASPAM.
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Check Point Software Blade on a Security Gateway that uses real-time virus signatures and anomaly-based protections from ThreatCloud to detect and block malware at the Security Gateway before users are affected. Acronym: AV.
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Check Point Software Blade on a Security Gateway that allows granular control over specific web-enabled applications by using deep packet inspection. Acronym: APPI.
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Log that contains administrator actions on a Management Server (login and logout, creation or modification of an object, installation of a policy, and so on).
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Security Gateway or Virtual System that works as a Layer 2 bridge device for easy deployment in an existing topology.
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Two or more Security Gateways that work together in a redundant configuration - High Availability, or Load Sharing.
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Security Gateway that is part of a cluster.
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Check Point Software Blade on a Management Server to view and apply the Security Best Practices to the managed Security Gateways. This Software Blade includes a library of Check Point-defined Security Best Practices to use as a baseline for good Security Gateway and Policy configuration.
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Check Point Software Blade on a Security Gateway that provides data visibility and enforcement. Acronym: CTNT.
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Integration of an on-premises Harmony Endpoint Security Server and Security Gateway.
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Performance-enhancing technology for Security Gateways on multi-core processing platforms. Multiple Check Point Firewall instances are running in parallel on multiple CPU cores.
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On a Security Gateway with CoreXL enabled, the Firewall kernel is copied multiple times. Each replicated copy, or firewall instance, runs on one processing CPU core. These firewall instances handle traffic at the same time, and each firewall instance is a complete and independent firewall inspection kernel. Synonym: CoreXL FW Instance.
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Secure Network Distributer. Part of CoreXL that is responsible for: Processing incoming traffic from the network interfaces; Securely accelerating authorized packets (if SecureXL is enabled); Distributing non-accelerated packets between Firewall kernel instances (SND maintains global dispatching table, which maps connections that were assigned to CoreXL Firewall instances). Traffic distribution between CoreXL Firewall instances is statically based on Source IP addresses, Destination IP addresses, and the IP 'Protocol' type. The CoreXL SND does not really "touch" packets. The decision to stick to a particular FWK daemon is done at the first packet of connection on a very high level, before anything else. Depending on the SecureXL settings, and in most of the cases, the SecureXL can be offloading decryption calculations. However, in some other cases, such as with Route-Based VPN, it is done by FWK daemon.
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Check Point Upgrade Service Engine for Gaia Operating System. With CPUSE, you can automatically update Check Point products for the Gaia OS, and the Gaia OS itself.
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User-defined report for a Check Point product, typically based on a predefined report.
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Dynamically Assigned IP (DAIP) Security Gateway is a Security Gateway, on which the IP address of the external interface is assigned dynamically by the ISP.
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Check Point Software Blade on a Security Gateway that detects and prevents the unauthorized transmission of confidential information outside the organization. Acronym: DLP.
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Classification of data in a Check Point Security Policy for the Content Awareness Software Blade.
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Configuration in which the Check Point Security Gateway and the Security Management Server products are installed on different computers.
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Special object type, whose IP address is not known in advance. The Security Gateway resolves the IP address of this object in real time.
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Check Point Software Blade on a Management Server to manage an on-premises Harmony Endpoint Security environment.
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Record of a security or network incident that is based on one or more logs, and on a customizable set of rules that are defined in the Event Policy.
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Procedure that extracts, aggregates, correlates, and analyzes events from the logs.
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Set of rules that define the behavior of SmartEvent.
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The name of the elevated command line shell that gives full system root permissions in the Check Point Gaia operating system.
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Check Point security operating system that combines the strengths of both SecurePlatform and IPSO operating systems.
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The name of the default command line shell in Check Point Gaia operating system. This is a restricted shell (role-based administration controls the number of commands available in the shell).
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Web interface for the Check Point Gaia operating system.
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Software package installed on top of the current software version to fix a wrong or undesired behavior, and to add a new behavior.
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Feature on a Security Gateway that inspects traffic encrypted by the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol for malware or suspicious patterns. Synonym: SSL Inspection. Acronyms: HTTPSI, HTTPSi.
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Internal Certificate Authority. A component on Check Point Management Server that issues certificates for authentication.
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Check Point Software Blade on a Security Gateway that enforces network access and audits data based on network location, the identity of the user, and the identity of the computer. Acronym: IDA.
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Check Point Software Blade on a Management Server to view Identity Logs from the managed Security Gateways with enabled Identity Awareness Software Blade.
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Computers and resources protected by the Firewall and accessed by authenticated users.
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Check Point Software Blade on a Security Gateway that inspects and analyzes packets and data for numerous types of risks (Intrusion Prevention System).
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Check Point Software Blade on a Security Gateway that provides a Site to Site VPN and Remote Access VPN access.
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Collection of hotfixes combined into a single package. Acronyms: JHA, JHF, JHFA.
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An authentication server for Microsoft Windows Active Directory Federation Services (ADFS).
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Dedicated Check Point server that runs Check Point software to store and process logs.
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Check Point Software Blade on a Management Server to view Security Logs from the managed Security Gateways.
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(1) Interface on a Gaia Security Gateway or Cluster member, through which Management Server connects to the Security Gateway or Cluster member. (2) Interface on Gaia computer, through which users connect to Gaia Portal or CLI.
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Check Point Single-Domain Security Management Server or a Multi-Domain Security Management Server.
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Manual configuration of NAT rules by the administrator of the Check Point Management Server.
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Check Point Software Blade on a Security Gateway that provides a Remote Access VPN access for managed and unmanaged clients. Acronym: MAB.
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Dedicated Check Point server that runs Check Point software to store and process logs in a Multi-Domain Security Management environment. The Multi-Domain Log Server consists of Domain Log Servers that store and process logs from Security Gateways that are managed by the corresponding Domain Management Servers. Acronym: MDLS.
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Dedicated Check Point server that runs Check Point software to host virtual Security Management Servers called Domain Management Servers. Synonym: Multi-Domain Security Management Server. Acronym: MDS.
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Logical object that represents different parts of corporate topology - computers, IP addresses, traffic protocols, and so on. Administrators use these objects in Security Policies.
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Check Point Software Blade on a Management Server to manage an on-premises environment with an Access Control and Threat Prevention policies.
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Physical computer manufactured and distributed by a company, other than Check Point.
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Default report included in a Check Point product that you can run right out of the box.
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Check Point Software Blade on a Management Server that manages large-scale deployments of Check Point Security Gateways using configuration profiles. Synonyms: SmartProvisioning, SmartLSM, Large-Scale Management, LSM.
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Check Point Software Blade on a Security Gateway that provides policy-based traffic bandwidth management to prioritize business-critical traffic and guarantee bandwidth and control latency.
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Summary of network activity and Security Policy enforcement that is generated by Check Point products, such as SmartEvent.
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Set of traffic parameters and other conditions in a Rule Base (Security Policy) that cause specified actions to be taken for a communication session.
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All rules configured in a given Security Policy. Synonym: Rulebase.
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Check Point product on a Security Gateway that accelerates IPv4 and IPv6 traffic that passes through a Security Gateway.
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Dedicated Check Point server that runs Check Point software to inspect traffic and enforce Security Policies for connected network resources.
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Dedicated Check Point server that runs Check Point software to manage the objects and policies in a Check Point environment within a single management Domain. Synonym: Single-Domain Security Management Server.
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Collection of rules that control network traffic and enforce organization guidelines for data protection and access to resources with packet inspection.
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Secure Internal Communication. The Check Point proprietary mechanism with which Check Point computers that run Check Point software authenticate each other over SSL, for secure communication. This authentication is based on the certificates issued by the ICA on a Check Point Management Server.
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Check Point GUI application used to manage a Check Point environment - configure Security Policies, configure devices, monitor products and events, install updates, and so on.
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Legacy Check Point GUI client used to create and manage the security settings in versions R77.30 and lower. In versions R80.X and higher is still used to configure specific legacy settings.
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SmartEvent software component on a SmartEvent Server that analyzes logs and detects events.
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Dedicated Check Point server with the enabled SmartEvent Software Blade that hosts the events database.
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Check Point Software Blade on a Management Server (the actual name is "Provisioning") that manages large-scale deployments of Check Point Security Gateways using configuration profiles. Synonyms: Large-Scale Management, SmartLSM, LSM.
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Legacy Check Point GUI client used to manage licenses and contracts in a Check Point environment.
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Specific security solution (module): (1) On a Security Gateway, each Software Blade inspects specific characteristics of the traffic (2) On a Management Server, each Software Blade enables different management capabilities.
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Configuration in which the Security Gateway and the Security Management Server products are installed and configured on the same server.
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SmartView Monitor data or report on status, activity, and resource usage of Check Point products.
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Check Point Software Blade on a Security Gateway that monitors the behavior of files in a sandbox to determine whether or not they are malicious. Acronym: TE.
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Check Point Software Blade on a Security Gateway that removes malicious content from files. Acronym: TEX.
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Network object that represents an external service, such as Microsoft 365, AWS, Geo locations, and more.
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Check Point Software Blade on a Security Gateway that allows granular control over which web sites can be accessed by a given group of users, computers or networks. Acronym: URLF.
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Check Point Software Blade on a Management Server that integrates LDAP and other external user management servers with Check Point products and security solutions.
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Virtual System Extension. Check Point virtual networking solution, hosted on a computer or cluster with virtual abstractions of Check Point Security Gateways and other network devices. These Virtual Devices provide the same functionality as their physical counterparts.
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Physical server that hosts VSX virtual networks, including all Virtual Devices that provide the functionality of physical network devices. It holds at least one Virtual System, which is called VS0.
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Check Point Software Blade on a Security Gateway (R81.20 and higher) that provides real-time phishing prevention based on URLs. Acronym: ZPH.
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