October 4, 1999

VPN Management

Bandwidth, security features included

By Bob Wallace

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heck Point Software Technologies Ltd. last week began shipping new and enhanced products aimed at providing greater manageability, security, and reliability of virtual private networks.

The products include enhancements to the VPN-1, which add bandwidth-management capabilities and security features, and the VPN SecureServer and Reporting System and Secure Client, new server and client software with firewall capabilities that provide internal and remote access to company resources.

"This will enable us to be far more proactive in managing bandwidth on our VPN by enabling us to see who is using how much bandwidth and throttle back accordingly to ensure no user is shut out," says Russ Ketchum, IS director at the Four Seasons Hotel in Las Vegas, part of a VPN linking some 50 hotels to the chain's Toronto headquarters.

VPN-1 has a failover feature that lets large companies with two of the devices pass VPN sessions from one VPN-1 to a second if the first fails.

Check Point's SecureClient and SecureServer encrypt client-to-server links. They can be used to prevent hackers from accessing shared digital subscriber line and cable modem VPN connections and breaking into remote users' computers.

Pricing for a VPN-1 base system is $3,495. The SecureServer and Secure Client are $895 per server and $50 to $100 per user.

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