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Point Software
Technologies, announced that it was positioned in the Leaders
Quadrant of Gartner's recent 'Magic Quadrant' for Unified Threat
Management (UTM) 1. Check Point is highly recognized by both
customers and analysts for providing simple, all-in-one security
solutions, that provide the highest level of protection to small and
mid-sized businesses and remote/branch offices. Check Point's
comprehensive and flexible UTM-1 and Series 80 Appliance features
Check Point's Software Blade Architecture, giving customers an
extensible security infrastructure that grows with their business.
Check Point unified threat management solutions combine the same
advanced security that enterprises trust, including firewall, IPsec
VPN, intrusion prevention, anti-virus/anti-malware, URL filtering and
anti-spam and e-mail security technologies, providing ease of
deployment at an affordable price. Check Point offers these security
protections with industry-leading performance across a wide range of
models.
“As businesses expand,
so do the security needs. We have seen greater demand for Check Point
UTM solutions in this region as more and more customers looked at
upgrading their security posture,” said Bhaskar Bakthavatsalu,
Regional Director-—India and SAARC, Check Point Software
Technologies. He further added, "Check Point UTM appliances are
all-inclusive, turn-key solutions that include everything you need to
secure your network for customers looking to deploy security
protections at the gateway, on a dedicated device, complete with
centralized management, security updates and our award-winning
customer support.”
According to Gartner,
vendors in the UTM Leaders Quadrant are, at the forefront of making
and selling multifunction firewall products that are built for
midsize business requirements. The requirements necessary for
leadership include a wide range of models to cover midsize business
use cases, support for multiple features, and a management and
reporting capability that's designed for ease of use. Vendors in this
quadrant lead the market in offering new safeguarding features and in
enabling customers to deploy them inexpensively without significantly
affecting the end-user experience of increasing staff burdens.