Together Crossbeam and Check Point have been deployed in the most demanding Enterprise and Service Provider environments with the industry’s most scalable and reliable next-generation security solution.
The Crossbeam X-Series platform, along with Check Point, provides organizations with comprehensive security offerings combined with superior network processing for industry-leading consolidation, adaptability, availability and operational efficiency. Combined, the solution offers choice and the ability to customize the security architecture for the specific business environment. The X-Series solution extends the ability of the software blades to secure the business by:
- Simplifying the complex through consolidation of one hundred disparate appliances into a single X-series platform, on average
- Delivering a change-ready solution that adapts to the ever-changing security demands of the business
- Enabling unsurpassed reliability that meets today’s and tomorrow’s ever-increasing uptime demands
- Improving operational efficiency by simplifying the network security infrastructure reducing management and maintenance demands
Crossbeam supports a majority of Check Point virtual and non-virtual Security Gateways, IPS and firewalls to deliver a robust and customized security environment to meet today’s most demanding security requirements. Supported Applications include:
 Firewall |
 Identity Awareness |
 IPSec VPN |
 IPS |
 Application Control |
 URL Filtering |
 Web Security |
 Acceleration & Clustering |
Check Point Security Gateway Software Blades
The Crossbeam X-Series supports the Check Point R75.20 and the New R75.40 bladed software architecture. Available Check Point Software Blades include:
- Firewall – World’s most proven firewall secures more than 200 applications, protocols and services featuring the most adaptive and intelligent inspection technology.
- IPsec VPN – Secure connectivity for offices and end users via sophisticated but easy to manage Site-to-Site VPN and flexible remote access.
- IPS – The highest performing integrated IPS solution with the industry’s best threat coverage
- Application Control – Provides strong application and identity controls by allowing organizations to create policies that identify, block or limit usage of thousands of applications, based on user identity.
- Identity Awareness – Provides granular security policy at a per user, per group and per machine level. It centralizes the management, monitoring and reporting of user actions across the internal network, its perimeter and beyond.
- Web Security – Advanced protection for the entire Web environment featuring the strongest protection against buffer-overflow attacks.
- URL Filtering – Best-of-breed Web filtering covering more than 20 million URLs protects users and enterprises by restricting access to dangerous Web sites.
- Advanced Networking & Clustering – Simplifies network security deployment and management within complex and highly utilized networks, while maximizing network performance and security in multi-Gbps environments
Check Point VPN-1 Power VSX
The Crossbeam X-Series supports Check Point VSX technology. VSX is a virtualized security gateway incorporating firewall, VPN, URL filtering, and intrusion prevention security (IPS) together for the purpose of creating multiple individual security systems. With VSX organizations can create hundreds of individual security systems on a single blade
Supported Applications:
The Crossbeam X-Series also supports legacy Security Gateway and Firewall releases, including:
- Check Point Security Gateway R76
- Check Point Security Gateway R75.40VS
- Check Point Security Gateway R75.40
- Check Point Security Gateway R75.20
- Check Point Security Gateway R75
- Check Point Security Gateway R71.10
- Check Point Security Gateway R70
- Check Point Security Gateway R70-HCC
- Check Point VSX security operations platform VPN-1 Power VSX NGX R68
- Check Point VSX security operations platform VPN-1 Power VSX NGX R67
- Check Point VSX security operations platform VPN-1 Power VSX NGX R65
- Firewall-1 GX5.0
- Firewall-1 GX4.0
