User Manual Part 1
Table Of Contents
- Check Point Safe@Office User Guide 8.0
- Copyright & Trademarks
- Contents
- About This Guide
- Introduction
- About Your Check Point Safe@Office Appliance
- Safe@Office 500 Product Family
- Product Features
- Wireless Features
- Optional Security Services
- Software Requirements
- Getting to Know Your Safe@Office 500 Appliance
- Getting to Know Your Safe@Office 500W Appliance
- Getting to Know Your Safe@Office 500 ADSL Appliance
- Getting to Know Your Safe@Office 500W ADSL Appliance
- Contacting Technical Support
- Safe@Office Security
- Installing and Setting Up Safe@Office
- Getting Started
- Configuring the Internet Connection
- Managing Your Network
- Using Bridges
- Configuring High Availability
- Using Traffic Shaper
- Working with Wireless Networks
- Viewing Reports
- Viewing Logs
- Setting Your Security Policy
About Your Check Point Safe@Office Appliance
Chapter 1: Introduction 1
Chapter 1
This chapter introduces the Check Point Safe@Office appliance and this guide.
This chapter includes the following topics:
About Your Check Point Safe@Office Appliance.......................................1
Safe@Office 500 Product Fam
ily ................................................................2
Product Features...........................................................................................2
Wireless Features
..........................................................................................8
Optional Sec
urity Services ...........................................................................9
Soft
ware Requirements ................................................................................9
Getting to Know Your Safe@
O
ffice 500 Appliance..................................10
Getting to Know Your Safe@Office 500W Appliance..............................15
Getting t
o Know Your Safe@Office 500 ADSL Appliance.......................20
Getting to Know Your Safe@Office 500W
ADSL Appliance
...................25
Contacting Technical Su
pport ....................................................................30
About Your Check Point Safe@Office Appliance
The Check Point Safe@Office 500 appliance is a unified threat management (UTM)
appliance that enables secure high-speed Internet access from the office. Developed and
supported by SofaWare Technologies, an affiliate of Check Point Software Technologies,
the worldwide leader in securing the Internet, the Safe@Office 500 product family
includes both wired and wireless models, with and without an integrated ADSL modem.
The Safe@Office firewall, based on the world-leading Check Point Embedded NGX
Stateful Inspection technology, inspects and filters all incoming and outgoing traffic,
blocking all unauthorized traffic.
The Safe@Office appliance also allows sharing your Internet connection among several
PCs or other network devices, enabling advanced office networking and saving the cost of
purchasing static IP addresses.
With the Safe@Office appliance, you can subscribe to additional security services
available from select service providers, including firewall security and software updates,
Antivirus, Web Filtering, reporting, VPN management, and Dynamic DNS. By supporting
Introduction