User's Manual

About Your Check Point Safe@Office Appliance
Chapter 1: Introduction 1
Chapter 1
Introduction
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 Products............................................................................2
Safe@Office Features and Compatibility...............................................3
Getting to Know Your Safe@Office 100 Series ..................................10
Getting to Know Your Safe@Office 200 Series ..................................13
About This Guide .................................................................................16
Contacting Technical Support ..............................................................17
About Your Check Point Safe@Office
Appliance
The Check Point Safe@Office appliance is an advanced Internet security
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 appliance incorporates the 100 and 200 product families.
The 100 series and 200 series firewall, based on the world-leading Check
Point Embedded NG 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.
You can also connect Safe@Office appliances to security services available
from select service providers, including firewall security updates, Web
filtering, and dynamic DNS. Business users can use the Safe@Office
appliance to securely connect to the office network.