User's Manual Part 1

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 Family ................................................................2
Safe@Office Features and Compatibility.....................................................2
Getting to Know Your Safe@Office 500 Appliance....................................9
Getting to Know Your Safe@Office 500W Appliance..............................12
Contacting Technical Support ....................................................................15
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 wireless models.
Safe@Office 500 ADSL includes 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 integrated VPN capabilities, the Safe@Office appliance
Introduction