Check Point 5900 Security Appliance
Small enterprise and branch office security

Overview:

The Check Point 5900 appliance combines the most comprehensive security protections to safeguard your mid-size enterprise. The 5900 is a 1U appliance with two I/O expansion slots for higher port capacity, redundant fans and a redundant power supply option, a 500 GB hard disk, and Lights-Out Management (LOM) for remote management. This powerful security appliance is optimized to deliver real-world threat prevention to secure your critical assets and environments.

Comprehensive Threat Prevention

The rapid growth of malware, growing attacker sophistication and the rise of new unknown zero-day threats require a different approach to keep enterprise networks and data secure. Check Point delivers fully integrated, comprehensive Threat Prevention with award-winning SandBlast™ Threat Emulation and Threat Extraction for complete protection against the most sophisticated threats and zero-day vulnerabilities.

Product Benefits

• Enable the most advanced threat prevention security
• Optimal performance even when inspecting SSL encrypted traffic
• Future-proofed technology safeguards against tomorrow's risks
• Centralized control and LOM improves serviceability
• High performance package optimizes platform performance
• Modular, expandable chassis with flexible I/O options

Product Features

• Simple deployment and management
• Secure remote access to corporate resources from a wide variety of devices
• One network expansion slot to add port density, fiber and fail-open IO card options
• Redundant appliance clustering technologies eliminate a single point of failure

Key Features:

The most advanced threat prevention security

• Comprehensive protections include firewall, IPS, application control, anti-bot, antivirus, URL filtering, and the award-winning sandboxing technology in Check Point SandBlast Zero-Day Protection
• Next Generation Threat Prevention package provides uncompromising protection against known threats
• SandBlast threat prevention provides the most advanced protections against unknown threats, vulnerabilities, and zero-day attacks

Complete protection without compromise

• Hardware and software optimized to deliver full advanced threat prevention security, including inspecting SSL encrypted traffic
• Up to 1,000 Mbps of real-world threat prevention throughput
• Up to 22 Gbps of real-world firewall throughput

Modular, expandable chassis design

• Optional redundant power supplies reduce single points of failure
• Centralized control with Lights-Out-Management (LOM) for enhanced serviceability
• Flexible I/O with a 40 Gigabit Ethernet (GbE) option

The Check Point 5000 appliances offer comprehensive and consolidated security available in two packages:

• Next Generation Threat Prevention (NGTP): prevent sophisticated cyber threats with IPS, application control, antivirus, anti-bot, URL filtering, and email security
• SandBlast Threat Prevention (NGTX): advanced next-generation zero-day threat prevention-NGTP with Threat Emulation and Threat Extraction

The 5000 appliances are built to protect branch offices to midsize enterprises from both known and unknown threats with antivirus, anti-bot, SandBlast Threat Emulation (Sandboxing), and SandBlast Threat Extraction technologies.

As part of the Check Point SandBlast Zero-Day Protection solution, the cloud-based Threat Emulation engine detects malware at the exploit phase, even before hackers can apply evasion techniques attempting to bypass the sandbox. Files are quickly quarantined and inspected, running in a virtual sandbox to discover malicious behavior before it enters your network. This innovative solution combines cloud-based, CPU-level inspection and OS-level sandboxing to prevent infection from the most dangerous exploits and zero-day and targeted attacks.

In addition, SandBlast Threat Extraction removes exploitable content, including active content and embedded objects, reconstructs files to eliminate potential threats, and promptly delivers sanitized content to users to maintain business flow.

Customers with high connection capacity requirements can purchase the affordable High-Performance package. This includes the appliance plus one interface card with transceivers and Lights-Out-Management.

High-speed connectivity is essential to meeting the needs of today’s enterprise networks. That’s why the 5000 appliances are built to provide maximum port density and flexible connectivity in a compact, single rack unit form factor, including support for 4x1GbE, 4x10GbE (5600 and 5800) as well as 2x40GbE (5800).

An optional LOM card provides out-of-band remote management to diagnose, start, restart, and manage the appliance from a remote location. Administrators can also use the LOM web interface to remotely install an OS image from an ISO file.

The Check Point 5000 appliances deliver business continuity and serviceability through optional features such as hot swappable redundant power supplies as well as advanced Lights-Out-Management (LOM) for out-of-band management. In combination, these features ensure a greater degree of business continuity and serviceability for customer networks.

Every Check Point appliance can be managed either locally via its available integrated security management or centrally via unified management. An intuitive, web-based administration interface provides local management of up to two 5000 appliances for high-availability deployments.

Technical Specifications:

5900 Security Appliance

1. Sync 10/100/1000Base-T RJ45 port
2. RJ45/micro USB console port
3. Two network card expansion slots
4. 8x 10/100/1000Base-T RJ45 ports
5. Management 10/100/1000Base-T RJ45 port
6. 2x USB 3.0 ports for ISO installation
7. Lights-Out Management port
8. Graphic LCD display

¹assumes maximum production throughput with real-world traffic blend, a typical rule-base size, NAT and logging enabled and the most secure threat prevention protection
2 performance measured with default/maximum memory

Documentation:

Download the Check Point 5900 Appliance Datasheet (PDF).