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About Intrusion Prevention Systems detect or prevent attempts to exploit weaknesses in vulnerable systems or applications, protecting you in the race to exploit the latest breaking threat. Check Point IPS protections in our Next Generation Firewall are updated automatically. Whether the vulnerability was released years ago, or a few minutes ago, your organization is protected. Check Point IPS delivers thousands of signature and behavioral preemptive protections. Our acceleration technologies let you safely enable IPS. A low false positive rate saves your staff valuable time. Enable IPS on any Check Point security gateway reducing total cost of ownership. On-demand hyperscale threat prevention performance providing enterprises cloud level expansion and resiliency on premises. Provide users with secure, seamless remote access to corporate networks and resources when traveling or working remotely.	About Smoothwall Firewall features anti-malware protection, HTTPS inspection, anonymous proxy detection & blocking, and intrusion detection & prevention, to provide you with a complete all-in-one protection package. Combines with Smoothwall Filter for a complete all in one protection package. Can be purchased independently or combined to offer a unified threat management solution. Combines Layer 7 application control with perimeter firewall and stateful packet inspection to provide Next-Generation firewall functionality. Smoothwall is an eligible firewall service provider for Category 2 E-Rate funding. Combines with Smoothwall Filter - the only fully content-aware web filter in US education. You can choose which Filter deployment method works for you. Our US-based customer support team are education specialists and available to help whenever you need them.
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Audience Enterprises in need of a solution to detect or prevent attempts to exploit weaknesses in vulnerable systems or applications	Audience IT security teams searching for an advanced Firewall solution
Support Phone Support Supported 24/7 Live Support Not Supported Online Supported	Support Phone Support Supported 24/7 Live Support Not Supported Online Not Supported
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Company Information Check Point Software Founded: 1993 United States www.checkpoint.com/quantum/intrusion-prevention-system-ips/	Company Information Smoothwall Founded: 2001 United Kingdom www.smoothwall.com/education/firewall/
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Categories Intrusion Detection and Prevention Supported Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) Supported	Categories Firewall Supported Next-Generation Firewall (NGFW) Supported Unified Threat Management (UTM) Supported Web Application Firewalls (WAF) Supported
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