Management Portal Software Blade

Overview

With the Management Portal Software Blade, you can extend browser-based management access to outside groups such as technical support staff or auditors, while maintaining centralized control of policy enforcement. Management Portal users can view security policies, the status of all Check Point products and administrator activity as well as edit, create and/or modify internal users, and manage firewall logs.

This extended functionality facilitates team coordination in mitigating attacks or troubleshooting network and security issues. The Management Portal Software Blade allows security administrators to show configuration and log status data to their customers and extend—at their discretion—security policy access to other groups, thereby increasing security visibility within the organization.

Key Benefits

• Aids in managing and troubleshooting security configuration
• Extends access to network policy settings to outside auditors
• Limits security management exposure

Features

• Maintains centralized control
• Provides secure remote access to managers and auditors
• Convenient user interface

Maintains centralized control
The Management Portal Software Blade provides a read-only view of network policy and objects to specified individuals. Full management control is limited to users with access using SmartConsole applications.

Provides secure remote access to managers and auditors
Auditors and managers can connect via a secure SSL connection to view network policy, objects, IPS settings, and gateway status information.

Convenient user interface
With the Management Portal Software Blade’s you can edit, create, and/or modify internal users. Additionally you can view, purge, or switch the active firewall log and audit files. This, along with access to gateway status views, provides a valuable tool for remote troubleshooting.

Specifications

Feature	Details
SSL access	Supported
Configurable ports	Supported
Configurable roles	Specific Management Portal permission
Read write access	Adding users and log management
IP Access Control	Restrict access to specific IP addresses
Supported web browsers	Internet Explorer 6 and 7 Mozilla Firefox 1.5 and 2.0

Support

Threats to the network are constantly evolving and becoming more sophisticated. To maintain continuity and productivity, defenses must advance as quickly to deliver the technology and features that protect the business. Check Point Update service protects against emerging threats with critical hot software fixes, service packs, and major software upgrades.

Benefits

• Ensures continuous security with access to critical hot fixes and service packs
• Maximizes ROI and investment with access to major upgrades and enhancements
• Increases security with the latest applications, features, and technologies