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Checkpoint R80.30

Here is a bulleted list of relevant and highlighted enhancements for R80.30.

This release is initially recommended for customers who are interested in implementing the new features. Check Point
will declare the version as default after a significant adoption. It will then be available as recommended in the Gaia portal
CPUSE table. Until then, Check Point's default version is R80.20. More info is available from sk144293.

R80.30:
R80.30 is benchmarked off of R80.20 Jumbo Take 74 and R80.10 Jumbo Take 103

HTTPS Inspection:

‘Categorize HTTPS sites’ now uses ‘Verified SNI’

SSL Bypass mechanism was replaced in R80.30, "Probe Bypass" or "enhanced SSL inspection" are no longer
relevant and has no effect on behavior.

AES-NI is enabled in R80.30-3.10

MABDA

Supported release for R80.30 sk113410

“custom intelligence feeds”

R80.30 Kernel 3.10 for Gateways

Support for Linux 3.10 kernel and the xfs file system providing support for improved system capabilities and
performance, such as an enlarged system storage, improved I/O operations, better debugging tools and more

Here is More of the “What’s New in R80.30”:

On The Gateway:

Management Data Plane Separation

Allows a Security Gateway to separate the resources and routing for Management and Data networks.
For more information, see sk138672.

SSL Inspection

Server Name Indications (SNI)

Next Generation Bypass - TLS inspection based on Verified Subject Name

Improved TLS implementation for TLS Inspection and categorization

TLS 1.2 support for additional cipher suites:

TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_GCM_SHA384

TLS_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA256

TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256

TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_CHACHA20_POLY1305_SHA256

TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA384

TLS_ECDHE_RSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256

TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_256_CBC_SHA384

TLS_ECDHE_ECDSA_WITH_AES_128_CBC_SHA256

X25519 Elliptic Curve

P-521 Elliptic Curve

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Full ECDSA support

Improved fail open/close mechanism

Improved logging for validations

For the complete list of supported cipher suites, see sk104562

IPsec VPN

Redundancy for Multiple Entry Points configuration using Dead Peer Detection (DPD) with
third party VPN peers

Improved troubleshooting capabilities allows disabling acceleration only for VPN and per
VPN peer. For more information, see sk151114

Advanced Routing

Multihop Ping and Multiple ISPs in Policy-Based Routing

Multihop Ping in Static Routes

BFD in Static Routes

VSX VSID in Netflow

ClusterXL

Support for Cluster Control Protocol (CCP) encryption provides better security for cluster
synchronization networks.

For Security Management:

Central Deployment Tool (CDT)

Starting from this release, CDT version 1.6.1 is embedded in Gaia. For more information,
see sk111158.

SmartConsole extensions

Expand and customize Check Point's SmartConsole for your needs by integrating the tools
you work with into SmartConsole or add third-party tools as panels and views inside
SmartConsole. For more information, see the SmartConsole Extensions Developer Guide.

Endpoint Security

Endpoint and Network compatibility including a new mechanism that inspects files just once,
either by the Security Gateway or by the Endpoint Client, eliminating redundancy.

Get email alerts when an Endpoint Policy Server is out of sync.

CPUSE upgrade for Endpoint Policy Servers.

Full Disk Encryption

The number of preboot users using the same client computer increased to 1000.

All R80.20.M2 new features are integrated into this release:

CloudGuard Controller

Support Data Center Objects for VMware vCenter Tags.

Support Data Center Objects for VMware NSX Universal Security Groups.

CPView

CPView support for Multi-Domain Security Management.

Use SNMP for CPView metrics.

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SmartConsole

Operational Efficiency - Add and remove an object from groups within the object editor.

Logging and Monitoring - Improved, simpler and faster user experience for exporting logs to
Splunk.

Advanced Threat Prevention

Consolidated Threat Prevention dashboard provides full threat visibility across networks,
mobile and endpoints.

Threat Prevention:

SandBlast Threat Extraction for web-downloaded documents

Simple to use, easily enabled for an existing Security Gateway, and does not require any
changes to your configuration on the network or client side

Extends Threat Extraction, Check Point's File Sanitization capabilities, to web-downloaded

documents. Supported file types: Microsoft Word, Excel, PowerPoint and PDF formats

Threat Extraction prevents zero-day and known attacks by proactively removing active
malware, embedded content and other potentially-malicious parts from a file. Promptly
delivers sanitized content to users, maintaining business flow

Allows access to the original file, if it is determined to be safe

Endpoint Security Threat Extraction for web-downloaded documents

Endpoint and Network compatibility includes a new mechanism that inspects files just once,
either by the Security Gateway or the Endpoint client

Advanced Threat Prevention

Advanced forensics details for Threat Prevention logs

Ability to import Cyber Intelligence Feeds to the Security Gateway using custom CSV and
Structured Threat Information Expression (STIX)

FTP protocol inspection with Anti-Virus and SandBlast Threat Emulation

Stability and performance improvements for SandBlast Threat Prevention components

Consolidated Threat Prevention dashboard provides full threat visibility across networks,
mobile devices and endpoints

Enhanced visibility to "Malware DNA" analysis for Threat Emulation

Improved understanding for security personnel of how malware analysis is performed and
the reasons a file is flagged as malicious. The Threat Detail report now includes the Malware
DNA - a deeper exploration into features determined to be similar to those in known malware
families. The enhanced analysis of similarities includes:

Behavior

Code structure

File similarities

Patterns of attempted connections to malicious websites and C&C servers

Complete facelift for the Threat Emulation Findings Summary Report

Redesigned Threat Emulation findings report for a more modern look

The report also includes a dynamic map view of malware family appearances around the
globe over time

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For more details, as well as information about the availability, refer to sk120357

Threat Prevention APIs enhancements

Added ability to send files via APIs to be scanned by Anti-Virus on local Check Point
appliances. This capability is supported for both Security Gateways and dedicated Threat
Emulation appliances

For more information, refer to the Threat Prevention API Reference Guide.

New and Improved Machine-Learning Engines for Threat Emulation

Added new machine-learning engines focused on malware detection inside document files to
achieve an optimum catch rate

Enhanced Control of MTA actions and Threat Emulation behavior in case of failure

Added ability for administrators to granularly configure Threat Emulation policy and decide
whether to allow a file transfer based on the error type

When configuring the MTA gateway to block emails if a scan fails (fail-block), administrators
can granularly configure MTA to deliver emails to the users for specific failure types

For more details and configuration instructions, refer to sk132492 and sk145552

Enhanced Anti-Virus support

Anti-Virus protections are now applied by default on files received through the MTA gateway.
These protections include signatures, hashes and link reputation checks for attachments, link
reputation checks for the email body, and granular enforcement based on the file type

Enhanced Import of additional IOCs

Gateways configured as MTA can now be enriched with custom Anti-Virus IOCs from
external sources.

IOCs can be manually imported via the User Interface

Links to external feeds for automatic ongoing IOC importing can be added via a configuration
change

For more information and setup instructions, refer to sk132193 and R80.30 Threat
Prevention Administration Guide

Enhanced support for non-default SMTP ports

Added the ability to configure the MTA gateway to send and receive emails on non-default
SMTP ports (ports other than 25). For more details and configuration instructions, see
sk142932.

Enhanced management of the MTA

Failure to inspect the attachments or links inside an email is now immediately treated as a
failure.

Previously, inspection failure resulted in adding the email to the MTA queue and retrying the
action. As the majority of inspection retries fail as well, this change reduces the size of the
queue and improves MTA performance

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