Check Point adds intrusion-detection to artillery with Sourcefire buy

NETWORK WORLD NEWSLETTER: TIM GREENE ON VPNS
10/11/05
Today's focus: Check Point adds intrusion-detection to
artillery with Sourcefire buy

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* Check Point acquires Sourcefire
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Today's focus: Check Point adds intrusion-detection to
artillery with Sourcefire buy

By Tim Greene

Check Point, which has a lot to do with VPNs, is buying
Sourcefire, which has almost nothing to do with VPNs, but does
make intrusion-detection software based on Snort open source
code.

This is part of a trend started by Check Point two years ago
when it set down a roadmap to expand its network protection into
three areas: Web, perimeter and internal. The company is
offering layered security so if one layer fails other layers
back it up.

In an effort to do so, the company is buying up technology,
notably Zone Labs for its software that enforces remote
computers to meet business security policies.

The company's firewall and VPN software already handled the
perimeter and the company introduced other products to secure
computers connecting to corporate networks, software to
correlate security events and an internal security gateway.

With the $225 million cash acquisition of Sourcefire, Check
Point is overlapping some with what it already has, but clearly
trying to bolster its internal network security and
security-policy enforcement. This sets it at odds with other
vendors that are trying to convince businesses to upgrade their
switches and client software to provide similar protection.

As this network-based approach to security screening and policy
enforcement attracts more attention, business customers will
have to decide whether they want to beef up their network
hardware to do so or overlay software and security-enforcement
devices on their networks.

Check Point is hoping businesses decide the latter, and will
push this choice on its VPN customers that perhaps weren't
thinking about comprehensive network security when they bought
the Check Point gear.

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Tim Greene is a senior editor at Network World, covering virtual
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phone companies. You can reach him at <mailto:tgreene@nww.com>.
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