Sourcefire and Nokia: An Innovative Approach To Meeting New Demands and Fighting Threats

It's not an easy metric for IT leaders to measure up to. Performance needs are spiking with the proliferation of technologies such as VoIP and multimedia applications, and the distribution of servers throughout the enterprise to branch offices that must be able to communicate with each other. At the same time, security threats have become more insidious, evidenced by the trend of malicious activity disguising itself as innocent applications.

Check Point and Nokia-strategic partners who, for nearly a decade, have together delivered innovative Internet security solutions-are making sure IT leaders don't have to compromise on security in order to deliver to their organization's intense information availability demands. The new Nokia IP 2450 Security Platform for firewall/VPN, with Check Point's CoreXL software, takes advantage of the latest Intel open-platform quad-core CPUs and acceleration technology to maximize the power inherent in the processors, and the protection that comes with being able to do deeper inspections of more sizes and types of packets faster than ever before.

Nokia and Check Point work closely together to integrate their core strengths into the Nokia IP2450 Security Platform, as well as other joint products aimed at protecting the enterprise. As Check Point continues to enhance its CoreXLsoftware, for example, Nokia has improved platform performance with its accelerated data path technology. A dedicated research and development team at Check Point is charged with making sure that Nokia customers continue to very quickly get its most advanced security technology, such as the SmartCenter management infrastructure or plug-ins that add functionality to that platform. The two vendors also perform joint quality assurance testing to make sure that everything meets both companies' satisfaction before it goes out to corporate sites.