We're happy with the solution overall as it takes away the administrative overhead of operating it and patching it and being able to also sign in through the web browser anywhere as opposed to just having to VPN back to our work and connect to the Management Station in order to use it. I like how they have the clients already available. I didn't have to download them and upload them as I did with the old Management Station.
#CHECKPOINT ENDPOINT PROTECTION SOFTWARE UPGRADE#
The upgrade process was nice with the new Management Station compared to the old one.
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We love that we don't have to upgrade it anymore. That is annoying for people as a lot of people's WiFi's aren't that great and/or they're in some airport or something and might momentarily disconnect. Before, if only the slightest instability of the internet connection disconnected you from VPN, you were then required to put in your RSA token and password, and username. If our internet goes out for 20 minutes and you VPN'd in, it will actually reconnect on its own at the same token, which is amazing. Those are improvements that everyone in the company can appreciate.
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The new clients seem to be faster and more stable. The old Management Station wasn't supporting the newer clients anymore. We have upgraded all the clients since, and we're on one of the later versions of the VPN clients that are supported by the new Management Station. Basically, it's not that much of a difference. It's a Check Point Management Station to a Check Point Management Station in the cloud. Other than that, it's supposed to be the same product that we were using.
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Theirs (AWS) is probably more highly available than ours. There have been improvements in the way our organization functions, as, from an administrative perspective, and being available and taking upgrades out of our court if our users need it, it's going to be out there hanging off of AWS's internet or environment.