topic Re: Blades abbreviations in General Topics

Blades abbreviations

yura_k — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 11:03:38 GMT

Hello everyone!

The article https://support.checkpoint.com/results/sk/sk11054 contains a link to a guide from more than ten years ago.

Could you please tell me which document with information that is current for this year provides the breakdown of all gateway blades:

FW ~~VPN~~ IA ~~ABOT~~ ~~APCL~~ ~~ASPM~~ AV ~~IPS~~ ~~URLF~~ ~~ADNS~~ TE ~~TEX~~ ZP ~~DLP~~ IOTP ~~PLBK~~ ~~SDWN~~

and management server blades:

~~COMP~~ ~~NPM~~ ~~EVNT~~ ~~RPRT~~ ~~PRVS~~ ~~LOGS~~ POAU ~~INSG~~ ~~CPLT~~ ~~AIOP~~ TRID MPLB

Re: Blades abbreviations

Tal_Paz-Fridman — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 10:29:00 GMT

Here is a partial list of the top of my head:

FW Firewall

VPN IPSec VPN

APCL Application Control

URLF URL Filtering

ADNC Advanced Networking and Clustering

DLP Data Loss Prevention

IA Identity Awareness

ABOT Anti-Bot

AV Anti-Virus

IPS IPS which is a common abbreviation for Intrusion Prevention System

TE Threat Emulation

TX / TEX Threat Extractions

ZP Zero Phishing

ASPM Anti-Spam & Email Security

NPM Network Policy Management

LOGS Logs

PRVS Provisioning

EVNT SmartEvent

COMP Compliance

PLBK Playblocks

SDWN SD-WAN

INSG Policy Insights

CPLT Copilot

AIOP AIOps

Re: Blades abbreviations

Lesley — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 16:43:08 GMT

IOTP: IoT Protect

The rest i cannot find. I used https://usercenter.checkpoint.com/uc/pdf/license/license_guide_bak.pdf as reference that contains the ancient stuff

Link in the you shared I cannot open so not sure what you are looking at to get a hint

Re: Blades abbreviations

the_rock — Sat, 27 Sep 2025 17:05:49 GMT

There you go.

Andy

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Core Security Blades

FW – Firewall
VPN – IPsec VPN
MOB – Mobile Access
IA / ID – Identity Awareness

Threat Prevention Blades

IPS – Intrusion Prevention System
AV – Anti-Virus
AB / ABOT – Anti-Bot
TX / TE – Threat Emulation (SandBlast Zero-Day Protection)
TXF / TXL – Threat Extraction (SandBlast Content Disarm & Reconstruction)
TXO – Threat Spectral (part of TE in cloud/hybrid)
AVN – Anti-Virus Network
DLP – Data Loss Prevention

Web & Mail Security

APCL – Application Control
URLF – URL Filtering
MTA – Mail Transfer Agent (used with Anti-Spam / AV scanning)
ASPM – Anti-Spam

Endpoint Security Blades (if enabled via Endpoint Policy Manager)

FDE – Full Disk Encryption
MEPP – Media Encryption & Port Protection
EPS / EP – Endpoint Security
EPM – Endpoint Policy Management
MAB / MEP – Remote Access VPN / Mobile Access for Endpoint

Management & Monitoring

LOG / LOGS – Logging
MON – Monitoring
PRTX / PR – Compliance Blade (Protections / Policy Rulebase compliance)
REP – SmartEvent Correlation / Reporting
LEA – Log Export API (legacy)
CPView – Monitoring tool (not exactly a blade, but often grouped)

Advanced/Optional Blades

TXC – Threat Cloud
SCTP – Secure SCTP Inspection
QOS – Quality of Service (FloodGate-1)
VSX – Virtual System Extension
VTI – VPN Tunnel Interface (not exactly a blade, more a feature)
CloudGuard / CG – Cloud Security (IaaS integrations)
SMTX – SmartTask automation

Re: Blades abbreviations

yura_k — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 12:29:52 GMT

Thank you gentlemen! There are three blades left to find out 🙂

Re: Blades abbreviations

Tal_Paz-Fridman — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 12:34:12 GMT

Can you direct me to where to find this view?

Re: Blades abbreviations

yura_k — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 12:44:12 GMT

When using renewal tool, step 3 - Configure Security Subs, this form will appear when you change the subscriptions composition for a future period:

Re: Blades abbreviations

the_rock — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 13:35:50 GMT

Im on it boss 🙂

Re: Blades abbreviations

the_rock — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 13:43:31 GMT

There you go.

Andy

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1. POAU – Posture Assessment and User Awareness

This blade is part of Check Point's management server capabilities. It likely relates to assessing the security posture of endpoints and providing user awareness features, such as notifications or training prompts based on user behavior or policy violations.

2. TRID – Threat Intelligence and Response Dashboard

This blade is associated with centralized threat intelligence and incident response capabilities. It helps security teams visualize, analyze, and respond to threats using data aggregated from various blades and sources.

3. MPLB – Management Policy Load Balancer

This blade is used in environments with multiple management servers or high availability setups. It helps distribute policy management tasks across servers to improve performance and reliability.

These blades are typically part of Check Point’s management infrastructure, not the gateway blades like Firewall (FW), IPS, or URL Filtering. They enhance visibility, automation, and scalability in enterprise environments.

Re: Blades abbreviations

the_rock — Sun, 28 Sep 2025 13:49:47 GMT

@yura_k If you come up with anything else, let me know. This was really good, I learned about blades I never even knew existed lol

Andy

Re: Blades abbreviations

yura_k — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 07:59:33 GMT

Hi!!

I noticed something interesting 🙂 there are differences in the way how blades in licenses are written: some have all lowercase blades, while others have all uppercase ones, but the word "LICENSE", MAC address are always in uppercase, and the signature key is a mixture:

LICENSE 192.168.1.1 01Jan2027 CPAP-SG520X CPSB-FW CPSM-C-2 CPSB-VPN CPSB-NPM CPSB-LOGS CPSB-IA CPSB-ADNC CPSB-SSLVPN-5 CPSB-IPS-S1 CPSB-ASPM CPSB-URLF CPSB-AV CPSB-APCL-S1 CPSB-ABOT-S

LICENSE 192.168.1.1 never cpap-sg520x cpsb-fw cpsm-c-2 cpsb-vpn cpsb-ia cpsb-sslvpn-5 cpsb-adnc cpsb-abot-l cpsb-apcl cpsb-aspm cpsb-av cpsb-ips cpsb-urlf cpsb-ctnt

What does this mean? 🙂

Re: Blades abbreviations

Chris_Atkinson — Mon, 16 Feb 2026 07:58:53 GMT

Policy Auditor

Infinity Identity

Playblocks

Re: Blades abbreviations

yura_k — Tue, 13 Jan 2026 08:17:47 GMT

Thanks Chris!!