Blades abbreviations

[yura_k]

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 

?

[Tal_Paz-Fridman · Accepted solution]

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

[Lesley]

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

[the_rock · Accepted solution]

There you go.

Andy

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Core Security Blades

• FW – Firewall

• VPN – IPsec VPN

• MOB – Mobile Access

• IA / ID – Identity Awareness

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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

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Web & Mail Security

• APCL – Application Control

• URLF – URL Filtering

• MTA – Mail Transfer Agent (used with Anti-Spam / AV scanning)

• ASPM – Anti-Spam

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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

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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)

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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

[yura_k]

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

[Tal_Paz-Fridman]

Can you direct me to where to find this view?

[yura_k]

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

[the_rock]

Im on it boss 🙂

[the_rock · Accepted solution]

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.

[the_rock]

@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