User's Manual Part 2

Using SmartDefense
222 Check Point Safe@Office User Guide
Using SmartDefense
The Safe@Office appliance includes Check Point SmartDefense Services, based on
Check Point Application Intelligence. SmartDefense provides a combination of
attack safeguards and attack-blocking tools that protect your network in the
following ways:
• Validating compliance to standards
• Validating expected usage of protocols (Protocol Anomaly Detection)
• Limiting application ability to carry malicious data
• Controlling application-layer operations
In addition, SmartDefense aids proper usage of Internet resources, such as FTP,
instant messaging, Peer-to-Peer (P2P) file sharing, file-sharing operations, and File
Transfer Protocol (FTP) uploading, among others.