CheckPoint R80.10 ReleaseNotes

29 March 2018
R80.10
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Revision History
Date Description
29 March 2018 Updated support for vSEC IaaS in Supported Platforms (on page 17)
07 March 2018 Improved formatting and document layout
18 January 2018 R80.10 image replaced, see sk120981

https://supportcontent.checkpoint.com/solutions?id=sk120981
19 October 2017 Updated Behavior Changes (on page 11)
27 September 2017 Updated Check Point Appliances (on page 15)
19 July 2017 Added support for UTM-1 Edge N in Backward Compatibility Gateways
("Supported Backward Compatibility Gateways" on page 18)
02 July 2017 Added Hyper-V support in Supported Platforms (on page 17)
Added Smart-1 405 and 410 support in Check Point Appliances (on page
15)
Date Description
01 June 2017 Updated requirements for Security Management Server / Standalone in
Open Server Hardware Requirements ("Open Server Hardware
Recommendations" on page 16)
16 May 2017 First release of this document

Contents
Important Information................................................................................................... 3
Introduction ................................................................................................................... 6
Important Notes ........................................................................................................ 6
Important Links ......................................................................................................... 7
What's New ............................................................................................................... 8
Security Policy New Architecture ................................................................................... 8
Significant Improvements and New Features ................................................................. 9
Management Enhancements .........................................................................................10
Behavior Changes ................................................................................................... 11
Licensing ................................................................................................................. 12
Supported Upgrade Paths ........................................................................................... 13
Required Disk Space ................................................................................................... 14
Check Point Appliances ............................................................................................... 15
Open Server Hardware Recommendations ................................................................. 16
Maximum Supported Physical Memory................................................................... 16
Supported Platforms ............................................................................................... 17
Build Numbers ........................................................................................................ 17
Supported Backward Compatibility Gateways ............................................................ 18
Maximum Supported Number of Interfaces on Security Gateway .............................. 18
Maximum Supported Number of Cluster Members .................................................... 19
Hardware Health Monitoring....................................................................................... 19
Logging Requirements ................................................................................................ 20
Logs Storing ............................................................................................................ 20
SmartEvent Requirements ...................................................................................... 20
SmartConsole Requirements ...................................................................................... 21
Hardware Requirements ......................................................................................... 21
Software Requirements .......................................................................................... 21
Gaia Portal Requirements ........................................................................................... 21
Threat Emulation Requirements ................................................................................. 22
Mobile Access Requirements ...................................................................................... 22
Identity Awareness Requirements .............................................................................. 23
Endpoint Security Requirements ................................................................................ 24
Check Point Clients and Agents Support ..................................................................... 25
Multiple Login Option Support ................................................................................ 25
Clients and Agents Support by Windows Platform .................................................. 25
Clients and Agents Support by Mac Platform.......................................................... 27
DLP Exchange Agent Support ................................................................................. 27
Introduction
Introduction
Thank you for installing Check Point R80.10 - The cyber security platform of the future. This
release integrates R80 management features with new Security Gateway features and
enhancements.
Important Notes
Effective 18 January 2018:
The R80.10 image for installation and upgrade has been replaced.
The new R80.10 image includes:
• Reduced running time for the First Time Configuration Wizard during Security Management
Server installation.
• Replacement of Kaspersky Anti-Virus components in accordance with security orders from the
United States Department of Homeland Security, refer to www.checkpoint.com/kaspersky
www.checkpoint.com/kaspersky and sk118539
• Integrated support for Smart-1 405 and 410 appliances, refer to sk117578
• Upgrade stability enhancements:
• Upgrade of secondary R80 Security Management Server
• Upgrade of Multi-Domain Server
• Upgrade of R77.x Multi-Domain Log Server using NGX license
• Import of R80.10 Multi-Domain Server using mds_import
• Upgrade option from R77.30 with vSEC Controller to R80.10 is available via CPUSE
• Resolved vSEC controller for AWS connectivity issues due to CA change, refer to sk121885
• Gaia Fast Deployment Tool, refer to sk120193
• Integrated R80.10 Jumbo Hotfix Accumulator Take 42, refer to sk116380
Release Notes R80.10 | 6

Introduction
Important Links
For more about R80.10, and to download the software, see the R80.10 Home Page: sk111841
• R80.10 image replacement, for more information see sk120981
• Before you upgrade, see the latest upgrade tools on the Home Page
• Read the Known Limitations: sk110519
• See issues resolved in this release: sk110518
Visit the Check Point CheckMates Community https://community.checkpoint.com/
• Start discussions
• Get answers from experts
• Join the API community to get code samples and share yours
Visit http://www.checkpoint.com/architecture/infinity/ to learn more about Infinity R80.10.

Introduction
What's New
R80.10 creates a breakthrough in Check Point Security Gateway, matching the R80 security
management innovations.
R80.10 is part of Check Point Infinity, a consolidated cyber security architecture that spans
networks, cloud, and mobile. It provides the highest level of threat prevention against both known
and unknown targeted attacks to keep you protected now and in the future.
Security Policy New Architecture

• Policy Layers and Sub-Policies - Enable flexible control over the security policy behavior.
• Build a rule base with layers, each with a set of the security rules. Layers are inspected in
the order in which they are defined, giving control over the rule base flow and precedence
of security functionality. If an "Accept" action is done in a layer, inspection continues in the
next layer.
• Sub-Policies (Inline Layers) are sets of rules that you attach to specific rules. If the rule is
matched, inspection continues in the sub-policy attached to the rule. If the rule is not
matched, the sub-policy is skipped.
For example, a sub policy can manage a network segment or branch office.
• Policy Layers and Sub-Policies can be managed by specific administrators, according to
their permission profile, allowing easy responsibility delegation in the team.
• Unified Security Policies:
• Access Control policy unifies the Firewall, Application Control & URL Filtering, Content
Awareness, and Mobile Access Software Blade policies.
• Threat Prevention policy unifies the IPS, Anti-Virus, Anti-Bot, Threat Extraction, and Threat
Emulation Software Blade policies.
Access Control Policy

• New Content Awareness Software Blade adds visibility and control over data transfers in the
network traffic, using data types based on content, file types, and direction.
• Application Control enhancements:
• Added Recommended Services to Applications for easier configuration of the unified policy.
• Applications matched on Recommended Services, customized set of services, or Any
service.
• New Protocol Signature added to Service object, to enhance policy matching security and
granularity.
• Mobile Access policy rules can be defined in the main, unified Access Control Policy:
• Unified rules can define access from different client types to the same resources.
• Explicit rules can block specified Mobile Access traffic.
• Ability to define access to resources from specified client types only.
• Security Zones: Group interfaces of gateways into Security Zones for new Source and
Destination definitions.
• Fully Qualified Domain Names (FQDN): Additional mode for Domain objects, to match fully
qualified domain names with forward DNS lookup.
• Acceleration of Domain Objects, Dynamic Objects, and Time Objects.
Introduction
• New tracking options in Unified Rule Base.

• Improvement of policy installation time duration.
Threat Prevention Policy

• Multiple profiles for each Security Gateway, to enforce granular Threat Prevention policies.
• Faster Threat Prevention policy installation.
• IPS is integrated into the Threat Prevention policy Rule Base and policy installation.
• Threat Prevention profiles support IPS protection activation based on property tags.
Significant Improvements and New Features

• The new Check Point Labs lets you experience new features and send feedback to Check
Point. The first Check Point Labs feature lets you see information on Session changes before
you publish.
• VPN and Mobile Access Enhancements
• VPN multicore performance with CoreXL multicore scalability for VPN traffic inspected by
Next Generation Firewall, Next Generation Threat Prevention, and Next Generation Threat
Extraction Software Blades.
• NAT-T support for Site-to-Site VPN.
• TLS 1.2 support for Mobile Access and portals.
• Multiple login options with multi-factor authentication schemes for users of different
clients and portals. See Multiple Login Option Support (on page 25).
• A Mobile Access transparent Reverse Proxy, allowing external users to access internal
resources, without the Mobile Access portal.
• Identity Awareness Enhancements
• Up to 200,000 Identity sessions per gateway.
• Gateway REST API to manage identities from 3rd party or customized system.
• Identity Collector - New agent that collects identity information from different sources (AD
and ISE), for large environment scalability.
• New RADIUS Accounting attribute parsing and IPv6 support.
• Enhanced handling of nested user groups for AD LDAP using LDAPv3.
• Enforce remote access client type in access role.
• Detect users located behind HTTP proxy using X-Forward-For header granularity per
Access Control Policy Layer.
• Threat Prevention Enhancements
• Threat Emulation MTA (Mail Transfer Agent) support in VSX. You can run MTA for each VS
instance.
• Threat Extraction support for VSX Gateways.
• Snort rules can be imported from SmartConsole.
• Importing Custom Indicators (IoC) is supported from SmartConsole

Introduction
• NAT Enhancements
• Improved scalability of hide NAT on high-end multicore gateways, allowing maximum
usage of available hide ports by dynamically assigning available ports to the cores. See
sk103656 http://supportcontent.checkpoint.com/solutions?id=sk103656.
• IP Pool NAT performance enhancement - CoreXL multicore scalability for IP Pool NAT
connections.
• Gaia Enhancements
• Netflow support for IPFIX (with NAT and IPv6 flow records).
• IPv6 DHCP relay with ClusterXL (Security Gateway and VSX modes).
• Dynamic Routing Enhancements
• RIPng with VRRPv2.
• SNMP enhancements for routing.
• BGP 4-Byte AS and Local AS.
• VSX Enhancements
• 64-bit support for VSX Gateways, increasing concurrent connections capacity.
• Content Awareness for VSX Gateways.
• ClusterXL Enhancements
• The MAC Magic value is acquired automatically and is backward compatible with gateways
that were configured manually in earlier versions.
• For VSX Clusters in load sharing environments (VSLS), Backup members can communicate
with external networks and receive updates, in addition to Active and Standby members.
• Connectivity Upgrades now support synchronization of Dynamic Routing.
Management Enhancements
These enhancements were first introduced in R80.
• Multi-Domain Security Management
• Unified architecture and management console for Security Management and Multi Domain
Security Management.
• New and improved views for Domain management and Global Assignment.
• Role-based & Concurrent Administration - Several administrators can work in parallel on the
same security policy, with granular and flexible privilege delegation to each administrator.
• A new advanced locking mechanism ensures administrators do not overwrite each other's
work.
• Rich administrator profiles for exact privileges each administrator will have, including
managing specific policies or network segments, viewing specific logs, and conducting
security operations, such as installing policy.
• Secured Automation and Orchestration - CLI and API for security management enables full
integration with 3rd party systems and automation of daily operations. Automation and
SmartConsole management operations are allowed based on the same privilege profile.
• Faster Day to Day Operations
• Integrated logging to see all logs related to a rule in the same screen.
• Detailed rule information of who created the rule and when, hit counts, and user-defined
data, such as ticket numbers.

Introduction
• Enhanced search capabilities to quickly find any rule or object in the system.
• Enhanced Management High Availability synchronizes only changes between servers,
significantly improving efficiency.
• Next Generation Logs, Events and Reports
• Analyze hundreds of millions of logs per day with graphical views and reports, customized
to address specific requirements.
• Logging, monitoring, and report aspects also available in the Web-based interface.
• Free-text search of logs and events with auto-suggest and favorites, with results in
seconds.
• New and Enhanced Revision Management Capabilities
• Built-in automatic policy revision.
• Install a specific version of policies.
• Change to a specific version of IPS package.
• Cloud Demo - Experience R80.10 management scenarios on any computer. sk103431
• vSEC Controller - Natively integrates with the leading private and public cloud platforms:
VMware vCenter & NSX, CISCO ACI, Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and
OpenStack.
vSEC Controller provides dynamic security policy and visibility, which automatically adapts to
changes in the cloud environments. This provides simple automated security across physical,
virtual, and cloud environments, from a single unified management solution.
Behavior Changes
• Management
• Management API commands and the SmartView Web-based interface replace the
Management Portal. Use the API commands to install a policy and show a list of Gateways
and Servers. Use SmartView to see logs.
• The new tags for objects replace the renaming of object colors. You can name a tag
according to a color. The tags make it easier to manage objects in SmartConsole.
• New and improved management abilities replace the Database Revision function. To learn
about the enhanced Revisions Management in R80 and higher, see sk113615
http://supportcontent.checkpoint.com/solutions?id=sk113615.
• The mdsstop and mdsstart commands on the Multi-Domain Server are the only way to
start and stop Domain Management Servers function. Most Domain Management Server
components are handled in one process. This reduces memory consumption and CPU
usage.
• Improved verification process of the Rule Base when installing a policy. Therefore, Security
Policies, which passed the verification process before the upgrade, may fail after the
upgrade. If you get a verification error message after the upgrade, fix the rules manually.
Note - You can do an upgrade simulation using the R80.10 Upgrade Verification and
Environment Simulation Service
http://supportcontent.checkpoint.com/solutions?id=sk110267. The service notifies you
about possible policy verification failure.

Introduction
• Logs, Events, and Reports

• The Logs tab of the SmartConsole Logs & Monitor view replaces SmartLog and SmartView
Tracker. The Logs tab allows you to search through logs with simple and fast searches.
Search results are fast and immediately show the log records.
• SmartEvent replaces SmartReporter and SmartEvent Intro.
• Scheduled reports have been integrated to SmartConsole, and are no longer available from
SmartEvent legacy GUI.
• Threat Prevention and IPS
• The new IPS Optimized Profile replaces the Recommended Profile with excellent security
and improved gateway performance. When upgrading with the Recommended Profile, we
recommend that you change to the Optimized Profile.
• Additional granularity in Threat Prevention permission profiles - Set permissions for IPS
Updates.
• User Center authentication is synchronized with Management Servers to allow IPS and
Threat Prevention updates without explicit login to the User Center. This applies only to
users with permissions to run updates.
• New IPS Protections are marked as "Staging" by default. The Staging configuration can be
changed from the Threat Prevention profile > IPS. You can search and filter Staging
protections from the Protections view, and see corresponding logs. This replaces the
follow up flag.
• Software Blades
• Session Authentication and UserAuthority are replaced by Identity Awareness.
• Overviews, which were part of the Threat Prevention and Application Control tabs in R77
versions, are now shown in the Logging and Monitoring view. This requires SmartEvent
activation and license.
• VPN Traditional Mode is replaced by VPN Simplified Mode.
Licensing
Contact Account Services mailto:accountservices@checkpoint.com?subject=Licensing Issues for
all license issues.

Supported Upgrade Paths
Supported Upgrade Paths

CPUSE is the installation and upgrade method supported for this release. To learn more about
CPUSE, see sk92449 http://supportcontent.checkpoint.com/solutions?id=sk92449.
Upgrade with the Supported Methods for your current installation.
From R80 to R80.10:

Component Supported Methods
Security Management Server • CPUSE Upgrade
• CPUSE Clean Install
Multi-Domain Server
From R75.40, R75.45, R75.46, R75.47, R75.40VS, R76, R77, R77.10, R77.20, R77.30 to
R80.10:
Component Supported Methods
Security Management Server • CPUSE Upgrade
Multi-Domain Server
• Advanced Database Migration
Security Gateway • CPUSE Upgrade
VSX CPUSE Upgrade (from R77 only)
Earlier versions: Use instructions in sk101518
http://supportcontent.checkpoint.com/solutions
?id=sk101518
vSEC Controller CPUSE Upgrade (from R77.30 only)
To upgrade from R77.20 or R77.30 with the Add-on: It is not necessary to uninstall the Add-on.
Remove these unsupported features: Modbus support with the Application Control Software
Blade, "SAML" Cloud Connector for web based single sign on.
Note: User Defined reports will be migrated during the upgrade to the SmartConsole reports.
Report Scheduling and email server definitions will not be migrated and need to be defined.

Required Disk Space
Required Disk Space

Required Disk Space for Security Management Server, Security Gateway, or
Standalone:
Before installation or upgrade, CPUSE verifies that enough free disk space is available. If the
space available is not sufficient, a message shows what is required.
This table shows the disk space required for some packages.
Installation or Management Server, Security Gateway,

Upgrade Type or Standalone or Cluster Member
R80.10 Clean Install The minimum required unpartitioned disk space is the highest
value of one of these:
R80.10 Major Upgrade
• Size of the current root partition.
(from R7x.x)
• The used space in the current root partition plus 3 GB.
• If the used space is more than 90% of the root partition, then
110% of the size of the current root partition.
R80.10 Minor Upgrade 3.3GB in root partition, and Not relevant
from R80 2.2GB in log partition
If you do not have enough disk space, you can use the Logical Volume Manager (lvm) to increase
the disk space of logical volumes on Gaia. This space is taken from the unallocated disk space,
which is usually used for snapshots and upgrades. See sk95566
http://supportcontent.checkpoint.com/solutions?id=sk95566.
Required Disk Space for Multi-Domain Security Management:

Before you run a clean install of R80.10 on Multi-Domain Servers, make sure that at least 10 GB of
free disk space in the root partition is available. For an environment with many Domain
Management Servers, more than 10 GB of free disk space is often required.

Check Point Appliances
Check Point Appliances

Standalone and Management Servers boot by default with 64-bit on clean install and upgrade to
R80.10.
Note - If you revert an R80.10 upgrade, the appliance will still boot with 64-bit, even if it was
originally 32-bit.
Management Servers
Component Smart-1 Smart-1
25b, 205, 210, 225, 405, 410 50, 150, 3050, 3150
Security Management  
Log Server  
SmartEvent Server  
Multi-Domain Security

Management
Multi-Domain Log Server 
* Smart-1 25b, 205, and 210 appliances with default memory can run Security Management OR
Log Server OR SmartEvent.
** We recommend that you upgrade the memory of Smart-1 205 to 16GB as part of the upgrade to
R80.10.
*** Smart-1 210 with memory extension to 16GB can run Security Management AND/OR Log
Server AND/OR SmartEvent.
Security Gateway and Standalone (Gateway + Management)

The model numbers in this table are for the series of appliances that support R80.10.
Appliance Series Security Gateway Standalone (Gateway +

Management)
2200 
3000  
4000  *
5000  
12000  12600*
13000  
15000  
21000  

Open Server Hardware Recommendations
23000  
* The 4200 appliance does not support a Standalone deployment.

These appliance models do not support a Standalone deployment with their default RAM (4GB):
4400, 4600, 4800, 12200, and 12400. Upgrade these models to at least 8 GB RAM to support a
Standalone deployment.
Open Server Hardware

Recommendations
R80.10 servers are designed to utilize available hardware resources efficiently to maximize
performance and scalability. We recommend that you leverage this advantage and use the most
powerful hardware available to get the best performance.
Component Security Gateway VSX Gateway Security Management Multi-Domain

Server / Standalone Server
Dual Socket 2x
Intel Pentium IV, Intel Pentium IV, Intel Pentium IV,
Xeon E5-2609v2
Processor 2 GHz 2 GHz 2.6 GHz
4 cores, 2.5 GHz or
or equivalent or equivalent or equivalent
equivalent
Total CPU Cores 2 2 2 8
Memory 4 GB RAM 4 GB RAM 6 GB RAM 32 GB RAM
12 GB + 500 GB (Installation 1 TB (Installation

Free Disk Space 15 GB
1 GB per VS includes OS) includes OS)
Maximum Supported Physical Memory

Check Point Product Physical RAM Limit
Security Management Server, or Multi-Domain Security 512 GB
Management
Security Gateway, or Cluster Member 256 GB

Open Server Hardware Recommendations
Supported Platforms
Component Red Hat Enterprise VMware ESXi Microsoft Hyper-V

Linux*
Security Management Server 5.5, 6.8, 7.3 5.x, 6.x Windows 2012 R2
Multi-Domain Server 5.5, 6.8, 7.3 5.x, 6.x Windows 2012 R2
Security Gateway 5.x, 6.x Not certified**

Not supported
*** Certified for ***
* To install R80.10 on Linux, contact Check Point Support

https://www.checkpoint.com/support-services/contact-support/.
** For the most updated information about Microsoft Hyper-V, see the Virtual Machines section of
the Hardware Compatibility List https://www.checkpoint.com/support-services/hcl/.
*** Check Point vSEC IaaS Virtual Edition (VE) is supported with 1 core systems and 4G RAM for
a Security Gateway on ESXi, Hyper-V and KVM with firewall and NGTP.
Build Numbers
Software Blade / Product Build Number Verifying Build Number
Gaia 462 show version all
Security Gateway 435 fw ver
Security Management 192 fwm ver
Multi-Domain Server 232 fwm mds ver
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Supported Backward Compatibility Gateways
Supported Backward Compatibility

Gateways
R80.10 Management Servers can manage Security Gateways of these versions:
Gateway Type Release Version

Security Gateway R75.20, R75.30, R75.40, R75.45, R75.40VS, R75.46, R75.47,
R76
R77, R77.10, R77.20, R77.30
VSX Gateway R75.40VS and higher
R80.10 Management Servers can manage appliance Security Gateways of these versions:
Appliance Release Version

Security Gateway 80 R75.20.x
UTM-1 Edge N 8.1 and higher
1100 Appliances R75.20.x, R77.20.x
1200R Appliances R77.20.x
1400 Appliances R77.20.x
60000/40000 Scalable R76SP, R76SP.10, R76SP.20, R76SP.30, R76SP.40 for 61000/41000

Platforms
R76SP.50 for 61000/41000 and 64000/44000
Maximum Supported Number of

Interfaces on Security Gateway
The maximum number of interfaces supported (physical and virtual) is shown in this table.
Mode Max Interfaces Notes

Security Gateway 1024 Non-VSX
VSX Gateway 4096 Includes VLANs and Warp Interfaces
Virtual System 256 Includes VLANs and Warp Interfaces
Note - This table applies to Check Point Appliances and to Open Servers.

Maximum Supported Number of Cluster Members
Maximum Supported Number of

Cluster Members
Cluster Type Maximum Supported Number
of Cluster Members
ClusterXL 5
Virtual System Load Sharing 13
Hardware Health Monitoring

R80.10 supports these Hardware Health Monitoring features for Gaia Check Point appliances:
• RAID Health: Use SNMP to monitor the health of the disks in the RAID array, and be notified of
volume and disk states.
• Hardware Sensors: Use the Gaia Portal or SNMP to monitor fan speed, motherboard voltages,
power supply health, and temperatures. Some open servers are supported with an IPMI
interface card that requires an IPMI card.
Check Point Appliances Smart-1
SNMP Hardware sensor monitoring (polling and traps) 
Gaia Portal hardware sensor monitoring 
RAID monitoring with SNMP 
Open Servers:
Hardware Sensors: Use the Gaia Portal or SNMP to monitor fan speed, motherboard voltages,
power supply health, and temperatures. Some open servers are supported with an IPMI interface
card that requires an IPMI card.
Note - IPMI is an open standard. We cannot guarantee the Hardware Health Monitoring
performance on all systems and configurations.

Logging Requirements
Logging Requirements
Logs Storing
Logs can be stored on:
• A Security Management Server that collects logs from the Security Gateways. This is the
default.
• A Log Server on a dedicated machine. This is recommended for organizations that generate
many logs.
A dedicated Log Server has greater capacity and performance than a Security Management Server
with an activated logging service. On dedicated Log Servers, the Log Server must be the same
version as the Management Server.
SmartEvent Requirements
You can install a SmartEvent Server on a Security Management Server or on a different, dedicated
server. SmartEvent R80.10 can connect to a different version of Log Server - R77.xx or earlier.
Usually SmartEvent and a Correlation Unit are installed on the same server. You can also install
them on separate servers, for example, to balance the load in large logging environments. The
Correlation unit must be the same version as SmartEvent.
To deploy SmartEvent and to generate reports, a valid license or contract is required.

SmartConsole Requirements
SmartConsole Requirements
Hardware Requirements
This table shows the minimum hardware requirements for SmartConsole applications:
Component Minimal Requirement

CPU Intel Pentium Processor E2140, or 2 GHz equivalent processor
Memory 4 GB
Available Disk Space 2 GB
Video Adapter Minimum resolution: 1024 x 768
Software Requirements
SmartConsole is supported on:
• Windows 10 (all editions), Windows 8.1 (Pro), and Windows 7 (SP1, Ultimate, Professional, and
Enterprise).
• Windows Server 2016, 2012, 2008 (SP2), and 2008 R2 (SP1).
Gaia Portal Requirements

The Gaia Portal supports these web browsers:
Browser Supported Versions

Google Chrome 14 and higher
8 and higher
Microsoft Internet Explorer (If you use Internet Explorer 8, file uploads through the Gaia
Portal are limited to 2 GB.)
Microsoft Edge Any
Mozilla Firefox 6 and higher
Apple Safari 5 and higher

Threat Emulation Requirements
Threat Emulation Requirements

The Threat Emulation requirements are different based on the emulation location:
• ThreatCloud - Gaia operating system (64 or 32-bit)
• Local or Remote emulation - Threat Emulation Private Cloud Appliance on the Gaia
operating system (64-bit only)
Emulation on local Threat Emulation appliances running R80.10 is not supported.
Mobile Access Requirements

OS Compatibility
Endpoint OS Compatibility Windows Linux Mac iOS Android
Mobile Access Portal     
Clientless access to web applications     

(Link Translation)
Compliance Scanner   
Secure Workspace 
SSL Network Extender - Network   

Mode
SSL Network Extender - Application 

Mode
Downloaded from Mobile Access   

applications
Clientless Citrix   
File Shares - Web-based file viewer     

(HTML)
Web mail     

Identity Awareness Requirements
Browser Compatibility
Endpoint Browser Microsoft Google Mozilla Apple Opera
Compatibility Internet Chrome Firefox Safari for
Explorer Windows
Mobile Access Portal     
Clientless access to web     

applications (Link
Translation)
Compliance Scanner  *  
Secure Workspace  * 
SSL Network Extender -  *  

Network Mode
SSL Network Extender -  * 

Application Mode
Downloaded from Mobile    

Access applications
Clientless Citrix  
File Shares - Web- based     

file viewer (HTML)
Web mail     
* Google Chrome support for Mobile Access Portal on-demand clients, such as SSL Network
Extender, Secure Workspace, and Endpoint Security on Demand, requires Java JRE 32-bit
installed on the end-user's computer.
Identity Awareness Requirements

• Identity Agents
See Clients and Agents Support by Windows Platform (on page 25) and Clients and Agents
Support by Mac Platform (on page 27) for:
• Identity Agent (Light and Full)
• Identity Agent for Terminal Servers
• AD Query
Active Directory for AD Query is supported on:
Microsoft Windows Server 2003, 2008, 2008 R2, 2012.

Endpoint Security Requirements
Endpoint Security Requirements

These are the minimum requirements to enable Endpoint Policy Management on a Security
Management Server:
Component Requirement on all Supported Operating Systems

Number of CPU Cores 4
Memory 8GB RAM
Disk Space 100GB
• Endpoint Security Management Servers are supported on management-only computers or

appliances. Standalone (Security Gateway + Management) deployment is not supported.
• Endpoint Security Management Servers are not supported on Red Hat Enterprise Linux
releases.
• R80.10 Endpoint Security Management Servers can manage E80.62, E80.64, E80.65, E80.70 and
E80.71 Endpoint Security Clients for Windows, and E80.64 Endpoint Security Client for Mac.
For more information, see the R80.10 Endpoint Security Administration Guide
http://downloads.checkpoint.com/dc/download.htm?ID=54801 and Endpoint Security Client User
Guides
https://supportcenter.checkpoint.com/supportcenter/portal?eventSubmit_doShowproductpage&p
roductTab=documents&product=175 for your version.

Check Point Clients and Agents Support

Multiple Login Option Support
This release adds multiple login options per gateway with multi-factor authentication schemes,
for users of different clients and the Mobile Access portal. For example, configure an option to
authenticate with Personal Certificate and Password, or Password and DynamicID for SMS or
email.
These features are supported when connected with to an R80.10 gateway that has IPsec VPN or
Mobile Access enabled.
Supported Client or Portal Lowest Supported Version

Mobile Access Portal R80.10
Capsule Workspace for iOS 1002.2
Capsule Workspace for Android 7.1
Remote Access Clients - Standalone clients E80.65
Remote Access VPN Blade of the Endpoint Security Suite E80.65
See the R80.10 Mobile Access Administration Guide

http://downloads.checkpoint.com/dc/download.htm?ID=53103 or the R80.10 VPN Remote Access
Administration Guide http://downloads.checkpoint.com/dc/download.htm?ID=53105 for details.
Clients and Agents Support by Windows Platform

Microsoft Windows 7 higher
In this table, Windows 7 support is true for Ultimate, Professional, and Enterprise editions.
Windows 8 support is true for Professional and Enterprise editions. All the marked consoles and
clients support 32-bit and 64-bit, unless the table shows 32-bit only.
Check Point Product Windows 7 Windows 8 Windows 8.1 Windows 10*

(+SP1)
Remote Access clients 
E75.x/E80.x    (E80.62 and
higher)
Capsule VPN Plug-in  
SSL Network Extender    
UserCheck Client   
Identity Agent (Light and

   
Full)

Check Point Product Windows 7 Windows 8 Windows 8.1 Windows 10*

(+SP1)
Identity Agent for Terminal
   
Servers
SecureClient 
(32-bit only)
*For supported Windows 10 builds, see Windows 10 Support.
Note - Identity Agent for Terminal Servers is also supported on Citrix version 6.
Microsoft Windows XP and Vista
Check Point Product XP Home (SP3) XP Pro (SP3) Vista (SP2) Vista (SP1)
32-bit 32-bit 32-bit 64-bit
Remote Access clients
   
E75.x
SSL Network Extender    
UserCheck Client  
Identity Agent (Light

   
and Full)
Identity Agent for


Terminal Servers
SecureClient   
Microsoft Windows Server
Check Point Product Server 2003 Server 2008 Server Server Server
(SP2) (SP1 / SP2) 2008 R2 2012 2012 R2
32-bit 32 / 64 bit (+SP1) 64-bit
UserCheck Client  
DLP Exchange Agent    
Identity Agent for

    
Terminal Servers
Note: DLP Exchange Agent supports Microsoft Exchange Server 2007 and 2010 on Windows
Servers 64-bit. A 32-bit version is available for demonstration or educational purposes. DLP
Exchange Agent supports Microsoft Exchange Server 2013 on Windows Server 2012 64-bit.

Clients and Agents Support by Mac Platform

Check Point Product Mac OS X 10.6 Mac OS X 10.7 Mac OS X 10.8
Identity Agent (Light and Full) 32-bit / 64-bit 32-bit / 64-bit 64-bit
Endpoint Security VPN E75 or higher 32-bit / 64-bit 32-bit / 64-bit 64-bit
Endpoint Security Client E80.40 or higher 32-bit / 64-bit 32-bit / 64-bit 64-bit
SecureClient 32-bit 32-bit No
DLP Exchange Agent Support

The R80.10 DLP Exchange Agent is supported on:
Windows Server Exchange Server

2012 R2 64-bit 2010, 2013
2016 64-bit 2016
For earlier server versions, use the R77.30 DLP Exchange Agent.

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19 October 2017 Updated Behavior Changes (on page 11)

27 September 2017 Updated Check Point Appliances (on page 15)

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Security Policy New Architecture

Access Control Policy

• New tracking options in Unified Rule Base.

Threat Prevention Policy

Significant Improvements and New Features

Release Notes R80.10 | 9

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• Logs, Events, and Reports

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Supported Upgrade Paths

From R80 to R80.10:

vSEC Controller CPUSE Upgrade (from R77.30 only)

Release Notes R80.10 | 13

Required Disk Space

Installation or Management Server, Security Gateway,

Required Disk Space for Multi-Domain Security Management:

Release Notes R80.10 | 14

Check Point Appliances

Security Gateway and Standalone (Gateway + Management)

Appliance Series Security Gateway Standalone (Gateway +

Release Notes R80.10 | 15

* The 4200 appliance does not support a Standalone deployment.

Open Server Hardware

Component Security Gateway VSX Gateway Security Management Multi-Domain

Total CPU Cores 2 2 2 8

Memory 4 GB RAM 4 GB RAM 6 GB RAM 32 GB RAM

12 GB + 500 GB (Installation 1 TB (Installation

Maximum Supported Physical Memory

Security Gateway, or Cluster Member 256 GB

Release Notes R80.10 | 16

Component Red Hat Enterprise VMware ESXi Microsoft Hyper-V

Multi-Domain Server 5.5, 6.8, 7.3 5.x, 6.x Windows 2012 R2

Security Gateway 5.x, 6.x Not certified**

* To install R80.10 on Linux, contact Check Point Support

Security Gateway 435 fw ver

Security Management 192 fwm ver

Multi-Domain Server 232 fwm mds ver

SmartConsole 991140024 Menu > About Check Point SmartConsole

Release Notes R80.10 | 17

Supported Backward Compatibility

Gateway Type Release Version

VSX Gateway R75.40VS and higher

Appliance Release Version

UTM-1 Edge N 8.1 and higher