the main differences between the two types is that physical devices have the hardware capability to perform at much higher levels compared to the VM instances. These firewalls can either be physical or virtual.
Checkpoint is known as being a next generation firewall vendor due to being able to support advanced features up to layer 7 of the OSI model, these include “Application Filtering”, “Deep Packet Inspection(DPI)”, “IPS”, “SSL Inspection”, “AV scanning”, “Identity Management”, “URL Filtering” and many more.Ĭheckpoint Firewalls are not zone based Firewalls unlike your Cisco or Juniper.
