I heard some rumors recently that I’d like to share with you. True or not, nobody can tell. But sure interesting 
First, we can expect R75 GA by the end of the year. No idea what will be included, but maybe we see more improvements from software blades. As Dorit Dor stated some time ago, the introduction of software blades with R70 was the first step in a three-step-approach of a complete architecture re-design within the Check Point products. So personally I think that every new GA release will bring us closer to the goal and will give us additional performance and/or more features.
Second, Check Point seems to plan the content inspection of HTTPS traffic, availability should be around end of Q1/2011. This is a very interesting feature and I’m really locking forward to it. We had lot’s of projects where the customer choose not to use Check Point content scanning but rather a solution like WebWasher, which could inspect also SSL encrypted traffic. I wonder how the handling will be done in detail and how easy the setup will be in comparison with WebWasher etc.
That’s all for now. Wait and see, if these rumors have a valid background.
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