Check Point Provider-1 Next Generation Customer Management Add-On High Avai

Provider-1 is a security management solution designed to meet the unique challenges of service providers and large enterprises. For service providers, it consolidates customer security policies into a centralized policy management architecture that scales to support thousands of customers while minimizing investment in hardware and labor. For a large enterprise, Provider-1 simplifies a complex security policy by segmenting it into more manageable sub-policies to match geographic, functional, or other logical groupings.

A Customer Management Add-On (CMA) is an individual customer policy stored within a Multi-Domain Server (MDS). It manages multiple customer enforcement points simultaneously. It consists of a rule base, dedicated user database, object database, and log file. All CMAs are completely isolated from each other. Up to 500 CMAs can be stored on a single MDS.