What do you do when Microsoft decides your niche is worth taking away from you? Come out with a slew of new products of course. Try to stay one step ahead. Tom Keating details how Check Point has announced NGX. Check Point thinks this product will change the way you deploy and manage information security.

In addition to general IT related security issues, Check Point details in a conference call with Tom Keating – their excellent VoIP support. You may or not be aware that they can either allow or disallow Skype calls and prevent denial of service attacks on VoIP calls.

What is worth noting about this announcement is how mainstream IT security vendors are beginning to give VoIP serious attention. They realize that VoIP support is essential in today’s IT security world.