Understanding Check Point license features

Check Point has one of the most complex ever licensing scheme (still nothing compared to Microsoft), which is updated (and often radically changed) every 2 months.

Every feature you want to license is recognized by a special code which will appear inside the license signature (or inside the SmartUpdate client):


Troubleshooting a customer installation one big problem is reversing the license signature to exactly understand what is licensed and should work and what will not work in any case.

To help in this task a Check Point Silver Partner, AERAsec, assembled a wonderful list of features code, divided in:

• Standard features


• Advanced features

Note that at the moment the list is updated for Check Point NG family up to Application Intelligence [R55]. Expect an update for the new NGX family.