As cloud-based working becomes de facto, more and more data is being shared and stored remotely. Whilst working in the cloud offers many benefits to organisations, the security of moving and storing data in the cloud has become an important element of an organisation’s cloud strategy.
Check Point’s CloudGuard Network Security has been developed precisely to offer this security. Developed over many years, and being as it is part of the CloudGuard cloud native security platform, it provides the advanced threat protection and cloud security that your business demands.
An in-depth look at Check Point CloudGuard Network Security
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security provides secure threat-prevention and boasts an industry-best catch rate of malware and ransomware. It is a flexible and scalable solution that will ensure you can benefit from rapid deployment and agile workflows whilst working within the inherently elastic nature of the cloud. It has been developed to support the widest possible range of clouds, including public, private and hybrid clouds. Here we look at CloudGuard Network security in detail.
Partnerships
Check Point partners with leading public IaaS providers and SDN solutions to ensure that best-in-class premises-based solutions are mirrored for the cloud.
Advance User Experience
CloudGuard provides a single ‘pane of glass’ experience regardless of you working in a public, private or hybrid cloud environment. The UX consolidates logs and reporting regardless of the environment.
Supporting your compliance policy
Check Point understand the importance of having a consistent security policy in order to maintain efficient practice; with CloudGuard Network Security you can expect comprehensive authentication and compliance reporting as standard across both virtual and physical network environments.
Data Centre and Network Function Virtualisation
CloudGuard provides comprehensive security for dynamic virtualised environments and supports common solutions such as VMware ESX, Hyper-V and KVM. NFV environments can also be secured, as well as virtual data centres.
Private Cloud Security
There are many security challenges and gaps resulting from the shift to East-West traffic flow within the data centre. CloudGuard works by augmenting existing micro-segmentation capabilities by working with leading network virtualisation solutions.
The following Cloud Management platforms can integrate with CloudGuard: VMWare NSX, VMware vCenter, Nutanix AHV, Cisco ACI, Microsoft Azure Stack and OpenStack.
Public Cloud Security
When resources and data are moved to public clouds, you and your cloud provider will in effect share security responsibilities. Most clients want to ensure that there is advanced security, beyond basic infrastructure security. CloudGuard provides this by extending advanced protections to most leading cloud environments, including Amazon Web Services, Microsoft Azure, Google Cloud, VMware Cloud on AWS, Alibaba Cloud, Huawei Cloud, Tencent Cloud, IBM Cloud, Oracle Cloud Infrastructure and more.
Advanced Threat Prevention
CloudGuard will ensure total control when moving Apps and data to the cloud, whilst monitoring and guarding against any security challenges. CloudGuard provides both North-South and East-West asset protection. It can be deployed in minutes, and will support elastic scalability and the need for dynamic security policies.
CloudGuard boasts the following advanced security features:
- Firewall
- DLP
- Anti-Bot
- Antivirus
- SandBlast Threat Emulation and Extraction
- IPsec VPN
- URL filtering
- SSL/ TLS traffic inspection and forwarding
Finally, CloudGuard is powered by Check Point’s world-class ThreatCloud technology, which combines the very latest AI tech with big-data intelligence.
Key Product Features
Security features include Firewall, DLP, IPS, Application Control, IPsec VPN, Antivirus and Anti-Bot. SandBlast adds Threat Extraction and Threat Emulation for zero-day attacks.
Threat Extraction removes exploitable content, and promptly delivers sanitized content to users.
Threat Emulation prevents infections from new malware and targeted attacks, using threat sandboxing with the best possible catch rate, and is virtually immune to evasion techniques.
SSL/TLS traffic inspection with traffic forwarding and SNI support for advanced threat prevention inside secure SSL traffic.
Unified Security Management provides consistent security policy management, enforcement, and reporting for public, private, hybrid-clouds and on-prem networks in a single pane-of-glass. CloudGuard Network Security CloudGuard provides industry-leading advanced threat prevention and cloud network security for your public, private and hybrid-clouds.
Seamless cloud-native integration with Azure, AWS, Google Cloud, Oracle Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, Huawei Cloud, Tencent Cloud, IBM Cloud, Cisco ACI, VMware ESXi/NSX, Nutanix AHV, KVM and OpenStack.
Check Point CloudGuard Network Security FAQs
CloudGuard is trusted by over 3,000 clients. It has also achieved significant industry recognition: It is the No.1 security partner for Microsoft Azure, and has been classed as ‘leader’ in the Gartner Magic Quadrant for over 20 years.
ThreatCloud is CheckPoint’s solution that combines the very latest AI technologies and big data threat intelligence. ThreatCloud will prevent the most advanced of attacks, whilst also helping to reduce the reporting of false positives. Think of it as the brain that powers CheckPoint products.
Here are a selection of providers that CloudGuard integrates with:
- Azure/ Azure Stack
- AWS
- Google Cloud
- Oracle Cloud
- VMWare NSX/ ESXi
- Cisco
- Openstack
- Nutanix
- Alibaba Cloud
- IBM cloud
- Yandex
- KVM
- Microsoft Hyper-V
- Equinix
- Aviatrix
- Terraform
- Ansible
- HashiCorp
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