Check Point CloudGuard Cloud Native Security

2021: Automated and Unified Cloud Workload Protection Solution

On July 6, 2021, Check Point Software Technologies announced the expansion of the capabilities of its unified Cloud Native Security platform. Check Point CloudGuard Workload Protection now includes an application-centric workload protection solution. This fully automated solution provides security professionals with tools available through a single interface to automate application, API, and microservice protection from development to execution.

The COVID-19 pandemic forced enterprises to switch to remote operation, and the development of cloud technologies was a natural step for organizations that strive to quickly create the necessary opportunities for their employees to work effectively in a home office environment. As a result, security departments have to manage many opaque platforms that cannot protect rapidly multiplying cloud workloads. According to a recent study, 68% of enterprises consider the incorrect configuration of cloud assets to be one of the main causes of threats to cloud security. At the same time as moving to the cloud, many organizations are implementing Shift Left, "shifting left" security by implementing security checks from the initial development phase of source code to its implementation in a productive environment.

By combining cloud security, Check Point CloudGuard addresses the key needs identified in the Enterprise Strategy Group's annual cloud security study - the need for a consolidated set of security management tools in a public cloud based on an integrated platform. The fully automated approach implemented in the CloudGuard platform reflects another important point of our research - the need to automate the implementation of management tools and processes through integration with CI/CD tools used by groups, DevOps said Doug Cahill, vice president, service analyst and senior analyst at Enterprise Strategy Group.

CloudGuard implements an application-centric approach to securing workloads with an automated web application protection platform and APIs.

Key features:

• A single, automated approach reduces the complexity of the environment and the risks associated with protecting cloud applications and workloads by providing comprehensive security for all applications and microservices on a single cloud platform.
• Microservice protection provides zero-trust access and the highest level of threat detection across the entire environment by automatically profiling the behavior of functions and containers and preventing threats at the runtime level.
• The Early Protection Toolkit provides scanning of containers and server-free functions from the moment of assembly, automatically assessing configuration risks and generating access control with minimal privileges for these functions.
• Central Control CI/CD Tools: Automate security from assembly to registration.

Check Point has expanded its Check Point CloudGuard platform to include container protection to provide a complete suite of workload protection that is managed by a single cloud platform.

2020: Representation of the CloudGuard Cloud Native Security cloud platform

On June 15, 2020, the company Check Point Software Technologies introduced a fully automated cloudy platform - CloudGuard Cloud Native Security. This platform provides safety cloud deployments and workload protection, and enables customers to manage security with a single dashboard. CloudGuard simplifies cloud security and helps prevent cyber attacks the sixth generation.

According to the SANS 2020 Cybersecurity Spending Survey, rapid migration to the cloud is the main source of failures in the enterprise security architecture. More than half of respondents note the use of public clouds as the main cause of security violations. Due to the pandemic and the massive transition to remote work, the problem has only become more complicated. Existing company security controls fail to meet the speed, scale, and complexity of cloud deployments, leaving companies vulnerable to attacks.

"According to IDC, more than 80% of organizations have multiple cloud service providers, making multi-cloud security a challenge. Therefore, the main goal is to establish a single management policy for all suppliers. Check Point Security Platform aims to integrate security policies between private and public clouds, " noted Frank Dickson, vice president of security and trust at IDC

Check Point CloudGuard addresses the protection of multi-cloud systems by providing a complete and manageable cloud security platform. The solution provides seamless deployment and management of protection for any cloud environment and workloads, and automates security processes to meet DevOps requirements, Check Point emphasized.

"Security often becomes a barrier to enterprise cloud deployments because traditional security is not flexible enough to handle the speed and scale of the cloud. CloudGuard is a solution that provides security for customers' cloud systems, and automated management, comprehensive monitoring, and security policies make it easy to use, " noted by Itai Greenberg, VP of Check Point Product Management

Features of CloudGuard Cloud Native Security, noted by the developer:

• Integrated system security and threat prevention. The platform protects the cloud and workloads from APT zero-day and zero-day attacks with unified security that includes,, firewall IPS management,, and applications IPSec VPN antivirus real-time anti-threat boat detection.
• Manage cloud security. CloudGuard provides data on multiple company cloud environments in a single place, providing continuous analysis and monitoring of their security from CI/CD to production environments.
• Automate protection for any workload in any cloud. CloudGuard provides security regardless of your cloud deployment environment, enabling organizations to protect any workload anywhere by automatically preparing, scaling, and updating security policies. The technology provides comprehensive security management from a single point of view, as well as protection of server-free and container applications in multi-cloud environments.