Protego — the Israeli developer of technologies of information security support. The company specializes in "prevention of the harmful attacks on besserverny functions during execution of programs and interferes with implementation of vulnerabilities in the industrial code", it is told on the website of the producer.
History
2019: Check Point purchased Protego
At the beginning of December, 2019 Check Point announced Protego purchase. The financial component of the agreement of the company was decided to be left in a secret.
After closing of the transaction which should take place until the end of 2019 Protego technologies will be integrated with the Check Point CloudGuard platform and architecture of Infinity.
According to Check Point, rapid implementation of technologies of besserverny calculations, including the Amazon Web Services Lambda platforms, "throws down a challenge to the existing paradigms of security of cloud environments and applications". At the same time transfer of workloads "brings to a cloud in itself a set of vulnerabilities inherent in them" and requires the solutions increasing security.
Implementing besserverny security in our leader in the market a portfolio of CloudGuard and using our complex platform for cloud security and compliance to regulatory requirements, we provide unprecedented protection of multicloud and hybrid environments — the vice president for the products Check Point Dorit Dor said. |
According to the head of global partner channel Check Point Frank Rauch, the Protego technology perfectly will be suitable for IT suppliers who invested heavily in development and migration of applications how the besserverny technology became an important part of operation of applications and workloads. Partners will get access to the big practicians connected with public clouds and managed services and also to advantages of Protego technologies, having become even more useful consultants for clients regarding the necessary applications.[1]