BUYER’S GUIDE TO CLOUD NETWORK SECURITY

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BUYER’S GUIDE TO CLOUD NETWORK SECURITY

Introduction As organizations accelerate adoption of public cloud platforms, attackers are

increasingly targeting cloud-hosted applications and infrastructure. Web

applications and cloud workloads are particularly attractive attack surfaces

because they are internet-facing and frequently store sensitive business and

customer data.

Research from Check Point Software Technologies highlights the scale of the

security challenge. According to the 2025 Cloud Security Report, 65% of

organizations experienced a cloud-related security incident in the past year, yet

only 9% detected the incident within the first hour, allowing attackers significant

time to move laterally and access sensitive resources.

For organizations evaluating cloud network security solutions and cloud firewalls,

this Buyer’s Guide explains the top ten considerations with explanations why each

consideration is important. The document introduces Check Point’s Cloud Firewall

as a Service and describes how it answers the top ten considerations and provides

examples from customer stories and testimonials relevant to each consideration.

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A Diverse Cloud Vendor Ecosystem to Secure

Figure 1: Tens of Cloud Vendors Require Integrated Threat Prevention and Access Control

Figure 1 illustrates many of the cloud vendors, both private and public, that organizations can choose for their cloud deployments. This diversity of network technologies makes it challenging for any organization to ensure a robust cloud security posture for their precious revenue generating applications and data. As more clouds are added the challenge to secure increases exponentially.

When purchasing cloud firewalls, it’s important to remember that cloud security takes place in the context of a shared responsibility model. At the infrastructure level (IaaS), cloud providers are responsible for securing their compute-network-storage infrastructure resources while users are responsible for protecting the data, deployed on the infrastructure as well as access control to it. The tools and services offered by cloud providers to help users uphold their end of the shared responsibility model are important elements of any cloud network security solution. However, cloud providers are not specialists in security; these cloud provider tools and services must be complemented by partner solutions in order to achieve enterprise-grade network security.

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Figure 2: Shared Responsibility Model for Cloud Infrastructure as a Service

As shown in Figure 2, a key foundational layer managing multi-cloud network security, is maintaining data security. The cloud shared responsibility model is a vital part of ensuring that cloud data and applications are secured against attack. Each cloud provider’s shared responsibility model outlines what security tasks are their responsibility and which are the customer’s.

Cloud customers need to understand the cloud shared responsibility model to know their role in securing their cloud infrastructure against attack. They also need to know where to most effectively and efficiently deploy virtual security gateways to provide advanced threat prevention, traffic inspection and micro-segmentation. Such security solutions use multiple layered security technologies including Firewall, IPS, Application Control, DLP and others.

This guide discusses the functionality that effective cloud security solutions should have, and how you can make sure that vendor solutions have the capabilities that are important to your organization’s success and security.

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Why is this important? Detecting a threat after it has breached the corporate network exposes the organization’s assets to unacceptable levels of cybersecurity risk. In order to stay a step ahead of malicious actors —including zero-day and other agile exploits—must be captured and neutralized before they penetrate the network. This advanced prevention is possible only by deploying a deep security solution that applies advanced methodologies across multiple layers. Most importantly, a deeper and more comprehensive cloud network security solution will reduce the probability of a cloud breach and minimize the impact and damage if and when it occurs.

Why is this important? Security teams can not deliver enterprise-grade protection with a fragmented stack comprised of vendor-specific or environment-specific security tools. Aside from the challenging range of diverse skill sets this requires, it inevitably creates policy and process gaps through which threats can slip.

The Top 10 Considerations for Evaluating a Cloud Network Security Solution Here are the top ten criteria you should be using to choose your company’s optimal cloud network security solution:

In order to stay a step ahead of attacks, threats must be captured and neutralized before they penetrate the network. MUST STOP ZERO DAYS.

Advanced Threat Prevention and Deep Security Threat detection is not enough to effectively protect cloud assets in today’s complex cybersecurity landscape. You need multilayered, real-time threat prevention for

both known and unknown (zero-day) vulnerabilities. The solution must deliver deep security through features such as granular and deep traffic inspection, enhanced threat intelligence, and sandboxing that isolates suspicious traffic until it is either validated or blocked. And these advanced capabilities must be deployed on both North-South (incoming/outgoing) and East-West (lateral) traffic.

Borderless The solution must run transparently and consistently across even the most complex multi-cloud and hybrid (public/private/on-prem) environments. A unified

Hybrid mesh management interface (sometimes called a “single pane-of-glass”) should provide a single source of ALL network security truth as well as a centralized command and control console.

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Why is this important? Without deep traffic inspection, organizations are easy prey to evasion techniques that attempt to carry out unauthorized actions through seemingly legitimate access points. And trying to control application activity by blocking URLs and IP addresses is doomed to failure because these protections are easy to bypass; the only solution is application level control as easy as “block Facebook”.

Why is this important? Any cloud solution that does not enable high levels of automation will be impossible to support and will be abandoned by customers. Legacy security approaches that rely heavily on human intervention cannot scale to meet the volume, velocity and variety of today’s cybersecurity threats, Manual processes are also slow and prone to error. As in many other areas of IT, in security as well the only solution is rule-based, adaptive automated workflows.

Why is this important? Integration is critical to a number of other considerations described here, such as enabling borderless operations and increasing visibility. It plays an important role in creating a cross-functional cloud security platform that addresses not only infrastructure security but also application security, cloud security posture management, and more. Tight integration also contributes greatly to overall ease of use, allowing configurations and tasks to be carried out with the least number of clicks and minimal navigation through complex interfaces.

Granular Traffic Inspection and Control Look for next generation firewall (NGFW) capabilities, such as fine matching granularity that goes beyond basic whitelisting, deep inspection to ensure that

traffic matches the purposes of the allowed ports, advanced filtering based on URL addresses, and controls at not just the port level but the application level as well.

Automation In order to match the speed and scalability of DevOps, the solution must support high levels of automation, including programmatic command and control of security

gateways, seamless integration with CI/CD processes, automated threat response and remediation workflows, and dynamic policy updates that don’t require human intervention.

Integration and Ease of Use The solution must work well with your company’s configuration management stack, including support for Infrastructure as Code deployments. In addition, the solution has

to be deeply integrated with the cloud providers’ offerings. In general, your goal should be to streamline operations and promote ease of use by minimizing the number of point security solutions that have to be deployed and managed separately.

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Why is this important? At the most basic level, you can’t secure what you can’t see. Even more important, however, is that what you see is both easily understandable and context-aware—correlating across the different signals, events, and data streams that are being monitored.

Why is this important? The work-from-home trend was accelerated by the pandemic, but many analysts are predicting that it will continue to grow even after the crisis is behind us. In a world of highly distributed and mobile work forces, remote access to the corporate network that is both secure and performant is a must-have.

Why is this important? High levels of integration and automation are critical for the intelligent and consistent management of security policies across complex environments. With asset, change and configuration management frameworks playing a central role in vulnerability remediation efforts, your security platform must be able to seamlessly publish changes, and adapt in real-time to all relevant security policies.

Visibility The solution’s dashboards, logs, and reports should provide end-to-end and actionable visibility into events as they are happening. For example, logs and reports should use

easy-to-parse cloud object names rather than obscure IP addresses. This visibility is also important for enhanced forensic analytics should a breach take place.

Scalable, Secure Remote Access The solution must secure remote access to the company’s cloud environment with features such as multi-factor authentication, endpoint compliance scanning, and

encryption of data-in-transit. Remote access must also be able to scale quickly so that, during times of disruption such as the COVID-19 pandemic, any number of remote employees can work productively yet securely.

Dynamic Policies / Context-aware Security Management The cloud network security solution must be able to aggregate and correlate information across the entire environment—public and private clouds as well as

on-premises networks so that security policies can be both context-aware and consistent. Changes to network, asset, or security group configurations within the cloud control plane should be automatically reflected in their relevant security policies eliminating manual intervention and change control.

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Why is this important? Recognition by trusted evaluators has become a key factor in purchasing decisions in general and certainly plays an important role here as well. Use these impartial recommendations to seek out a vendor that can drive your cloud security strategy forward, with the capacity to adapt and scale to your ever- changing business requirements. Look for a vendor who meets your security needs and can be a trusted cloud security advisor for many years into the future. Remember, an ill-matched vendor can be a constraining factor in achieving enterprise-grade cloud security.

Why is this important? You want your cloud security platform to streamline operations, optimize workflows, and reduce costs while enhancing your security posture. The last thing you want is to be surprised by hidden infrastructure, personnel and other costs that emerge only after the system is up and running.

Vendor Support and Industry Recognition In addition to the features and capabilities of the solution itself, it is also important to take a close look at the vendor. Is it highly rated by independent industry analysts and

third party security testing companies? Can it meet your SLAs? Does it have a proven track record? Can it provide added value, such as network security advisory services? Can it support your global operations? Is it committed to innovation so that its solution will be future-proof? Is its software mature, with few vulnerabilities, and does it deliver timely fixes?

Total Cost of Ownership The total cost of ownership is determined by a number of factors, all of which should be considered as part of the buying process: the flexibility of the licensing

model, the extent to which the cloud security platform seamlessly integrates with and leverages existing IT systems, the level and scope of personnel required to administer the system, the vendor’s MTTR and availability SLAs, and more.

The last thing you want is to be surprised by hidden infrastructure, personnel and other costs that emerge only after the system is up and running.

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Check Point: Advanced Cloud Network Security Check Point Cloud Firewall as a Service network security platform provides unified cloud native security for all your assets and workloads and across your multi-cloud environments, giving you the confidence to automate security, prevent threats, and manage posture.

One of Check Point Cloud Firewall as a Service's fundamental capabilities is cloud network security, delivered as a service that extends Check Point’s advanced threat prevention and industry-leading catch rate to dynamic and elastic cloud environments. It is adapted and configured specifically for easy deployment on public cloud platforms as well as software-defined, private cloud-based data centers.

Cloud Firewall as a Service extends Check Point’s advanced threat prevention and industry-leading catch rate to the dynamic and elastic cloud environment.

Check Point Cloud Firewall as a Service

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The Key Cloud Firewall as a Service Features and Benefits are:

Enterprise-grade, advanced, multilayered threat prevention

Check Point preemptively protects cloud assets against known and unknown (zero-day) vulnerabilities, leveraging one of

the world’s largest threat databases, Check Point ThreatCloud AI, as well as advanced threat extraction and threat

emulation technologies.

Granular traffic inspection and control Check Point implements deep SSL/TLS inspection for incoming and outgoing

traffic as well as for lateral traffic behind the firewall. Check Point next generation

firewall supports finely granular matching policies, including exclusions, verifying traffic against port configurations, and

application-level blocking.

Borderless Check Point is quickly deployed on and works seamlessly with multiple public

cloud service providers software-defined data center solution providers. Cloud Firewall as a Service software that is completely portable

from one cloud to the next.

Automated, agile network security at scale Cloud-defined elements (asset tags, objects,

security groups) are updated in real time and security policies adjusted automatically

to changes in the cloud environment. Check Point also promotes the automation of threat response, remediation processes,

and workflows.

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Integration with your existing tool stack Check Point integrates via APIs with

the leading configuration management, Infrastructure as Code, and CI/CD tools. Check Point is also deeply integrated with

cloud native tools and services, as described in more detail below.

Secure remote access Check Point ensures that all remote connections to cloud resources are

securely authenticated—including two- factor authentication for mobile access. Check Point also encrypts incoming and outgoing data-in-transit. On Azure, for example, Check Point leverages Virtual Machine Scale Sets (VMSS) to deliver highly scalable and dynamic secure remote access with automatically

managed connectivity and load sharing.

Visibility Check Point consolidates incoming log data

from the entire corporate infrastructure and substitutes cloud object names for IP addresses in order to enhance network

security visibility and forensics.

Context-aware management across cloud and on-premises infrastructures

Check Point Smart-1 unified management console is easy to use and customers

consistently rank it highly in the regular surveys that Check Point conducts. Security

policies can be enforced consistently and security events tracked easily across all networks no matter where they are.

https://pages.checkpoint.com/cloudguard-cloud-security-demo

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Industry leadership and global presence: Check Point has been recognized as a Leader in

the Gartner Magic Quadrant for network firewalls more than 20 times, including

recognition in the 2025 Magic Quadrant for Hybrid Mesh Firewalls and 100% security efficacy by CyberRatings.Org. Check Point

supports over 100,000 organizations worldwide. Its worldwide support organization includes Technical Assistance Centers in the United

States, Israel, Canada, Japan, India, China, and Australia, providing 24×7x365 global technical

support and professional services to customers around the world.

Total Cost of Ownership: Another area in which Check Point leads the

industry is its low-latency performance, which translates into a lower total cost

of ownership since fewer cloud compute resources are needed to achieve the

required throughput. Check Point can provide detailed TCO estimates for has

provided public guidance on the TCO and pricing of cloud firewalls .

Check Point operates in 88+ countries, with over 7,000 employees, 6500 global channel partners, and four global TACs (Technical Assistance Centers) which “follow the sun”, providing 24x365 global support.

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What do customers say? Customers utilizing security solutions are often hesitant to publicize their choice of vendor and product. They may be concerned that threat actors will use this information as a vector of attack, which is often the case when using security vendors with a high propensity for vulnerabilities in their own products.

As a result, satisfied customers who tell their story publicly are always a good indication of solution and vendor quality.

The table below provides customer stories for the top 10 considerations defined previously.

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Advanced Threat Prevention and Deep Security

BH Telecom receives all their cloud security needs in one solution, “from firewall filtering to IPS, to content filtering to antivirus. By combining everything, we can join the dots in our service offering.”

Customer Story

2 Borderless

Hallmark is a global ecommerce company that leverages Check Point Cloud Firewalls to secure their multi-cloud environment. See this video as they explain the value Check Point cloud integration makes to their DevOps capabilities and ultimately enhance their customer experience.

Customer Story

3 Granular Traffic Inspection and Control

Paschaolotto ran a comparison using two models in parallel (one with Check Point; one without) while under attack by various types of malware. CloudGuard, which protects all network layers, including the application layer (Layer 7), stopped application-based attacks that passed undetected without Check Point installed.

Customer Story

4 Automation

Openlink is very focused on automation and efficiency. “Check Point has always excelled in unified management—whether it’s two or two thousand instances. We’re currently working through orchestration and scripting to automate as many steps as possible. Our goal is to minimize the human resources needed to deploy new environment and manage the cloud."

Customer Story

5 Integration and Ease of Use

NHS Scotland benefits from Check Point seamless integration with their SIEM solution: “That means that we don’t have to go and actually start writing and creating configurations, it just links in and just automatically starts to work.”

Customer Story

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6 Visibility For Avianca, consolidated monitoring, logging and reporting give security teams immediate visibility into status and incidents— whether in the cloud, on-premises or across all environments.

Customer Story

7 Scalable, Secure Remote Access

Gas South planned to provide secure remote access to a small number of employees in early 2020, but after the first Covid lockdown, needed to support all employees working remotely. Fortunately Check Point supported this without any difficulty.

Customer Story

8 Context- aware Security Management

Invitalia no longer has to toggle between different security consoles to benefit from consistent visibility, policy management, logging, reporting, and control. Customer Story

9 Vendor Support and Industry Recognition

X by Orange assessed Check Point against strict criteria: “From an operational point of view, working with Check Point also gave us access to a wide network of first-class support across Spain." Customer Story

10 Total Cost of Ownership

With on-demand cloud and security infrastructure scalability, Xero can confidently ensure that peak usage periods deliver the high performance that customers expect. At the same time, during lulls in activity Xero is not paying for capacity that sits idle. AWS and Check Point enabled Xero to achieve its primary goals of reducing service delivery costs while assuring high service availability.

Customer Story

Check Point Cloud Firewall (formerly CloudGuard) has been a saving grace for Gas South. It is the only solution that gives us secure, stable, complete access to our critical applications and services in Azure.” – Rajiv Thomas, Senior Systems Engineer, Gas South

https://www.checkpoint.com/customer-stories/avianca/ https://www.checkpoint.com/customer-stories/gas-south/ https://www.checkpoint.com.cn/customer-stories/invitalia/index.html https://www.checkpoint.com/customer-stories/x-by-orange/ https://www.checkpoint.com/customer-stories/xero/

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How Check Point Extends Cloud Native Security Check Point is fully optimized for the cloud environment. It takes just minutes to deploy and configure Cloud Firewall as a Service gateways using automated cloud provider workflows and templates that can be customized to align with your corporate security ecosystem.

The Check Point Cloud Firewall as a Service seamlessly and deeply integrates with cloud native resiliency and scalability features, such as auto-scaling, failover, and high availability across multiple regions.

Each cloud provider offers tools and services to help its customers monitor and secure their cloud resources. The following table provides a sampling of some typical cloud provider tools.

CSP FIREWALLS

CLOUD MONITORING AND THREAT DETECTION

SECURITY CONSOLE

AWS

Security Groups

Network ACLs

AWS Network Firewall

Amazon GuardDuty

AWS CloudTrail Logs AWS Security Hub

Microsoft Azure Azure Firewall

Network Security Groups

Azure Defender

Azure Advanced Threat Protection

Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Microsoft Defender for Cloud

Microsoft Sentinel

Google Cloud Google Cloud Firewalls Event Threat Detection Cloud Security Command Center

Check Point Cloud Firewall as a Service enhances and complements the cloud provider security services

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What are the main areas where Check Point Cloud Firewall as a Service enhances and complements the cloud provider security services?

Cloud Firewall as a Service provides a self-service, automatic, adaptive solution that complements cloud native security constructs in order to prevent malicious activity in real time. Check Point delivers enterprise-grade security in the cloud, including fine matching granularity and control, deep inspection and advanced evasion protection, and proactive threat prevention against both known and unknown vulnerabilities. Key integration with CSP networking technologies like load balancers, peering, virtual routing, ensures simplicity, reliability, and non-disruptive, in-band cloud firewall service insertion.

Cloud Firewall as a Service also provides truly unified and multi-cloud management of cloud security and compliance from a single management console. After the initial connection, all cloud assets are automatically imported into the console, and changes to instance/VM attributes, such as IP, name, or location, are updated automatically in Check Point security policies and logs. In addition, cloud object names are used in both policies and logs for enhanced visibility and searching.

Cloud security is absolutely critical today as the 2025 Check Point Research security report finds: • 65% of organizations experienced a cloud-related security incident in the past year • Only 9% detected the incident within the first hour • Just 6% were able to remediate the incident within that first hour

Check Point Cloud Firewall as a Service provides unified, multi- cloud network security and compliance from a single console

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How Check Point Compares with the Competition This table compares Check Point Cloud Firewall as a Service and the cloud network security solutions of leading cloud security vendors:

CONSIDERATION Check Point Cloud Firewall as a Service CLOUD SECURITY COMPETITORS

1 Deep Security, Advanced Threat Prevention

Provides enterprise-grade threat extraction and sandboxing, including zero-day threats.

Provide threat extraction and sandbox capabilities but cannot block zero-day threats.

Check Point detects and prevents against a large number of risky apps and known vulnerabilities. 100% security efficacy and 99.9% successful block rate.

Competitors detect and prevent against fewer risky apps and CVEs, according to their own online publications.

2 Borderless

Supports the broadest range of public and private cloud providers, over 22 vendors including AWS, Azure Stack, Google Cloud, IBM Cloud, Alibaba Cloud, Huawei, Tencent, OpenStack, Nutanix, Microsoft Hyper-V and KVM.

Support a subset of these, at most 17 vendors. Often their integration with some cloud providers lacks depth and functionality (e.g., not integrated with VMware vCenter).

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Automation / Integration and Ease of Use (Licensing)

Customer-centric licensing: allows automatic license assignment per used cores in public cloud (BYOL), managed centrally or Pay as You Go (PAYGO)

Require manual license assignment, with no central management.

5 Integration and Ease of Use

Dynamic policies auto update with integration to cloud provider APIs and control planes to import and update asset/object name and tags.

Provides limited dynamic enforcement; objects must be created manually and then linked to a security policy.

Optimized for how real users work to solve real problems easily and efficiently: Testing shows that Cloud Firewall as a Service is easiest to use over standard cloud network security use cases.

To complete three standard cloud network security use cases, leading cloud network security vendors require on average 3-4 times longer, 4 times more mouse-clicks and 4-10 more menus navigated than CloudGuard. For details, please refer to the Agony Meter.

6 Visibility

Dynamically updated cloud instance names are used in logs, events, and reports.

Can search logs by VM/instance name along with MS Copilot generative AI-based search.

Cloud instances in logs, events and reports are identified by dynamic, hard-to-resolve IP.

Logs cannot be searched by VM/instance name.

9 Vendor Support and Industry Recognition

CyberRatings.Org gave Check Point 100% efficacy with Check Point leading all vendors in head-to-head comparisons.

Competitors received more Neutral and Caution ratings than Check Point. For more details, please refer to this document.

Check Point’s software is mature, with few vulnerabilities, and delivers timely fixes.

Competitors have significantly more SW vulnerabilities and take longer to fix these and require constant patching and maintenance

10 Total Cost of Ownership

For organizations with Check Point on-premises security that are migrating to the cloud, Check Point provides the easiest, quickest and most secure cloud network security with the lowest total cost of ownership.

Check Point has TCO calculators to help estimate cost savings and have published information that depict Check Point TCO much lower than it’s competitors.

Table 2: Comparison of Cloud Network Security Key Requirements

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In summary, Check Point stands out from its competitors for the following reasons:

• Most secure threat prevention with industry-leading catch rate of malware, ransomware and other types of attacks: Highest security effectiveness score with 100% block rate, 100% malware prevention, 100% exploit resistance and 0% false positives.

• Recognized as a long-term leader by third-party analysts: Leader on the 2025 Gartner Magic Quadrant for Hybrid Mesh Firewall, with over 30 years of security gateway intellectual property and cybersecurity technology innovation.

• Real-time detection and auto-remediation of known and unknown vulnerabilities.

• Ease of use when compared with its competitors - evidence is over 160 highly rated User Reviews

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• Automatic and dynamic enforcement of security policies consistently across complex hybrid and multi-cloud environments using cloud instance objects (Dynamic Policies)

• Very high level of interconnectivity and integrations throughout the enterprise ecosystem, including cloud native services, vulnerability scanners, and SIEM solutions.

• Seamless integration with WIZ CNAPP and Check Point WAF / AppSec, which automates application security and API protection, powered by contextual AI.

• 100% BLOCK RATE

• 100% MALWARE PREVENTION

• 100% EXPLOIT RESISTANCE

• 0% FALSE POSITIVES Check Point

Cloud Firewall as a Service

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Five Questions You Must Ask Cloud Security Vendors When an enterprise chooses a specialized cloud network security vendor, it expects a solution that is easy to deploy and scalable as well as one that visualizes the entire cloud network security environment, supports single-pane, policy-driven security management, enforces compliance best practices, and provides comprehensive real-time threat prevention and remediation.

With this in mind, here are five questions that you must ask cloud security vendors, or cloud providers with security services, as you consider which specialized cloud security solution is optimal for your organization:

Q1 How do you preempt cyber security attacks before they can harm our cloud assets? Being able to detect known threats in real time is no longer sufficient to protect cloud assets. Your cloud security solution must also be able to apply advanced threat intelligence, emulation and extraction techniques in order to provide real time detection of unknown zero-day threats. In addition, the solution must be able to demonstrate that it immediately and automatically neutralizes all detected threats (known or unknown) before they can compromise cloud-based applications and services and their data. Lastly, does the vendor have an industry-recognized security track record or are they not cybersecurity experts and relatively new to the security scene?

How do you support our security posture requirements? Whether or not your company is subject to formal regulatory laws or standards, compliance with data protection best practices is a critical business requirement these days. Your cloud security solution must make it easy to define security policies and enforce them consistently across your multicloud, hybrid architecture. Further, those policies must be automatically updated, with no need for human intervention, in order to keep pace with your dynamic and elastic cloud environment. Compliance monitoring must be continuous and alert your team to irregularities. And audit reports should be available at the click of a button.

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Can you give us a single source of cloud security truth and a single point of cloud security control? There are many cloud security stakeholders in your company, from security teams to line of business managers and C-suite executives. The solution must be able to provide a cross-organizational single source of truth of the current cloud security status in a highly visual and easy-to-read format. In addition, security teams must be able to centrally define, implement, and maintain security policies and gateways for all relevant cloud environments— public, private and hybrid—in a single, intuitive command and control interface.

Are we going to have to disrupt our current compliance and security practices and the tools that support them? You have invested heavily in your compliance and security programs. You have well-defined best practices and workflows and a well-functioning stack for vulnerability scanning, configuration and change management, asset management, infrastructure provisioning, and more. You need to be sure that your cloud security platform does not disrupt what is already in place but rather extends your current capabilities with deep and programmatic integration.

How can we be sure that you can continue to meet our cloud security requirements as they evolve over the long term? You are in it for the long haul and your cloud security vendor has to be a reliable partner. Here you need to look carefully at the vendor’s track record in terms of sustained investment in innovative intellectual property over time. They should be security thought leaders who anticipate trends and launch new products and features at the cutting edge. They should be recognized by industry watchers as significant players. And they should have a global support infrastructure that can provide real time responses to specific issues, as well as advisory guidance for your long-term strategies.

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BUYER’S GUIDE TO CLOUD NETWORK SECURITY

Summary and Calls to Action Generative AI and multi-cloud networks are revolutionizing the way we build and deploy applications.

Cloud migration, which is the process of migrating data and workloads from on-premises to a cloud computing environment, continues to be a major task with inherent risk, for IT teams. As part of this process, each organization must consider carefully how it will uphold security requirements in the cloud environment, especially their cloud network security.

The cloud providers offer some tools and services to help their customers monitor and secure their cloud resources; the Buyer’s Guide explains how Cloud Firewall as a Service enhances and complements these solutions.

Organizations using Check Point on-premises security gateways and in the process of migrating to the cloud with Check Point receive unified and consistent security management of all their on-premises and cloud environments and experience the most secure, easiest and quickest cloud migration, with lowest total cost of ownership. Organizations currently burdened with expensive maintenance of cloud firewalls or at undue business risk should consider implementing Check Point Cloud Firewall as a Service to secure their value cloud asserts.

Contact Check Point for more information to discuss your cloud security needs with a cloud security engineer or schedule a personalized demo of Cloud Firewall as a Service to understand the best and easiest way to protect your cloud assets.

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Introduction A Diverse Cloud Vendor Ecosystem to Secure The Top 10 Considerations for Advanced Threat Prevention and Deep Security Borderless Granular Traffic Inspection and Control Automation Integration and Ease of Use Visibility Scalable, Secure Remote Access Dynamic Policies / Context-aware Security Management Vendor Support and Industry Recognition Total Cost of Ownership

Check Point: Advanced Cloud Network Security The Key Cloud Firewall Features and Benefits are: Enterprise-grade, advanced, Borderless Integration with your existing tool stack Visibility What do customers say?

How Check Point Extends Cloud Native Security How Check Point Compares with the Competition Q1 How do you preempt cyber security attacks before they can harm our cloud assets? How do you support our security posture requirements? Can you give us a single source of cloud security truth and a single point of cloud security control? Are we going to have to disrupt our current compliance and security practices and the tools that support them? How can we be sure that you can continue to meet our cloud security requirements as

Summary and Calls to Action