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Today’s financial services institutions (FSIs) face increasing pressure to create seamless online and mobile app experiences. Rapid code deployment is essential to modernizing cloud-native applications, but this can broaden the surface area for potential cyberattacks. Additionally, as organizations migrate sensitive workloads to the cloud, security and compliance teams can be overwhelmed by alerts from multiple security vendors. Organizations must address critical issues while ensuring trusted access control, maintaining security policy, and monitoring strict and often shifting federal and region-specific regulations like PCI-DSS, GDPR, FISC rule-sets, and regional compliance.

Financial services organizations must balance security, compliance, and efficiency

Automate security and gain context throughout the app lifecycle Check Point CloudGuard Network Security and CloudGuard CNAPP help FSIs drive actionable security and advanced threat prevention with unified management across applications and workloads. Tight integration with Amazon Web Services (AWS) security offerings allows for advanced insight, automated remediation, posture management, and compliance—all from a single platform.

Cloud-native security for financial services with Check Point CloudGuard and AWS

Benefits

Advanced protection: Secure North-South and East-West traffic using industry-leading threat prevention technologies with the highest catch rate of malware, ransomware, and other types of attacks.

Automated network security: Support rapid deployment, agility, and automation of CI/CD workflows through integrations with leading configuration management tools.

Unified security management: Extend on-premises security posture to the cloud easily, quickly, and intuitively with consistent policy across on-premises and private-cloud environments.

CloudGuard Network Security unifies cloud security across your AWS estate to prevent the most sophisticated cyberattacks across banking, payment processing, mobile banking apps, and financial services.

More context: Gain deeper security intelligence throughout app lifecycles and across cloud environments thanks to custom risk management guidelines and AWS integrations.

Actionable security: Allow security teams to focus on the most urgent 1% of security risks for FSI organizations, based on contextual analysis from AI and risk scoring—then automate the rest.

Smarter prevention: Elevate security throughout the app lifecycle with risk prevention early in the development pipeline or actionable guidance during production to correct misconfigurations and permissions.

CloudGuard CNAPP enhances security posture, manages compliance, and reduces risk, providing essential cloud-native application visibility for financial services organizations across your AWS Cloud.

Benefits

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Check Point CloudGuard on AWS Thousands of FSIs across the globe rely on AWS for modernizing IT workloads and migrating to a secure cloud environment. Check Point provides cloud security that enhances native AWS controls with threat prevention, zero-day protection, and increased visibility into potential data breaches. As an AWS Advanced Technology Partner, Check Point offers more than 50 trusted integrations across AWS services, such as AWS Lambda and Amazon Macie. Deploy CloudGuard solutions directly from AWS Marketplace and instantly access a catalog of pre-built CloudFormation templates to simplify and streamline compliance processes.

Features ✔ Development pipeline security allows DevOps teams

to speed time to market and deploy code at scale without jeopardizing security posture.

✔ Compliance and governance templates help automate workflows, update rulesets, and enable collaboration across departments and third-party cloud environments.

✔ Contextual risk management engine supports decision-making with actionable insights based on custom or built-in risk scoring guidelines.

✔ Runtime protection for container and serverless workloads through AWS Lambda integrations help assess vulnerabilities and optimize the security of serverless functions.

✔ Data Security Posture Management (DSPM) and Amazon Macie integrations elevate risk scoring, accounting for the sensitivity of Amazon Simple Storage Service (Amazon S3) buckets.

Case Study: Volkswagen Financial Services Challenge

Volkswagen Financial Services (VWFS) is the financing arm for one of the world’s largest automobile manufacturers. Its digital team knows the importance of fast and flexible mobile apps in a competitive market. However, security and compliance can be complex in a large-scale AWS environment with over 1,500 accounts and 350 production workloads.

Solution

Check Point CloudGuard CNAPP allowed VWFS to build a custom control framework based on internal and external regulations. Automated alerts on security events and potential threats simplify in- depth analysis to complement AWS native security and compliance services such as Amazon GuardDuty, Amazon Inspector, AWS Trusted Advisor, and Amazon Macie.

Results

VWFS now has a sustainable, unified cloud security platform to score and assess applications in seconds based on its custom control frameworks. DevOps and security teams can streamline deployment and approval processes, reducing manual effort and increasing cost savings potential, which can now be invested into building new features for customers.

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