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Today’s local and national government agencies face increasing pressure to implement digital transformation and provide better app and online services to their citizen. Maximizing resources and mitigating operational inefficiencies are driving migration to the cloud. But as sensitive workloads are migrated to the cloud, security teams can be overwhelmed by alerts from multiple security vendors. Organizations must address critical issues while ensuring trusted access control, maintaining security policy, and launching applications and public services that keep citizens’ sensitive personal data safe and private.

Governmental organizations must balance security and digital transformation

Automate security throughout digital transformation efforts Check Point CloudGuard Network Security and CloudGuard CNAPP solutions enable municipalities and government agencies to 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 public sector 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, keeping applications, personal data, and workloads secure.

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 public sector 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 public sector organizations across your AWS Cloud.

Benefits

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Check Point CloudGuard on AWS Thousands of state, local, and national government agencies 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 security issues. As an AWS Software 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: Municipality of Ramat-Gan

Challenge

With dual challenges of digital transformation and growth, Ramat-Gan had to add support for 50,000 new residents. The team had to replace aging com- munications systems, then launch new applications to support service delivery, connectivity, and other projects. In addition, the city is constantly under cyberattack, and the team searched for a platform that could withstand nation-state attacks.

Solution

The team is migrating on-premises infrastructure to the AWS public cloud. CloudGuard Network Security allows the city to manage physical and cloud security gateways from a single console. In addition, CloudGuard CNAPP protects the municipal applications, safeguarding citizens’ data as Ramat-Gan’s residents use and pay for services with the new applications.

Results

Ramat-Gan’s IT team now has the tools to securely bring data and resources to the cloud and launch innovative applications. With Check Point’s comprehensive protection, the team can enable essential services without slowing delivery. “With Check Point CloudGuard, I have peace of mind knowing we can launch applications and store highly sensitive citizen and operational data in the cloud without worry,” said Kobi Noah, Chief Information Officer of the Ramat-Gan municipality.

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