eBook | Guide to Hyperscale Network Security

This eBook explores the challenges organizations face in achieving 99.999% resilience while ensuring network security systems can scale to meet dynamic demands. It contrasts traditional high-availability firewall designs with modern hyperscale network security approaches, highlighting Check Point solutions for resilient and scalable protection.

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THE GUIDE TO

HYPERSCALE NETWORK SECURITY Learn how modern high-availability firewall clusters provide maximum security, resilience, and scalability for enterprises, e-commerce sites, service providers, data centers, and more.

Contents

Introduction: Achieving Maximum Security Resilience 3

The Challenges with Traditional High Availability (HA) Designs 4

Modern, Scalable Network Security Resilience 7

Check Point’s Intelligent HA and Hyperscale Network Security 10

Maestro’s Key Benefits at a Glance 12

Manage Risks Effectively Across On-Premises and Cloud with Consolidated Threat Prevention 16

The Advantages of a Consolidated Single-Vendor Architecture 18

Summary & Getting Started 20

Introduction: Achieving Maximum Security Resilience

Modern organizations need robust cyber security to protect their critical systems. At the same time, their security needs to scale performance up or down as network requirements change.

Unfortunately, most organizations still rely on 15+ year old designs that use classic high availability (HA) firewall clustering to achieve a degree of resilience and failover - at the cost of overbuilding infrastructure that sits idle and is more complex.

In this paper, we’ll discuss the challenges in achieving 99.999% resilience and the key benefits of adopting hyperscale network security.

Resilience is a measure of a security system’s ability to maintain critical capabilities quickly and effectively when faced with adverse events and conditions. Implicit in this definition is the idea that adverse events and conditions will occur. Therefore, system resilience is a system’s ability to detect, respond and recover when the unexpected happens.

Examples:

• Power, component, or application failures • Excessive loads in network traffic • Cyber threats or attacks • Configuration faults or errors • Lost or degraded communication with a connected system

Real-world examples include mass scale events that require on- site staff to work from home, seasonal or unpredictable bursts of application traffic, a power blackout, a cut network cable or a new zero-day vulnerability targeting critical applications. Smart organizations prepare and weigh the risk of these occurrences by designing and deploying resilient systems. The most basic designs eliminate single points of failure, yet often overlook the inability of their systems to easily scale capacity and manage increased load on the system.

This paper provides an overview of approaches for building resilient and scalable network security, starting with a review of High Availability (HA) firewalls and the different ways they can be configured to ensure resilience and graceful failover. We compare traditional HA firewalls with modern hyperscale network security which enables cloud-like elasticity and scalability for on premises environments and private clouds.

Finally, we discuss Check Point solutions for enterprises and service providers who need highly resilient and scalable network security solutions.

• N+M: This configuration has more than one backup node, providing more redundancy than the N+1 setup.

• N to N: This is a combination of Active/Active and N+M redundancy. This type of cluster load balances the duties of failed nodes across the other nodes, but without the limitations of a 1:1 mapping.

Redundancy is accomplished by synchronizing connections between firewalls in a cluster, using a heartbeat connection. This informs one firewall if another firewall has failed. If this occurs, the redundant firewall can seamlessly take responsibility for the existing connections (i.e. graceful failover), providing continuous network protection without interruption.

The Challenges with Traditional High Availability (HA) Designs

High Availability (HA) firewall clusters are designed to minimize downtime for critical systems through the use of redundant systems. The goal of a HA firewall deployment is to eliminate single points of failure within an organization’s network infrastructure. Instead of using a single firewall to protect the network, two or more firewalls are deployed in a group as a cluster.

Clustering Options for Failover and Redundancy

HA firewalls can maximize the availability of critical services using various clustering node configurations. Common configurations include:

Clustering Node Configurations

• Active/Passive: Each active node has a redundant firewall that only comes online if the active node goes down.

• Active/Active: This configuration has multiple active nodes. If one node goes down, its traffic will be reassigned to a different active node.

Levels of Redundancy

• N+1: This mode has at least one backup node for a group of N active nodes. If an active node goes down, the backup node assumes the duties.

Figure 1: Active-Active vs Active-Passive Firewall Clusters

Load Balancing and Load Sharing for Maximum Security Performance

Load balancing implies that all nodes in the system are active all of the time. In addition to Active/Passive, most firewall vendors also offer an Active/Active solution which shares the aggregate traffic load across the cluster members using a load balancing technology.

This can limit the ability to scale beyond a certain number of firewall members within the cluster. Distributing traffic (load balancing) across firewalls requires some management overhead which can impact the firewall’s performance. The load sharing management overhead increases as members are added to the cluster. Therefore, there can be a tradeoff depending on the network and security design.

Figure 2: Load balancing single-vendor solution

However, this approach creates additional firewall management challenges, including asymmetric routing and managing encrypted traffic (see below). Another challenge is that multiple products, i.e. the Load Balancers and the firewalls, increase the initial capital expense and the time and resources to manage and maintain the more complex solution.

The Problem with Asymmetric Routing

Asymmetric routing, simply stated, happens when packets of a session have different Forward and Return paths. The problem with asymmetric routing is that network devices such as firewalls must track the state information of packets, e.g., is the packet a first handshake or mid- stream in an established connection?

For instance, a packet that exits a network through Firewall-A but returns to the network through another Firewall-B will get dropped on the return route because Firewall-B has no state information for the packet. Other traffic such as VPNs (encryption) and NAT also work more seamlessly when the Forward and Return paths are the same, or symmetric.

Another alternative to a single-vendor Active/Active load sharing cluster, is to deploy multiple firewalls “sandwiched” between Server Load Balancers, also called Application Delivery Controllers (ADC). In this architecture, network traffic is load balanced across the group of firewalls, providing a scalable and highly available security infrastructure. The Server Load Balancers direct traffic equally across the firewall members of the cluster. In general provides numerous benefits, including:

• Availability: Load balancing used as part of an HA cluster helps to reduce or eliminate downtime caused by node failures.

• Scalability: ADCs can distribute traffic across multiple nodes, allowing the cluster to process more traffic than any single appliance can handle.

• Performance: Load balancing can improve performance by sending traffic to the best available node in the cluster.

• Management: Load balancing can provide management benefits, such as zero-downtime maintenance.

Challenges with Separate Load Balancing Solutions

In order to implement configurations that are dependent on separate load balancing, they must be deployed in front of and behind the firewall cluster.

Figure 3: Server load balancing cluster solution

Modern, Scalable Network Security Resilience

A Short History of Hyperscale Computing & Networking

Hyperscale networking offers the best of three worlds - full high availability, intelligent load balancing, and orchestration. It is the ability of an architecture to scale seamlessly as increased demand is added to the system. This involves the ability to quickly provision and add more resources to the system that make up a larger distributed computing environment.

Hyperscale is necessary to build a robust and scalable system. In other words, it is the tight integration of storage, compute, and virtualization layers of an infrastructure into a single solution architecture. For example, a big data analytics project might be most economically addressed through the scale and computing density available in Hyperscale. Rapid deployment and automated management capabilities make scaling-out simple and hassle free for organizations of all sizes. By tightly integrating networking and compute resources in a software-defined system, all available hardware resources can be fully utilized. By orchestrating resources in an innovative way, organizations can get much more from the IT infrastructure they already have.

Hyperscale systems are in high demand and are being increasingly adopted across IT departments. The IT and networking industry has a big interest in securing private clouds while also emulating the operational flexibility and agility of public cloud services.

The turning point for Hyperscale architecture was the ability to combine all components needed to simply plug-and-play and create virtual machines on the fly.

This was made possible when hypervisors entered the game. Today, many organizations can get the benefits of the cloud, but without the cloud.

Comparing Multi-Vendor approach vs. a consolidated Single- Vendor design

The traditional practice of buying and integrating multiple components from multiple vendors can take months to configure and install. And, troubleshooting system issues in real-time can become a nightmare with finger pointing between multiple vendors and service providers. Fortunately, a Hyperscale network solution can be implemented in weeks and sometimes even days. Since everything is orchestrated as one unified system, the complexity of managing and securing a data center or private cloud environment is significantly decreased.

Key Benefits of Hyperscale Network Security

• Hyperscalability: Scale up existing firewall systems of any size, on-demand, supporting over 10x to 50x the original throughput, within minutes. Expansion is seamless and protects an organization’s existing investments.

• Operational Simplicity: All firewalls are centrally managed as one unified security system, minimizing management overhead. This enables organizations to add new firewalls to quickly scale-out capacity, without needing to reconfigure the overall cluster.

• Cloud-Level Resiliency: Any customer who requires on-premises systems and resources to be highly available and wants built-in safeguards to prevent downtime will benefit from the modern equivalent of a simple clustering solution. For example, an Active/ Passive configuration.

• Cost Efficiency: Maximizing firewall investment can be accomplished with an efficient N+1 clustering deployment under one unified system. This approach delivers both high resiliency and maximum cost efficiency by fully using all hardware resources. i.e. no stranded CAPEX investment in passive standby firewalls.

Who Needs Resilient, Hyperscale Firewall Protection?

Whether starting out, or already a firmly established enterprise, a Hyperscale Network Security solution is the best way to secure and protect an organization’s current and future investments. Being able to start with existing security implementations, no matter how small, businesses of all sizes can scale their protection almost infinitely according to their changing business needs. Scenarios where highly resilient, load balancing, scalable firewall architectures are valuable include:

• Perimeter security where demand fluctuates unpredictably, and zero downtime is a required SLA*

• Datacenters and service provider environments requiring 99.999% uptime to meet customer SLAs

• E-commerce environments where network demand surges at both expected and unexpected times

• Financial transactions where very high volume and extremely low latency are required

• Critical infrastructures (national government agencies, utilities, transportation, communications, etc.)

• Media companies that host hundreds of thousands or multi- million audiences (sports, events, etc.)

• Organizations that do massive daily back-ups requiring multi- terabyte data transfers

• Small or start-up environments that need flexiblity and agility to grow easily over time

* (SLA) Service Level Agreement

Figure 4: Common applications for hyperscale network security

Check Point’s Intelligent HA and Hyperscale Network Security Check Point offers multiple solutions for customers looking to deploy HA firewalls and implement load balancing with Hyperscale network security capabilities.

OPTION 1 HA with Intelligent Load Balancing Integrated into the Standalone Firewalls

If an organization wants to implement a simple HA firewall cluster with up to 5 nodes, this can be accomplished using Check Point’s built-in HA and load sharing functionality. Check Point offers a wide range of firewalls. To implement this design, choose a firewall model that meets current and future throughput and security needs. In general, this approach is fine for customers who have a relatively static environment yet want a resilient HA solution.

To help customers with the process of selecting the right sized firewall for a relatively static environment, Check Point offers its Channel Partners access to an appliance sizing tool to identify models that match current requirements and provide sufficient room for growth.

These HA solutions will work dependably for customers who don’t anticipate high growth in their throughput or security needs, over a three-to-five-year planning period. At the end of this period, the firewalls can be migrated to other areas and replaced with newer models that meet new requirements at that time.

OPTION 2 Hyperscale for the Most Demanding Environments with Check Point Maestro

Check Point’s Quantum Maestro is a High-Availability firewall clustering solution that delivers fully integrated, scalable, intelligent load balancing that does not require third party Server Load Balancers. With Maestro, multiple firewalls can operate as a single unified system.

Maestro is ideal for both entry-level firewall clustering and service provider scale private cloud environments. A base-level Maestro configuration includes a Hyperscale Orchestrator plus two or three firewalls. Additional firewalls can be added as needed to seamlessly scale security throughput from 30 Gbps to 3 Terabps in a single system. Additionally, one or more Maestro Hyperscale Orchestrators distribute internal and external network traffic equally across multiple firewalls managed as a single group, or cluster, with a common security feature set and policy, also called a Security Group.

Additional security compute is easily added via the Maestro Web UI or dynamically – all while minimizing the risk of downtime and maximizing cost-efficiency.

Figure 5: Small HA Cluster with individual firewalls vs a Hyperscale Maestro cluster with maximum resiliency and load balancing

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Maestro’s Key Benefits at a Glance

Intelligent N+1 Clustering: Maestro distributes both internal and external network traffic across multiple Quantum Firewalls using Check Point HyperSync technology. HyperSync tracks the Active/Backup state of group members.

Segmentation: Create logical Security Groups to enable segmentation of an organization’s network. Firewalls in a Security Group automatically maintain a common security configuration, policy, and feature set - making this architecture much easier to manage than other approaches.

Scalability: Maestro can be deployed with as few as two firewalls, and additional nodes can be added to support up to 3 Tbps of firewall throughput or up to 1 Tbps of Layer 1 - 7 advanced threat prevention throughput.

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Load Balancing: Maestro implements load balancing without the need for a third party Server Load Balancer. This greatly simplifies management and decreases the Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) of a load-balanced firewall cluster.

Muti-Tenancy: Maestro’s powerful security management is the gold-standard of managed security services provider (MSSP) delivery platforms.

Whether managing multiple internal corporate divisions or managing a wide variety of large and small external customers, Maestro provides unprecedented flexibility for MSPs who need to completely segment customers and manage their security in a highly customized way.

Maestro Feature Summary

• Scalability: Maestro is a revolutionary private cloud architecture that enables organizations of any size to enjoy the power of flexible cloud-level security platforms. As security demands change, Maestro seamlessly expands existing security cluster performance from 30 Gigabits per second to Terabits per second throughput. This is particularly important for data center environments that need to support regular terabyte backups and manage very large file transfers that can create network congestion (“elephant flows’) that most firewalls cannot handle.

• Resilience: Maestro HyperSync clustering technology provides full redundancy within a system. At the same time, traffic is balanced across all logical Security Group members, ensuring all hardware resources are fully utilized. Within a Security Group each connection is synchronized between two security group members, an Active and a Backup member, ensuring there is not a single point of failure. This reduces the overhead caused by the sync traffic within the system.

• Security Groups: Security Groups enable enterprises and MSPs to create segmented private cloud instances to serve multiple clients or business functions. For example, one cluster can be dedicated to advanced threat prevention for perimeter or end user security while another group protects trusted data center lateral traffic with stateful firewall inspection at maximum throughputs.

• Single Management Object (SMO): Externally, a Security Group is seen as one security gateway or Virtual System (VSX) gateway object in the Check Point security management GUI client, SmartConsole. A single IP address per Security Group for management communications and policy install greatly simplifies Security Group management. All configurations, e.g. interfaces or IP addresses and routes are mirrored on gateways in the Security Group. Prior to becoming an online member and actively handling traffic, each new member of the Security Group synchronizes its image, software configuration and security policy with the SMO of the Security Group.

• Auto-scale: For critical applications that need consistent high performance, Maestro dynamic auto-scaling automatically moves firewalls from security groups where the firewalls have low CPU utilization to another group where the members are heavily taxed. Administrators set upper and lower operating limits. Maestro then enables extremely fast and easy expansion or contraction by virtually adding or removing firewalls automatically within minutes to match the scale configurations. This saves organizations significant time, complexity, and staffing costs.

• Fast-forwarding: With Maestro Fast-forwarding, throughput and latency are significantly improved for trusted traffic that does not require advanced threat prevention, even within a cluster that also requires advanced threat prevention inspection. Maestro Fast-forwarding offloads Accept or Drop policy rules to the Maestro Orchestrator for port line-rate throughput and ultra-low latency for selected connections. This frees the cluster firewall members to do deep packet inspection of all other traffic.

Maestro Feature Summary

• Dual Site: Separate Maestro systems can synchronize Security Groups across the systems to have a second backup or standby Maestro site at another location.

Maestro Feature Summary

• Hyper-fast Network Security for Data Centers: Quantum Force firewalls are perfect for data center applications. These firewalls offer nearly line-rate 100 Gbps port speed firewall inspection, and up to 1,000 Gbps of firewall throughput per appliance at ultra-low latency. And they deliver up to 75 Gbps of Layer 1-7 threat prevention per appliance for Deep Packet Inspection.

• Advanced Threat Prevention for Uncompromising Security: Quantum firewalls also protect the company perimeter and end users from known as well as unknown zero-day threats. Key security technologies include Firewall, VPN, Data Loss Prevention, Application Control, URL Filtering, Intrusion Prevention System (IPS), Antivirus, Anti-Bot, Zero-day Phishing prevention, the latest DNS security and Check Point’s SandBlast. Check Point offers three main software bundles that build up feature sets from Next Generation FIrewall (NGFW), to Next Generation Threat Prevention (NGTP), and the comprehensive SandBlast (SNBT) that includes all capabilities from the NFGW and NGTP bundles. SandBlast includes sandboxing technology which emulates files in a cloud virtual environment and includes Content Disarm & Reconstruction technology to ensure users get only safe content while the files are emulated. All of these combined security capabilities means that Check Point blocks even the most evasive and advanced threats – keeping organizations worldwide safe and online. Figure 6: Active & Failover systems provide full redundancy

Figure 7: Check Point firewall software bundles overview

Check Point offers Comprehensive Advanced Security

Manage Risks Effectively Across On-Premises and Cloud with Consolidated Threat Prevention

Evolving from Reactive to Proactive Cyber Security

Cyber hackers have evolved to using advanced technologies, including AI and internet bots, to attack at scale from multiple vectors simultaneously. This allows them to quickly infect large numbers of enterprises. In fact, the first 24 hours of an attack is the most critical time to identify and block attacks before they can cause widespread damage within an organization. Traditional firewall architectures are no match for the modern threat landscape, as they only filter network traffic based on pre-defined rules, signatures, and known vulnerabilities. Threat actors utilize a combination of techniques to penetrate an organization’s network, including phishing attacks, polymorphic malware that changes with time, encrypted traffic, and zero-day exploits that often cannot be detected by conventional firewall technologies. For effective cyber defense, organizations need a multi-faceted approach that shifts the operating model from reactive fire-drills to proactive security.

Check Point leverages the power of AI, cloud, and global threat intelligence across its entire security portfolio to quickly block attacks, and innovate new capabilities including IoT Security, SD- WAN network optimization, and cloud event correlation - to name a few. ThreatCloud AI, Check Point’s cloud-based global threat intelligence platform, employs sophisticated analytics engines to provide real-time intelligence to customers. Emerging threat information is fed from multiple trusted sources, including third- party intelligence feeds. ThreatCloud AI is the ‘brain’ behind all Check Point security products and services.

Innovative technologies and big data threat intelligence are used to block the most advanced attacks while minimizing false positives - keeping organizations safe and productive. ThreatCloud AI aggregates and analyzes big data telemetry including millions of indicators of compromise (IoCs) every day. Its threat intelligence database is fed by over 150,000 connected networks, millions of endpoint devices, dozens of external feeds, and equally important, Check Point’s own cyber security expert research organization (CPR).

Another key threat intelligence source is Check Point’s SandBlast technology. This provides organizations with realtime sandboxing by running any potentially malicious code in a fully protected virtual environment to detect unknown and Zero-day threats. While file content is analyzed and emulated, Check Point firewalls deliver a sanitized version of documents enabling users to safely continue with their work.

Check Point’s network security also delivers SD-WAN, DNS security, Zero-day phishing prevention, and autonomous IoT Zero- trust security. Check Point utilizes AI to identify all unmanaged IoT devices on a customer’s network and can recommend or automatically apply security profiles to limit the IoT device access to only essential services. With Check Point, organizations have the power to proactively secure their networks, increase their threat detection accuracy, gain greater visibility across their estate, and increase security team productivity through automation. Check Point Research (CPR) produces an extensive annual Cyber Security Report.

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Securing Cloud-native Applications and Workloads

In addition to on-premises network security, Check Point also provides advanced cloud-native security with CloudGuard solutions that leverage the same underlying security operating system and Layer 1-7 advanced security as Check Point Quantum firewalls, but for cloud environments. CloudGuard is an ideal complement to Check Point on-premises security. CloudGuard Network makes it easy to extend award-winning Quantum on-premises network security and management to public, private and hybrid clouds. With the need to shift workloads to the cloud and the modernization of hybrid datacenters, ensuring effective cloud-native security across a full range of applications, workloads, and networks is critical. CloudGuard provides automated security and advanced threat prevention to protect cloud assets and workloads from the most sophisticated cyber attacks. Together, CloudGuard and Quantum network security enable organizations of all sizes to secure their entire estate from on-pemises to cloud and hybrid datacenter environments with one unified security platform.

Check Point’s Web Application Firewall

CloudGuard WAF is a cloud-native Web & API security solution that provides precise threat prevention using contextual AI to protect your Apps against known and unknown threats, without relying on signatures. CloudGuard WAF also protects your APIs by identifying and analyzing all of your APIs, including Shadow APIs, Rogue APIs, Zombie APIs, and deprecated endpoints. This enables you to take control of your attack surface and reduce the risk of breaches.

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Advantages of a Unified Firewall Cluster Architecture

As enterprises continue to grapple with a rapidly expanding network perimeter, one of their biggest challenges can be managing multiple point-products or vendors. To stay safe in today’s complex threat landscape, cyber security requires an integrated and consolidated approach that covers all the bases, from endpoint to data center to cloud. While this is technically achievable with a multi-vendor approach, it may not be viable for organizations that need to take a long-term, streamlined, operationally scalable, and cost-effective approach to security.

Patching together disparate solutions from multiple vendors can lead to poor security posture visibility and gaps between the protections that each product delivers. This in turn results in more complexity (and higher costs) of managing multiple vendor relationships.

Consolidation offers a strong solution and Check Point has the first modern, consolidated security platform specifically designed to guard against modern-day threats such as zero-day and fifth- generation attacks across the network, cloud, data centers, endpoints, and remote users. As a unique differentiator, customers can purchase a flexible enterprise license agreement (ELA) for both hardware and software solutions, and then tailor their security products as needed to protect their organization.

Every 24 hours, Check Point ThreatCloud AI (Global Threat Intelligence) • Analyzes over 2 billion websites and files • Performs 30 million file emulations • Captures updated on nearly 2 million malicious indicators

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Getting Started with Maestro

Data centers and other demanding environments will benefit from a highly resilient, load balancing, scalable firewall architecture. Maestro is also designed for businesses of all sizes who want to scale their protection according to their changing business needs – or who simply want a highly resilient system today.

Consider a company just starting out that is unsure of the capacity they will need in three to five years, but cyber security resilience is important for them today. Maestro offers this at an affordable price and superior price-performance. They can choose a firewall in a Maestro solution that meets their current network, security, and budget requirements at a lower overall cost than a similar, but less capable Active/ Passive firewall configuration. As demands increase, Maestro enables organizations to easily later add a new generation of firewalls alongside their original firewalls in the same cluster. Maestro intelligently distributes traffic according to the capabilities and performance of different firewalls in the security group. This ensures there is an appropriate and balanced load across the cluster members at all times.

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Why Traditional Firewalls Hold You Back

• Single Points of Failure: Unexpected Downtime

• Fixed Capacity: Cannot Handle Unpredictable Spikes

• Complex Multi-Tenancy: Inconsistent Security Enforcement

• Painful Upgrades: Long Service Windows & Risk

Customer Benefits with Maestro

• Always-On: 99.999% uptime. No single point of failure

• Elastic Performance: Scale from 60 Gbps to 1,000 Gbps without disruption. No gaps during traffic spikes.

• Intelligent Load Sharing: Security resources adjust automatically

• Simplified Operations: In-service upgrades. No forklift swaps.True multi-tenancy: Isolate and enforce zero trust

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