CISO'S GUIDE TO AVOIDING THE NEXT BREACH

2CISO'S GUIDE TO AVOIDING THE NEXT BREACH

It ain’t easy being you. The role of a CISO is very demanding. First and foremost, you have to make sure your security is strong enough to withstand attacks that lead to breaches, all the while meeting increasingly stringent budget constraints.

That’s where Check Point Harmony SASE comes in. We want to make it easier for companies to provide robust security that’s easy to scale as needed, while reducing the total cost of ownership. All it takes from you is a willingness to let go of that antiquated VPN appliance guarding an increasingly non-existent perimeter.

The Challenge of Modern Network Security Most companies are a long way from the days of using exclusively on-prem resources. The sales team CRM is a SaaS app, the DevOps team has operational data in the public cloud, R&D is using GitHub or Bitbucket, and on and on it goes. Of course, the on-prem data centers are still a key part of the operation, but they’re augmented by SaaS applications and the public cloud.

That presents a real challenge for network security since company resources are no longer centralized. But it’s not just the resources that are distributed, your employees are also global. Modern companies can have employees in the U.S., the U.K., Singapore, as well as freelancers anywhere between India and Illinois.

If your company resources and employees are everywhere, shouldn’t your network security be too?

Right now, for many companies it’s not. Instead, they rely on a hardware VPN located at a data center that could be halfway around the world. Employees from all over connect for their on- prem needs and secure access to the Internet.

That just doesn’t make practical sense. Why backhaul Internet traffic halfway across the world when people could just connect through a gateway in their region? The on-prem approach creates laggy connections that unnecessarily lower employee productivity and raise general frustration levels. Employee needs are not served by a legacy solution with locations at a single, or at best, handful of locations.

The Answer for the Distributed Company If a legacy VPN isn’t the answer, then what is? Modern companies need a solution that provides fast access to the Internet and company resources with a network of globally distributed points of presence (PoPs). In addition, they need an easy way to segment resources that adds modern security enhancements such as continuous verification.

Add it all together and you get a security formula that reduces the risk of enduring a breach, and even if a determined attacker gets in their ability to achieve lateral movement will be greatly reduced.

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Zero Trust Network Access: A Collection of Technologies The centerpiece of a modern remote access and network security strategy is Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA). This isn’t so much a turnkey solution as much as it is a strategy. It combines secure connections, application-focused firewall rules, identity verification via a single sign-on provider with MFA, and customized (and continuous) device posture checks.

Harmony SASE’s ZTNA solution, Private Access, uses cloud-based components meaning you can set access rules from a single dashboard and see them instantly propagate across the network. In addition, we make it easy to set granular access rules by individual or group, and device posture checks can require that company devices are running a specific antivirus suite, a minimum operating system version, and more. Device rules are checked at regular intervals to make sure that the status of connected devices hasn’t changed. If they have, they are disconnected from the company resource.

As for unmanaged devices, Agentless ZTNA allows them to connect to specific applications through a web portal with support for applications using HTTP/S, RDP, and SSH.

ZTNA is one of the top defenses against breaches for a simple reason: very few people have access to the entire network. If an attacker

took over an employee account, they would only be able to access what the employee can— making lateral movement much harder.

CISOs and IT Managers can also reduce the threat of administrator accounts falling into the wrong hands with a higher degree of multi- factor authentication requirements, and careful log monitoring for unusual behavior from those accounts.

Protect Users Online While ZTNA goes a long way toward keeping company resources secure, web security should also be a major concern. If malware infects your network, the most likely delivery method will be the web. This could be anything from an infected download from webmail to a malicious ad or website.

To combat these threats, Harmony SASE offers secure Internet Access with web filtering and malware protection. The former restricts access to websites by employees on managed devices. We offer general prevention categories such as gambling or social media sites, known phishing sites, and other undesirable web destinations.

Malware protection, meanwhile, protects employee devices from harmful code delivered via the web whether they’re connected to the company network, or not.

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Avoiding the Next Breach With a set of solid ZTNA access rules backed up by continuous verification and MFA from your SSO provider, getting into the network becomes much harder. Even with a set of employee credentials, breaching is difficult since there are so many obstacles to overcome. But even if threat actors overcome all these challenges, they will not have access to the complete network thanks to ZTNA. They will only have access to what the employee can access. That, at the very least, will restrict the amount of data a threat actor can extract.

On the Agentless ZTNA side, you can help prevent the misuse of credentials by adding context rules such as time of day and regions from which access is permitted.

Finally, Internet Access helps protect against threats that could lead to a data breach such as ransomware, keyloggers and other spyware, and trojans.

Cloud Secured and Delivered In addition to the basic tools, Harmony SASE’s cloud-delivered solution lets you control everything from a centralized dashboard inside Check Point’s Infinity Portal. This allows you to quickly and easily update access and device posture rules, monitor network activity, spin up or down new gateways, and view logs or integrate them with your SIEM solution for automated security monitoring.

Our lightning-fast deployment will get smaller companies up and running in under an hour, while mid-size enterprises can be ready to go in a few days. Since there’s little hardware to purchase you reduce maintenance and training costs, and scaling up to meet your growing needs is as easy as a few clicks.

Finally, all of this is available at a significantly lower cost than a hardware solution with no long-term commitment required.

Ready to give it a try? Book a demo with a Harmony SASE network expert today.

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Meet Harmony SASE 2x Faster Internet Security | Full Mesh Private Access | Secure SD-WAN

The internet is the new corporate network, leading organizations to transition to SASE. However current solutions break the user experience with slow connections and complex management.

Harmony SASE is a game-changing solution that delivers 2x faster internet security combined with full mesh Zero Trust Access and optimized SD-WAN performance—all with an emphasis on ease-of-use and streamlined management.

Combining innovative on-device and cloud-delivered network protections, Harmony SASE offers a local browsing experience with tighter security and privacy, and an identity-centric zero trust access policy that accommodates everyone: employees, BYOD and third parties. Its SD-WAN solution unifies industry- leading threat prevention with optimized connectivity, automated steering for over 10,000 applications and seamless link failover for uninterrupted web conferencing.

Harmony SASE enables any business to build a secure corporate network over a private global backbone in less than an hour. The service is managed from a unified console and is backed by an award-winning global support team that has you covered 24/7.

Harmony SASE is part of the Harmony for Workspace Suite. Harmony helps organizations of all sizes secure their workspaces with a suite of products including SASE, SaaS protection, email security, endpoint and mobile protection, and in-browser security.

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