White Paper | Securing AWS Networks with Check Point Cloud Firewall

Check Point Cloud Firewall delivers unified, AI‑driven security across multi‑cloud, hybrid, and on‑premises environments, providing consistent access control, threat prevention, and centralized management.

/live_board/v2/downloads?uid=9d657fe0-0c15-45da-8395-bd8783ecace9&redirect=true

Introduction

As organizations embrace multi-cloud and hybrid infrastructures, securing the network has become exponentially more complex. The cloud’s promise of agility and scalability also introduces a dynamic, fragmented perimeter made up of disparate platforms, identities, and services. In this environment, traditional security models fall short. This paper explores how Check Point Cloud Firewall delivers unified protection across cloud and on-premises environments.

Through a cloud-adapted hybrid mesh firewall architecture, Check Point enforces consistent access control, prevents advanced threats with AI-driven intelligence, and scales security alongside dynamic workloads.

Whether you're modernizing your data center, expanding into new clouds, or consolidating network security, Check Point provides the visibility, control, and intelligence needed to prevent breaches before they happen.

Drawing from real-world use cases across AWS, public cloud, Nutanix, and other private cloud environments, this paper outlines best practices for securing East-West and North-South traffic, protecting cloud-native services, and simplifying operations through centralized management and automation.

Securing AWS Networks with Check Point Cloud Firewall

Best Practices and Use Cases for Unified Security in AWS and Beyond

SECURING AWS NETWORKS WITH CHECK POINT UNIQUE CHALLENGES OF CLOUD NETWORKS 1

Unique Challenges of Cloud Networks Cloud environments bring agility and scale but also introduce complexity and an expanded attack surface. The risks don’t stop at the public cloud. They span across private clouds, hybrid infrastructures, remote users, and on-premises data centers. This makes cloud network security the foundation of any modern, multi-layered defense strategy.

The Cloud Prevention Mesh: Securing All Entry Points • The Front Door (Internet Edge) is the entry point for public-facing applications and SaaS

platforms.

• The Service Door (Enterprise Access Gateway) is the entry point used by corporate users as well as privileged connections to on-prem environments and other clouds.

• The Cloud Internals (East-West Traffic): Cloud hosted workloads and data with their internal lateral traffic.

Why Organizations Choose Check Point Hybrid Mesh Firewalls Check Point hybrid mesh cloud firewalls are key to implementing cloud security that is both adaptive and unified by addressing three critical needs across multi-cloud deployments: access control, threat prevention, and cloud-native scalability – which will be explored in this chapter.

HTTP / API

TCP, UDP…

VPN

Cloud WAN

Cloud Internals E/W Traffic

“Front Door” (Internet Edge)

“Service Door” (Enterprise Access Gateway)

Privileged access from private/public clouds

Branches & data center

Network/transport layers

Application layer

SECURING AWS NETWORKS WITH CHECK POINT UNIQUE CHALLENGES OF CLOUD NETWORKS 2

Key benefits: • Reduced Attack Surface: Segmenting environments and inspecting east-west traffic limits

exposure and minimizes breach impact.

• Advanced Threat Prevention: AI-driven analytics, behavior-based detection, and deep packet inspection help stop malware, ransomware, and DDoS attacks before they cause harm.

• Seamless Scalability: Check Point scales security dynamically as workloads grow, supporting DevOps speed, remote teams, and new cloud deployments without disruption.

• Operational Simplicity and Cost Efficiency: A unified management console reduces tool sprawl and overhead, helping teams enforce consistent policies across hybrid and multi- cloud environments.

• Consistent Policy Across All Environments: Whether operating in AWS, Nutanix, public cloud, hybrid cloud, or private data centers, Check Point ensures uniform enforcement and compliance.

• Zero Trust Security Model: Implements least-privilege access across users, apps, and workloads, regardless of location or device.

SECURING AWS NETWORKS WITH CHECK POINT WHAT IS NETWORK ACCESS CONTROL? 3

What is Network Access Control? To effectively secure the fragmented cloud perimeter, organizations must begin with the

most fundamental layer of defense: controlling who and what can access their environments. This is where modern Network Access Control plays a pivotal role.

Network Access Control (NAC) governs who can access systems, data, and services across the enterprise network. In today’s hybrid cloud world, NAC must adapt to complex environments that span public cloud, private cloud, and on-prem infrastructure.

Check Point delivers NAC through intelligent enforcement, deploying gateways at strategic intersections across the cloud. These gateways go beyond traditional firewalls by incorporating identity, roles, and contextual attributes (like location, device, or time) into access decisions.

Securing Dynamic Cloud Environments Modern cloud environments are fluid. Workloads scale up and down, resources shift, and users connect from everywhere. To secure this landscape, NAC must:

• Adapt in Real Time: Policies must automatically adjust based on changes in cloud workloads, user behavior, and network topology.

• Integrate Seamlessly: Security controls should tie into cloud provider APIs to automate enforcement and reduce manual overhead.

• Scale Across Clouds: With unified policy enforcement across AWS, other public and hybrid clouds, and on-premises networks, Check Point simplifies access control, even in the most distributed architectures.

What Unified Access Control Policies Enable • Protection Against Unauthorized Access: Prevents attackers, malicious insiders, and

misconfigured systems from reaching sensitive resources.

• Regulatory Compliance: Enforces access controls and provides detailed audit logs to help meet industry-specific mandates like HIPAA, GDPR, and PCI DSS.

• Zero Trust Enforcement: No user or device is trusted by default, even inside the network. Access is granted only after verification.

• Lateral Movement Prevention: Microsegmentation limits the spread of attacks across networks, workloads, and regions.

SECURING AWS NETWORKS WITH CHECK POINT WHAT IS NETWORK ACCESS CONTROL? 4

• AWS, Multi-Cloud, and Hybrid Environment Support: Centralized policies reduce misconfigurations across diverse environments and simplify operations.

• Automatic Policy Adjustment: Adaptive access rules respond to real-time changes in user roles, workload status, or network context.

How Does Network Access Control Work in Clouds? In cloud environments, Network Access Control is enforced through virtual firewalls and intelligent gateways that inspect traffic and apply policies in real time. These policies are based on a combination of factors, including security zones, geographic regions, specific applications or services, types of data being accessed, and users' roles or identities. This multidimensional approach enables more precise access decisions than traditional static rule sets.

Check Point Cloud Firewall serves as a core enforcement point for this model. It inspects every connection and dynamically enforces access policies based on real-time context, helping organizations prevent unauthorized access and reduce risk across distributed environments.

To support compliance, auditing, and security operations, Check Point automatically generates detailed access logs. These logs include essential metadata such as the source and destination networks, communication protocols, applications used, user identities, accessed resources, and the types of data involved. This deep visibility enables faster investigation of anomalies, supports regulatory reporting, and strengthens overall governance across hybrid and multi-cloud architectures.

Creating Network Security Access Control Policies At the core of any network firewall is a set of access control policies that determine which connections are allowed and denied. These policies are critical to enforcing security while maintaining efficient operations across cloud and on-premises environments. An effective policy begins by allowing only authorized connections and blocking those that present vulnerabilities or unnecessary exposure. This means ensuring that only verified users and devices can access specific internal resources and that all connections are thoroughly inspected.

Check Point Cloud Firewall enables organizations to define policies that go beyond traditional access lists. For example, stealth rules can block direct access to security gateways, shielding them from external probing or attacks. Clean-up rules, typically placed at the end of the policy, act as a final layer of defense by dropping any traffic that hasn’t explicitly been allowed earlier in the rule base.

Together, these elements ensure not just security but clarity, removing ambiguity from the network’s access posture and ensuring that every connection is intentional, traceable, and aligned with organizational policy.

SECURING AWS NETWORKS WITH CHECK POINT WHAT IS NETWORK ACCESS CONTROL? 5

Why is Unified Network Access Control Important?

As organizations adopt increasingly complex cloud architectures, fragmented access control becomes a growing risk. Managing security across multiple vendors and platforms can lead to misconfigurations, inconsistent policies, and gaps that attackers can exploit.

A unified approach to Network Access Control consolidates security policy creation, logging, monitoring, and reporting into a single, centrally managed system. With Check Point Cloud Firewall, administrators can define and enforce policies across all environments, from on- premises data centers to AWS, other cloud providers, and beyond, using one management console.

This centralized model dramatically improves operational efficiency while reducing the chances of human error. It also accelerates threat response by offering correlated visibility into user behavior, application usage, and policy violations across the entire network.

CLOUD AGNOSTIC POLICY ENFORCEMENT Tag/Object Based Policies + Access Control

Data CenterPrivate Cloud AWS

• Scale Groups • Load Balancers • High Availability • Cloud WAN

Other Clouds

• Scaling features • Load Balancers

or Virtual WAN support

• High Availability

SD/Virtual WAN, TLS, DPI…

IPS DLP Anti-bot Antivirus IPSec VPN Threat Emulation & Extraction

NUTANIX

SECURING AWS NETWORKS WITH CHECK POINT

THREAT PREVENTION: STAYING AHEAD OF ATTACKERS 6

Unified access control should support a comprehensive set of capabilities, including firewall enforcement, application and URL filtering, content awareness to restrict sensitive data movement, secure VPN connectivity for site-to-site and mobile users, and identity-based access controls. These features work in concert to ensure that every access request is evaluated contextually and that security policies are consistently applied, no matter where the user or workload resides.

But network access control is not enough While access control governs who can access resources, it doesn’t determine what threats they may bring. That’s why access must be paired with proactive threat prevention, which can stop attacks before they spread.

Threat Prevention: Staying Ahead of Attackers In modern environments, the network perimeter is no longer a well-defined boundary. It has become a patchwork of access points, cloud identities, and third-party services. While the phrase “identity is the new perimeter” is commonly used, it’s also misleading. Access control may determine who gets in, but it doesn’t stop threats. It simply defines who is allowed to bring them in. That’s why identity and access management alone is not enough. Organizations must pair it with AI-powered threat prevention that can inspect behavior, disarm malicious content, and proactively block sophisticated attacks, no matter how they enter.

To stay ahead, organizations need a prevention-first strategy that can anticipate and block threats before damage is done. Threat prevention does just that: detecting and blocking cyberattacks before they reach their targets, leveraging intrusion prevention, advanced malware detection, URL filtering, anti-bot defenses, and sandboxing. More importantly, robust threat prevention it requires real-time, accurate intelligence to stop threats before they spread. That’s where ThreatCloud AI stands apart.

ThreatCloud AI: The Brain Behind Check Point’s Best Security

SECURING AWS NETWORKS WITH CHECK POINT

THREAT PREVENTION: STAYING AHEAD OF ATTACKERS 7

from Check Point Research (CPR). This elite team uncovers the world’s most advanced software vulnerabilities and threats, often before they’re publicly known.

These capabilities were validated by Miercom's 2025 Enterprise Hybrid Mesh Firewall Report, which named Check Point the top-performing vendor across all threat prevention categories. In real-world zero-day scenarios, Check Point blocked 99.9% of Zero+1 Day malware, scored 99.74% phishing URL prevention with only a single miss, and outperformed all other vendors in first-to-block speed during live threat simulations.

When a threat is identified, whether it’s a zero-day malware sample, a phishing link, or a sophisticated Trojan, ThreatCloud AI instantly propagates protections across all Check Point products. For example, a malicious URL discovered in the U.S. can be blocked in real time just seconds later in a similar attack in Australia. This global sharing model ensures that customers are protected within moments of a threat being discovered, with no patching required.

Prevention in Action: What ThreatCloud AI Delivers

•

Block Zero-Day Threats at Scale: With 55+ AI-driven engines, ThreatCloud AI detects and blocks zero-day ransomware, trojans, and advanced malware before others even know they exist.

• Real-Time Threat Sharing: New protections are delivered instantly worldwide, ensuring your organization benefits from worldwide visibility.

• Disarm Malicious Content Instantly: Ultra-fast Content Disarm and Reconstruction (CDR) technology removes potential threats from web downloads and email attachments in less than a second.

• Stop First-Seen Phishing: Advanced deep learning analyzes over 300 phishing indicators to prevent previously unknown attacks arriving via web or email. Miercom confirmed 99.74%

AI/ML Technology 55+ AI and Machine Learning

technologies that identify and block emerging threats never

seen before

Big Data Threat Intelligence Always acquires the most recent IoCs and protections of latest attacks seen in the wild from 150,000+ networks

Telemetry Telemetry

ACCURATE PREVENTION (MALICIOUS/SAFE)

https://www.checkpoint.com/2025-miercom-firewall-report/?flz-category=items&flz-item=report--miercom-enterprise--hybrid-mesh-firewall-benchmark-2025

SECURING AWS NETWORKS WITH CHECK POINT

THREAT PREVENTION: STAYING AHEAD OF ATTACKERS 8

phishing URL prevention with only one missed phishing link during their 2025 benchmark test.

• Fewer False Positives: ThreatCloud AI’s accuracy means security teams deal with fewer alerts and tickets, improving productivity without compromising safety.

Securing the Future with Check Point Check Point Cloud Firewall integrates ThreatCloud AI into every layer of cloud network security, delivering proactive, intelligent, and globally enforced protection. This strength was validated in CyberRatings.org’s evaluation, where Check Point achieved a 100% block rate across exploits, evasions, and encrypted traffic, one of only two solutions to do so.

But threat prevention is not enough To ensure threat prevention keeps pace with rapidly evolving cloud workloads, security must be intelligent and cloud native. This means integrating directly with the infrastructure and scaling as fast as the applications it protects.

SECURING AWS NETWORKS WITH CHECK POINT

CLOUD-NATIVE CAPABILITIES: SCALING WITH SPEED 9

Cloud-Native Capabilities: Scaling with Speed Modern cloud environments are dynamic, workloads scale up or down by the hour, applications span regions, and new services spin up in seconds. Security must move just as fast.

Check Point Cloud Firewall is built from the ground up with cloud-native principles, enabling it to integrate, scale, and adapt across public and private cloud architectures without friction.

Seamless Integration with Cloud Platforms Check Point supports leading cloud platforms, including AWS.

Leveraging native API integrations, it connects directly with these environments to automate routine tasks such as policy updates, threat monitoring, and instance scaling. Importantly, Check Point also integrates with cloud-native services, like load balancers, virtual/cloud WAN services, and auto-scaling groups – ensuring security adapts to your existing architecture.

Adaptive Policies with Cloud Tags In fast-moving environments, static rules become obsolete quickly. Check Point solves this by tying policies to cloud-native tags rather than IP addresses. When a tagged resource is deployed, security policies are applied automatically. If that resource is terminated or changed, policies adapt in real time. This automation-first approach eliminates configuration drift, reduces manual errors, and keeps security aligned with DevOps's velocity.

Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for Consistent Deployment Check Point supports modern DevOps toolchains through Infrastructure as Code (IaC). Using platforms like Terraform, Ansible, or AWS CloudFormation, ensuring that security becomes part of the deployment lifecycle, not an afterthought. With Check Point security teams can:

• Deploy firewalls and gateways automatically

• Apply pre-approved security templates

• Embed protections into CI/CD pipelines

Automated Scaling with Changing Workloads

SECURING AWS NETWORKS WITH CHECK POINT

CLOUD-NATIVE CAPABILITIES: SCALING WITH SPEED 10

Check Point hybrid mesh firewalls scale in and out automatically based on real-time workload demands. During traffic spikes, such as product launches or seasonal events, firewalls scale up instantly. As the load decreases, they scale down to optimize cost.

Security policies are dynamically applied to new instances as they launch, ensuring no gaps in protection and no manual rework.

Unified Management Across Environments Whether you’re running on-premises, in the cloud, or a hybrid model, Check Point centralizes security operations through Smart-1. This unified console provides visibility, policy management, logging, and threat analysis across environments, eliminating silos and simplifying oversight.

Integration with Infinity ThreatCloud Events enables real-time correlation and enriched incident response, helping security teams respond faster and more accurately.

Consistent Protection Across Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Networks Check Point Cloud Firewall is vendor-agnostic, delivering consistent security across public and private clouds preventing breaches and enforcing policies on traffic entering or leaving the cloud and traffic traversing workloads and regions, giving organizations full coverage across their attack surface.

Efficient by Design With built-in automation and scalability, Check Point reduces manual intervention and lowers operational overhead. Resources are allocated based on real-time needs, helping organizations avoid overprovisioning while maintaining enterprise-grade protection.

SECURING AWS NETWORKS WITH CHECK POINT PUBLIC AND PRIVATE CLOUD USE CASES 11

Public and Private Cloud Use Cases The capabilities mentioned in the previous chapter are not hypothetical; they come to life in real-world deployments. The following use cases show how Check Point’s 4,100+ customers secure their cloud environments at scale.

Public Cloud Use Case: Auto-Scaling Security with AWS Cloud infrastructure is designed to scale, but unless your security scales with it, the attack surface grows unchecked. For example, an e-commerce platform anticipating a surge in traffic during a shopping holiday needs to expand both its infrastructure and its security posture instantly.

By deploying Check Point Cloud Firewall through AWS Gateway Load Balancers (GWLBs), organizations can dynamically scale security protections across workloads without compromising performance or introducing operational complexity.

Auto-Scaling with Check Point Cloud Firewall and GWLB Check Point’s integration with AWS follows a blueprint built on automation, deep cloud-native visibility, and infrastructure-as-code. Here's how auto- scaling works in practice:

• Real-Time Monitoring and Scaling Triggers: AWS GWLB monitors traffic volumes and automatically triggers scaling events as thresholds are exceeded.

• Auto-Deployment of Check Point Cloud Firewalls: AWS Auto Scaling Groups launch additional Cloud Firewalls. Each instance is pre- configured using deployment templates and is registered to Smart-1 Cloud or self- hosted management via the built-in Cloud Firewall Configurator.

• Dynamic Security Policy Assignment: Once deployed, Check Point detects the new instances, maps associated AWS tags and metadata, and automatically assigns appropriate security policies, all based on predefined rules.

UNIFIED POLICY

ADAPTIVE POLICIES & PROVISIONING

HYBRID PRIVATE PUBLIC

SECURING AWS NETWORKS WITH CHECK POINT PUBLIC AND PRIVATE CLOUD USE CASES 12

• Intelligent Traffic Distribution and HA: GWLB evenly distributes traffic across all firewall instances and uses health checks to ensure traffic only reaches healthy gateways. Failed instances are bypassed and automatically replaced.

• Elastic Scale-Down: When demand drops, the GWLB triggers a scale-in event. Unused firewalls are decommissioned automatically, optimizing cost and resource consumption.

Key Capabilities • Native Integration: Check Point integrates directly with AWS APIs to import cloud-native

objects, including instances, tags, ENIs, ELBs, security groups, and subnets, importing them as dynamic objects for precise object-based policy enforcement.

• Secure Cross-Account Connectivity: Supports multiple credential options, including IAM Role, Access Key/Secret, and STS Assume Role, allowing secure management of multiple AWS accounts from a centralized console.

• Tag-Driven Automation: Security policies automatically adapt based on AWS tags (e.g., Env=Prod, App=Payments). When a new instance is launched with a recognized tag, the relevant policy is instantly applied with no manual configuration.

• Infrastructure as Code (IaC): Supports Terraform, AWS CloudFormation, and Ansible to automate firewall deployment and policy consistency as part of DevOps workflows.

• ENI and Region-Aware Filtering: Supports Elastic Network Interface (ENI) imports and region-specific policy scoping for granular control over east-west and north-south traffic.

Benefits • Unmatched Security: In a head-to-head comparison of cloud firewalls conducted by

CyberRatings.org in 2025, Check Point achieved 100% security effectiveness, outperforming AWS’s cloud firewall, which got 0% security effectiveness when tested across Routing & Access Control, TLS/SSL functionality, exploits, evasions, stability, and reliability.

• Resilient, Elastic Security Posture: Ensures that as workloads scale, so does protection, without lag or manual intervention.

• Unified Policy Management: All Check Point Firewalls, whether deployed in AWS or elsewhere, are managed from a single pane of glass.

• Optimized Costs: Check Point Cloud Firewall scales in and out automatically, preventing overprovisioning while maintaining performance and compliance.

• Visibility and Governance: Real-time telemetry, logs, and threat events are centralized for auditing, troubleshooting, and incident response.

https://engage.checkpoint.com/cyber-ratings-resource-page/items/webinar--cyberratings-puts-cloud-network-firewalls-to-the-test?fw=3027d

SECURING AWS NETWORKS WITH CHECK POINT PUBLIC AND PRIVATE CLOUD USE CASES 13

Conclusion With Check Point + GWLB, AWS environments gain the elasticity of the cloud without compromising on visibility, control, or protection. Combined with ThreatCloud AI and centralized policy orchestration, organizations can enforce consistent, intelligent security policies at cloud speed.

Public Cloud Use Case: Securing AWS Cloud WAN with Check Point As organizations adopt global cloud strategies, many are turning to AWS Cloud WAN, a managed wide-area networking (WAN) service that organizations can use to build, manage, and monitor a unified global network that connects resources running across hybrid environments. AWS Cloud WAN allows for the use of simple network policies to centrally configure and automate network management and security tasks, to enable organizations to get a complete view of their global network.

Check Point Cloud Firewall integrates seamlessly with both AWS Cloud WAN and AWS Cloud WAN Service Insertion.

Benefits of using AWS Cloud WAN Prior to AWS Cloud WAN, organizations built resilient, global AWS architectures utilizing Transit VPCs, Transit Gateways, Hub and Spoke models, VPNs, Direct Connect, and everything in between. With AWS Cloud WAN, the same thing can be accomplished with a handful of clicks. Cloud WAN also provides the ability to centrally monitor network health and performance.

AWS Cloud WAN is valuable for customers who are operating in multiple regions and trying to simplify their operational overhead. Additionally, this new service is compelling for customers who require complex peering, routing, and automated configurations but prefer to expend less time and effort maintaining, monitoring and building these resilient deployments.

Securing AWS Cloud WAN with Check Point Check Point’s integration with AWS Cloud WAN delivers industry-leading advanced threat prevention and multi-layered network security for AWS and hybrid cloud deployments.

• Security features include Firewall, IPS, Application Control, IPsec VPN, Anti-Virus and Anti-Bot, DLP, GenAI, Threat Extraction and Threat Emulation.

SECURING AWS NETWORKS WITH CHECK POINT PUBLIC AND PRIVATE CLOUD USE CASES 14

• Integrated with leading configuration management tools including AWS CloudFormation, Check Point enables rapid deployment and supports full automation to support CI/CD processes and Infrastructure as Code practices.

• The Check Point unified security management console provides consistent visibility, policy management, logging, reporting and control across AWS and hybrid-cloud networks as well as for on-premises deployments.

Check Point Cloud Firewall also provides for the ability to apply consistent security policies wherever your workloads are deployed, in AWS and hybrid-cloud deployments.

Conclusion AWS Cloud WAN offers powerful networking capabilities, and Check Point Cloud Firewall provides AWS Cloud WAN customers the ability to extend world-class cybersecurity to secure traffic flowing in and out of their infrastructure, enhancing and complementing AWS security.

Private Cloud Use Case: Securing Private Cloud Environments As organizations modernize their data centers and adopt hybrid architectures or repatriate workloads back to on-prem environments, private cloud platforms continue to play a critical role, especially in regulated industries, performance-sensitive workloads, or environments requiring complete infrastructure control. However, securing private clouds brings its own challenges.

Traditional network security tools struggle to keep up with highly virtualized, software-defined environments that span multiple hypervisors, SDN layers, and automation stacks. Conversely, Check Point's cloud-adapted hybrid mesh firewall offers unified policy enforcement, automated object discovery, and advanced threat prevention across public and private clouds alike.

A Common Security Architecture Across Private Clouds Check Point supports a wide range of private cloud and HCI platforms, including Nutanix, VMware, OpenStack, and more, ensuring consistent and repeatable security controls even as infrastructure varies. Across these environments, Check Point delivers:

• Dynamic Object Discovery: Automatically imports virtual machines, tags, subnets, and other cloud-native objects to build real-time, adaptive policy.

SECURING AWS NETWORKS WITH CHECK POINT PUBLIC AND PRIVATE CLOUD USE CASES 15

• Microsegmentation and Policy Granularity: Enforces least-privilege access across tenants, services, and applications within virtual networks.

• Deep Packet Inspection and Threat Prevention: Stops malware, ransomware, and lateral movement using AI-powered security engines.

• Automation and Orchestration: Check Point integrates with private cloud orchestration tools to simplify provisioning, HA configuration, and policy rollout.

This architecture allows enterprises to manage complex, distributed networks with a single policy model, managed through a single centralized console, regardless of whether the environment is on-premises, public cloud, or hybrid.

Key Benefits • Simple Deployment and Orchestration: Check Point gateways can be rapidly provisioned in

active/standby pairs for high availability with automated policy assignment.

• Tenant Isolation and Microsegmentation: Logical segmentation can be enforced at the network level, minimizing the blast radius of any compromise.

• Unified Visibility Across Cloud and On-Prem: Logs, events, and threat telemetry are consolidated in a single console.

• Flexible Security Policy with Third-Party Categories: With some third-party private cloud solutions, such as Nutanix, Check Point leverages native tagging models to create adaptive rules that move with the workload, improving agility and reducing misconfigurations.

Private Clouds Conclusion No matter which private cloud architecture an organization chooses, whether built on Nutanix, VMware, OpenStack, or OCI, Check Point Cloud Firewall provides a consistent, intelligent, and prevention-first security layer. By extending hybrid mesh firewall capabilities into private infrastructure, enterprises can unify their cloud and on-premises security strategy with full visibility, automation, and control.

SECURING AWS NETWORKS WITH CHECK POINT

OFFERINGS ON AWS MARKETPLACE 16

Check Point Offerings on AWS Marketplace Gain the confidence to use, access, and move between all points in your cloud environment Check Point works seamlessly in your AWS environment, offering dozens of integrations with AWS services.

de Cloud Firewall as a sevice livering advanced, multi-layered network security for the AWS cloud environment and protecting cloud assets.

Check Point’s offerings on AWS Marketplace deliver simplified deployment and automation processes that remove security obstacles, so you can spend more time innovating with the power of the AWS cloud. With Check Point on AWS, you get consistent security everywhere, with the automated cloud benefits of AWS.

https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-3xp7nph2367yc?sr=0-1&ref_=beagle&applicationId=AWSMPContessa https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-3xp7nph2367yc

SECURING AWS NETWORKS WITH CHECK POINT CONCLUSION 17

Conclusion A Strategic Approach to Securing AWS Networks: The modern cloud perimeter isn’t a static edge, and securing it demands prevention, visibility, and automation. Check Point Cloud Firewall delivers precisely that: a cloud-adapted hybrid mesh firewall that brings unified protection to AWS as well as other public cloud, private cloud, and hybrid environments. By combining access control, AI-powered threat prevention, and cloud-native agility, Check Point helps organizations reduce risk without slowing down innovation.

PREVENTION STARTS HERE

Worldwide Headquarters 5 Shlomo Kaplan Street, Tel Aviv 6789159, Israel | Tel: +972-3-753-4599

U.S. Headquarters 100 Oracle Parkway, Suite 800, Redwood City, CA 94065 | Tel: 1-800-429-4391

www.checkpoint.com

https://aws.amazon.com/marketplace/pp/prodview-3xp7nph2367yc?sr=0-1&ref_=beagle&applicationId=AWSMPContessa

Unique Challenges of Cloud Networks The Cloud Prevention Mesh: Securing All Entry Points Why Organizations Choose CloudGuard Hybrid Mesh Firewalls Key benefits:

What is Network Access Control? Securing Dynamic Cloud Environments What Unified Access Control Policies Enable How Does Network Access Control Work in Clouds? Creating Network Security Access Control Policies Why is Unified Network Access Control Important?

Threat Prevention: Staying Ahead of Attackers ThreatCloud AI: The Brain Behind Check Point’s Best Security Prevention in Action: What ThreatCloud AI Delivers Securing the Future with CloudGuard

Cloud-Native Capabilities: Scaling with Speed Seamless Integration with Cloud Platforms Adaptive Policies with Cloud Tags Infrastructure as Code (IaC) for Consistent Deployment Automated Scaling with Changing Workloads Unified Management Across Environments Consistent Protection Across Multi-Cloud and Hybrid Networks Efficient by Design

Public and Private Cloud Use Cases Public Cloud Use Case: Auto-Scaling Security with AWS Auto-Scaling with CloudGuard and GWLB Key Capabilities Benefits

Public Cloud Use Case: Securing AWS Cloud WAN with CloudGuard Benefits of using AWS Cloud WAN Securing AWS Cloud WAN with CloudGuard

Private Cloud Use Case: Securing Private Cloud Environments A Common Security Architecture Across Private Clouds Key Benefits

Check Point Offerings on AWS Marketplace Conclusion Untitled Untitled

White Paper | Securing AWS Networks with Check Point Cloud Firewall

Item Type: pdf