“Microsoft Azure Virtual WAN is a network-as-a-service that provides customers with a range of benefits simplifying networking, security and routing functionalities to drive scalability, cost savings and improved performance. The native integration between Azure Virtual WAN and Check Point CloudGuard (generally available) enhances and complements Azure Virtual WAN security, offering our customers centralized security in an intuitive and simple offering through the
As organizations grow and operate in a distributed IT environment, connectivity and cybersecurity becomes an operational challenge. In fact,
"Cloud computing allows companies to add onto their cloud workloads in seconds, and they need security that is agile, reduces complexity, and is focused on prevention-first," said TJ Gonen, VP of Cloud Security at
CloudGuard Network Security for Azure Virtual WAN provides these benefits to customers:
- Industry-leading threat prevention: CloudGuard supports all security use cases and includes Firewall, IPS, Application Control, IPsec VPN, Anti-Virus and Anti-Bot, DLP, as well as Threat Extraction and Threat Emulation for zero-day threats. Check Point network security solutions are rated with the highest security effectiveness score of 99.7% malware prevention and the lowest false positive rate of 0.13% according to the latest Miercom benchmark report.
- Cloud-native and integrated security: CloudGuard is built for cloud principles of elasticity, availability, resilience, and seamless support for traffic growth, and is easily deployed into the Virtual WAN hub from
Azure Marketplace . CloudGuard integrates with Azure Routing Intent for security insertion - a centralized, simpler, quicker, more consistent, and scalable way to secure multi-spoke networks. - Greater operational efficiency and simplicity: CloudGuard can be easily and quickly deployed as a consumption-based solution. (At the time of this announcement, consumption-based billing is static with predetermined billing based on scale units.) The integration enables agile maintenance, upgrades, and updates, thus significantly reducing operational overhead.
CloudGuard Network Security for Azure Virtual WAN is generally available. For more information visit: https://www.checkpoint.com/cloudguard/microsoft-azure-security/wan/
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