Check Point vSEC for Azure Stack seamlessly secures the hybrid-cloud

Using the hybrid cloud is much like streaming a movie on a home theater system. Pulling the film from the cloud to your big screen TV, the home theater experience marries the benefits of the public cloud with the comfort of not having to leave the house and overpay for popcorn. The hybrid cloud, with the public cloud benefits such as agility, elasticity, and on-demand computing, allows organizations to know exactly where their data is, deploying the services to best meet their unique business, technical, and regulatory requirements.

A player in the cloud world, Microsoft released Azure Stack in order to push the edge of the Azure public cloud into on-site data centers. Using an integrated hardware appliance, organizations could marry the benefits of the public Azure cloud service with the autonomy of having data hosted on-premise. Azure stack lets DevOps use the same development environment for on-premise workloads that they used for the Azure cloud, allowing a seamless, elegant hybrid cloud solution.

While the hybrid cloud combines the benefits of the public and the private cloud, it also brings the security vulnerabilities of the public cloud over to the on-premise server. Organizations still need to protect their assets, data, apps hosted in Azure on-premise cloud environments.

That’s why Check Point and Microsoft have jointly delivered a fully integrated and secured Azure Stack cloud environment. Check Point vSEC for Azure Stack, now available in the Azure Stack Marketplace, supports Azure hybrid cloud environments built on Azure Stack.

By complementing the native built-in security controls available in Azure Stack with advanced threat prevention security, Check Point vSEC helps you uphold your security responsibilities in your Azure Stack environment by making cloud security dynamic, automated and scalable. Deploying vSEC inside the Azure Stack extends the same security protections that you have in the Azure public cloud using Check Point vSEC for Azure. Whether organizations run in their local Azure Stack environment or the Azure public cloud, they can secure cloud workloads with vSEC cloud security wherever they choose.

The joint solution and partnership with Microsoft Azure includes the following milestones and achievements:

• Check Point’s long standing and deep partnership with Microsoft delivers better product quality and customer experiences
• Proven and deep integration with every Microsoft cloud innovation and milestone starting with vSEC Virtual Edition integrating with Hyper-V based environments
• As a Microsoft Azure certified solution and partner, Check Point has delivered a jointly integrated, proven, turn-key solution the marketplace ahead of competitor offerings.
• Check Point introduced the first NGFW virtual appliance into Azure MarketPlace that protects workloads in the Azure public cloud with advanced threat prevention.
• Our cloud aware vSEC controller functionality built into R80.10 Smart Management is a game changer for many customers enabling security policies that adapt automatically to changes in the cloud environments. R80.10 also provides REST API support for automated and orchestrated workflows critical in DevOps environments.
• Check Point is the only NGFW to integrate with Azure Security Center for automated deployment and provisioning
• Check Point is the first NGFW vendor to support Azure Stack for on-premise cloud and hybrid cloud environments
• Additionally, Check Point also develops SaaS and mobile security solutions that integrate into Microsoft’s wider product portfolio like SandBlast protection for Microsoft Office 365 and Intune (MDM) integrations
• We have many new integrations and feature support that we will announce in upcoming releases so stay tuned!

Check Point is looking forward to integrating with future innovations in Azure hybrid cloud environments. We are jointly committed with Microsoft to customer success in deploying agile, elastic and secure hybrid cloud environments.

Check Point cloud security has always been cloud agnostic because it integrates with all leading public and private cloud environments. This lets customers take advanced security wherever they go, allowing them to glue multi-cloud and hybrid cloud environments together at the security layer.

Join us at Microsoft Ignite, 9/25-9/29, 2017 at the Orange County Convention Center, Orlando, FL at Booth #807 where Check Point is a Gold Sponsor. Visit our booth to speak with our cloud and mobile security experts or view a demo of our vSEC cloud security and mobile security solutions. Attend our Expo presentation 9/25 at 1:45 – 2:05 PM, Expo Theater 3: Best Practices for Securing Hybrid Clouds with Microsoft Azure, Azure Stack and Check Point vSEC.

Learn more about vSEC for Azure Stack and vSEC cloud security. Read the joint press release announcing Check Point protections for Azure Stack.

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