Check Point Simplifies Public and Private Cloud Security
August 31 2010 - 8:30AM
Marketwired
Today at VMworld 2010, Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd.
(NASDAQ: CHKP), the worldwide leader in securing the Internet,
announced the new Security Gateway Virtual Edition™ (VE) with
VMsafe integration that secures the cloud with the industry's most
advanced firewall and protects dynamic virtual environments from
both internal and external security threats. The new Security
Gateway VE is based on Check Point's Software Blade Architecture,
enabling businesses to leverage the same flexible and comprehensive
security solutions available on physical networks -- including
Firewall, VPN and intrusion prevention -- to meet the special
security, networking and management needs of virtual environments.
The new Security Gateway VE is designed to ensure organizations
can secure inter-VM traffic and external networks with granular
firewall policies and integrated intrusion prevention capabilities
to protect against malicious and unwanted network activity. In
addition, organizations can automatically apply security policies
to all existing or future virtual machines, without changing the
existing network topology or experiencing downtime during live
migration. With Security Gateway VE, customers are able to meet
both the traditional network traffic requirements and the dynamic
requirements needed to protect data at the hypervisor level,
ensuring they have the most comprehensive security for virtual
environments.
"Protecting the network from external threats and inspecting
traffic in between virtual machines are two primary challenges
associated with securing virtual environments," said Dorit Dor,
vice president of products at Check Point Software Technologies.
"The new Check Point Security Gateway VE inspects inter-VM traffic
at the hypervisor level for seamless security across an
organization's environment. In addition, administrators have more
transparency to prevent threats such as viruses, Trojans and key
loggers from ever reaching a virtual machine."
"Security has always been a top concern when it comes to virtual
environments," said Predrag Petrovic, senior system administrator,
QSS d.o.o., a leading systems integrator. "With Check Point's VE
solution we have trusted security protecting traffic on our 29
VMware hosts, enabling us to reap all the benefits virtualization
can offer."
With VMware VMsafe™ integration, Check Point's Security Gateway
VE can be deployed easily and consistently across the
infrastructure to achieve greater visibility, manageability, and
enforcement of standard security policies. Now organizations have
access to holistic data and greater system protection against new
and existing threats in the virtual environment.
"Security remains a top priority for any company looking at
deploying virtualization. By partnering with Check Point, customers
benefit from a breadth of security solutions for VMware
environments," said Parag Patel, vice president, Global Strategic
Alliances at VMware. "Combining more than a decade of expertise in
virtualization and security, VMware and Check Point continue to
provide customers the tools they need to secure their virtual
environments as they continue toward the goal of delivering IT as a
service."
Customers can easily deploy the Security Gateway VE into their
existing security infrastructure and virtual environment,
dramatically reducing deployment time and costs. Organizations can
centrally manage both the physical and virtual gateways from a
single console to simplify management. In addition, businesses can
provide a clear separation between virtualization and security
administrators, while leveraging the same global policies across
the organization's different environments. For more information
about the Security Gateway VE, visit:
http://www.checkpoint.com/products/security-gateway-virtual-edition/index.html.
"With the Security Gateway VE, customers can simplify the
complexities of securing dynamic virtual environments, while
leveraging the same infrastructure and unified management used to
protect their physical networks," concluded Dor.
Availability Check Point's Security
Gateway VE will be available in September 2010 and can be purchased
through the Check Point worldwide network of value-added resellers.
To find a Check Point partner, visit:
http://partners.us.checkpoint.com/partnerlocator/.
About Check Point Software Technologies
Ltd. Check Point Software Technologies Ltd.
(www.checkpoint.com), the worldwide leader in securing the
Internet, is the only vendor to deliver Total Security for
networks, data and endpoints, unified under a single management
framework. Check Point provides customers with uncompromised
protection against all types of threats, reduces security
complexity and lowers total cost of ownership. Check Point first
pioneered the industry with FireWall-1 and its patented stateful
inspection technology. Today, Check Point continues to innovate
with the development of the Software Blade architecture. The
dynamic Software Blade architecture delivers secure, flexible and
simple solutions that can be fully customized to meet the exact
security needs of any organization or environment. Check Point
customers include tens of thousands of businesses and organizations
of all sizes including all Fortune 100 companies. Check Point's
award-winning ZoneAlarm solutions protect millions of consumers
from hackers, spyware and identity theft.
©2010 Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. All rights
reserved
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and/or trademarks of VMware, Inc. in the United States and/or other
jurisdictions. The use of the word "partner" or "partnership" does
not imply a legal partnership relationship between VMware and any
other company.
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