CheckPoint Software Case Studies Secure Private Cloud Delivers Agility to Global Asset Management Company

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	Secure Private Cloud Delivers Agility to Global Asset Management Company CheckPoint Software

Secure Private Cloud Delivers Agility to Global Asset Management Company

CheckPoint Software

Technology Category	Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Private Cloud Networks & Connectivity - Gateways
Applicable Industries	Glass National Security & Defense
Applicable Functions	Product Research & Development
Use Cases	Asset Lifecycle Management Tamper Detection
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services Data Science Services
Challenge	The global asset management company, with nearly $620 billion under management, was facing a challenge in securely segmenting and protecting applications, whether on-premises or in the cloud. They were also struggling with the management of private cloud security and gaining visibility into traffic inside the data center or lateral threat prevention for internal traffic. The firm’s security infrastructure team was already managing firewalls and rules, proxies, and remote access using Check Point solutions. However, as they deployed a VMware NSX private cloud environment, they needed to secure it while maintaining security for their existing data center applications. Read More
About Customer	The customer is a global asset management company with almost $620 billion under management. The company serves more than 19 million clients worldwide with industry-leading retirement plans, Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs), deferred compensation plans, and insurance offerings. Businesses, governments, institutions, and individuals turn to it to help them achieve their financial goals. Founded in the U.S., the company operates in Asia, Europe, Australia, Latin America, and North America. The company's in-house development teams are creating new financial models and algorithms by tapping into unstructured data sources, machine learning, and predictive analytics capabilities. Read More
Solution	The company chose Check Point vSEC for VMware NSX to secure their private cloud environment. This solution protects internal data center (east-west) traffic with multi-layered protections. It transparently enforces security between virtual machines at the network level, automatically quarantines infected machines for remediation, and provides comprehensive visibility into virtual network traffic patterns and threats. The team deployed VMware NSX ahead of schedule and decided to deploy Check Point vSEC for NSX without vendor or partner assistance. With the help of the administrator’s guide, they had the NSX cloud environment secured in under an hour. In addition, they transformed existing physical Check Point gateways into vSEC gateways using the Check Point R80 Hotfix feature for vSEC. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) - Private Cloud

Networks & Connectivity - Gateways

Applicable Industries

Glass

National Security & Defense

Applicable Functions

Product Research & Development

Use Cases

Asset Lifecycle Management

Tamper Detection

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

Data Science Services

Challenge

The global asset management company, with nearly $620 billion under management, was facing a challenge in securely segmenting and protecting applications, whether on-premises or in the cloud. They were also struggling with the management of private cloud security and gaining visibility into traffic inside the data center or lateral threat prevention for internal traffic. The firm’s security infrastructure team was already managing firewalls and rules, proxies, and remote access using Check Point solutions. However, as they deployed a VMware NSX private cloud environment, they needed to secure it while maintaining security for their existing data center applications.

About Customer

The customer is a global asset management company with almost $620 billion under management. The company serves more than 19 million clients worldwide with industry-leading retirement plans, Employee Stock Ownership Plans (ESOPs), deferred compensation plans, and insurance offerings. Businesses, governments, institutions, and individuals turn to it to help them achieve their financial goals. Founded in the U.S., the company operates in Asia, Europe, Australia, Latin America, and North America. The company's in-house development teams are creating new financial models and algorithms by tapping into unstructured data sources, machine learning, and predictive analytics capabilities.

Solution

The company chose Check Point vSEC for VMware NSX to secure their private cloud environment. This solution protects internal data center (east-west) traffic with multi-layered protections. It transparently enforces security between virtual machines at the network level, automatically quarantines infected machines for remediation, and provides comprehensive visibility into virtual network traffic patterns and threats. The team deployed VMware NSX ahead of schedule and decided to deploy Check Point vSEC for NSX without vendor or partner assistance. With the help of the administrator’s guide, they had the NSX cloud environment secured in under an hour. In addition, they transformed existing physical Check Point gateways into vSEC gateways using the Check Point R80 Hotfix feature for vSEC.

Impact #1	The asset management company already had Check Point security gateway capabilities like firewall, antivirus, URL filtering, application control, intrusion prevention, and URL filtering capabilities enabled for its data center environment. Check Point vSEC for NSX not only extends those protections to the private cloud, it greatly simplified overall security management. Within NSX, the team redirects all traffic to Check Point vSEC virtual gateway, enabling continuous security protection and management through a single pane of glass. The Check Point R80 management console gives the lean operations team one place to go for consolidated management, correlation, and logging. As the security landscape evolves, the asset management company values Check Point in helping them navigate the changes and gain confidence and peace of mind. Looking ahead, they plan to try Check Point SandBlast Threat Emulation and Threat Extraction capabilities and look forward to benefiting from other Check Point customers’ experiences.

Impact #1

The asset management company already had Check Point security gateway capabilities like firewall, antivirus, URL filtering, application control, intrusion prevention, and URL filtering capabilities enabled for its data center environment. Check Point vSEC for NSX not only extends those protections to the private cloud, it greatly simplified overall security management. Within NSX, the team redirects all traffic to Check Point vSEC virtual gateway, enabling continuous security protection and management through a single pane of glass. The Check Point R80 management console gives the lean operations team one place to go for consolidated management, correlation, and logging. As the security landscape evolves, the asset management company values Check Point in helping them navigate the changes and gain confidence and peace of mind. Looking ahead, they plan to try Check Point SandBlast Threat Emulation and Threat Extraction capabilities and look forward to benefiting from other Check Point customers’ experiences.

Benefit #1	Secured the NSX powered cloud environment rapidly and easily
Benefit #2	Simplified and unified security management with single console for management, correlation, and logging
Benefit #3	Automated private cloud network infrastructure, enabling traffic redirection or protection through physical gateways simply by assigning resources to a security group

Benefit #1

Secured the NSX powered cloud environment rapidly and easily

Benefit #2

Simplified and unified security management with single console for management, correlation, and logging

Benefit #3

Automated private cloud network infrastructure, enabling traffic redirection or protection through physical gateways simply by assigning resources to a security group

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Secure Private Cloud Delivers Agility to Global Asset Management Company

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