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ViuTV's Multi-Cloud Security Enhancement with Check Point CloudGuard

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Technology Category	Cybersecurity & Privacy - Cloud Security Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Application Development Platforms
Applicable Industries	Construction & Infrastructure National Security & Defense
Applicable Functions	Product Research & Development Quality Assurance
Use Cases	Inventory Management Tamper Detection
Services	Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services
Challenge	ViuTV, a licensed free television station in Hong Kong, faced significant security challenges as it expanded its cloud footprint. Initially, the company launched its services using a traditional physical infrastructure, but soon migrated to AWS to handle unpredictable traffic volumes and eliminate server management issues. However, this shift led to three major security concerns. Firstly, ViuTV lacked visibility across all its cloud accounts and assets, making it difficult to ensure proper usage and prevent data leaks or security loopholes. Secondly, the company needed to protect against misconfiguration risk, which could expose the system to threats. Lastly, ViuTV wanted to ensure compliance with security standards and frameworks as part of its risk management strategy. The security options offered by its cloud providers were too fragmented to provide the necessary visibility and control. Read More
About Customer	ViuTV is a licensed free television station in Hong Kong, established in 2016. The station broadcasts a 24-hour Cantonese-language channel and a 16-hour English-language channel. Known for its creative productions, ViuTV offers a variety of programming including reality shows, dramas, talk shows, variety shows, and travelogues, as well as finance, music, and sports programs. Initially, ViuTV launched its services using a traditional physical infrastructure, but quickly migrated to AWS to handle unpredictable traffic volumes and eliminate server management issues. As the company increasingly focused on platform development, its cloud footprint expanded rapidly. Read More
Solution	ViuTV turned to Check Point's CloudGuard for Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) to address its security challenges. CSPM automates governance across multi-cloud assets and services, providing visibility and assessment of security posture, detecting misconfigurations, automating and enforcing policies, and protecting against attacks and insider threats. With CSPM, ViuTV gained multi-cloud visibility across its entire architecture, enabling the team to monitor network traffic, assets, network topology, firewalls, and discover vulnerabilities in real time. Check Point CSPM also helped ViuTV manage granular permissions across multiple clouds to protect and control IAM users and roles. The company gained further control with Check Point CSPM function server protection, adding a layer of protection to every function, including ports, IAM roles, and security groups. Check Point CSPM also enforces compliance and remediates violations automatically using CloudBot technology. Read More Log in to view content
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Technology Category

Cybersecurity & Privacy - Cloud Security

Platform as a Service (PaaS) - Application Development Platforms

Applicable Industries

Construction & Infrastructure

National Security & Defense

Applicable Functions

Product Research & Development

Quality Assurance

Use Cases

Inventory Management

Tamper Detection

Services

Cloud Planning, Design & Implementation Services

Challenge

ViuTV, a licensed free television station in Hong Kong, faced significant security challenges as it expanded its cloud footprint. Initially, the company launched its services using a traditional physical infrastructure, but soon migrated to AWS to handle unpredictable traffic volumes and eliminate server management issues. However, this shift led to three major security concerns. Firstly, ViuTV lacked visibility across all its cloud accounts and assets, making it difficult to ensure proper usage and prevent data leaks or security loopholes. Secondly, the company needed to protect against misconfiguration risk, which could expose the system to threats. Lastly, ViuTV wanted to ensure compliance with security standards and frameworks as part of its risk management strategy. The security options offered by its cloud providers were too fragmented to provide the necessary visibility and control.

About Customer

ViuTV is a licensed free television station in Hong Kong, established in 2016. The station broadcasts a 24-hour Cantonese-language channel and a 16-hour English-language channel. Known for its creative productions, ViuTV offers a variety of programming including reality shows, dramas, talk shows, variety shows, and travelogues, as well as finance, music, and sports programs. Initially, ViuTV launched its services using a traditional physical infrastructure, but quickly migrated to AWS to handle unpredictable traffic volumes and eliminate server management issues. As the company increasingly focused on platform development, its cloud footprint expanded rapidly.

Solution

ViuTV turned to Check Point's CloudGuard for Cloud Security Posture Management (CSPM) to address its security challenges. CSPM automates governance across multi-cloud assets and services, providing visibility and assessment of security posture, detecting misconfigurations, automating and enforcing policies, and protecting against attacks and insider threats. With CSPM, ViuTV gained multi-cloud visibility across its entire architecture, enabling the team to monitor network traffic, assets, network topology, firewalls, and discover vulnerabilities in real time. Check Point CSPM also helped ViuTV manage granular permissions across multiple clouds to protect and control IAM users and roles. The company gained further control with Check Point CSPM function server protection, adding a layer of protection to every function, including ports, IAM roles, and security groups. Check Point CSPM also enforces compliance and remediates violations automatically using CloudBot technology.

Impact #1	The implementation of Check Point's CloudGuard CSPM has brought significant operational benefits to ViuTV. The solution provides continuous protection, automatically enforcing compliance and remediating violations using CloudBot technology. This includes detecting violations such as an unencrypted S3 bucket during runtime, automatically turning on encryption, and sending a remediation notification. ViuTV is now able to implement robust governance across its multi-cloud environment, adhering to standards such as CIS, NIST, and AWS Well-Architected best practices. The company can also customize rules using CloudGuard Governance Specification Language (GSL). As ViuTV continues to embed security into its DevOps culture, practices, and tools, Check Point CSPM provides a solid foundation. The 'ShiftLeft' approach of adding security earlier in the development workflow will enable ViuTV to secure infrastructure and applications from application development through cloud deployment.

Impact #1

The implementation of Check Point's CloudGuard CSPM has brought significant operational benefits to ViuTV. The solution provides continuous protection, automatically enforcing compliance and remediating violations using CloudBot technology. This includes detecting violations such as an unencrypted S3 bucket during runtime, automatically turning on encryption, and sending a remediation notification. ViuTV is now able to implement robust governance across its multi-cloud environment, adhering to standards such as CIS, NIST, and AWS Well-Architected best practices. The company can also customize rules using CloudGuard Governance Specification Language (GSL). As ViuTV continues to embed security into its DevOps culture, practices, and tools, Check Point CSPM provides a solid foundation. The 'ShiftLeft' approach of adding security earlier in the development workflow will enable ViuTV to secure infrastructure and applications from application development through cloud deployment.

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ViuTV's Multi-Cloud Security Enhancement with Check Point CloudGuard

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