This article introduces GigaOm's inaugural Radar for Cloud Network Security and explains why Check Point was ranked as the Leader as well as a Fast Mover.
Firstly, it is the cloudified version of Check Point's on-premises network security, from which it inherits the software code as well as 30 years of security gateway intellectual property and cybersecurity technology innovation.
Customers deploying it in the cloud get all the great features of Check Point's gold standard security management from a single pane-of-glass, receiving the same security technologies, policy management, visibility, logging, reporting and control that we have built to our customers' requirements and needs since 1993.
Check Point partners with all the leading cloud vendors, and CloudGuard integrates with their infrastructure and all of their popular and newest services, which ensures that customers always have the best cloud-native user experience.
In other words, Check Point's network security is completely cloud-ready.
The Radar report, published on November 16, 2023, was researched and written by Andrew Green, who specializes in networking and security.
The report researched a broad range of features and functionality, with some questions extending past CloudGuard Network Security's core capabilities.
This is one benefit of Check Point's consolidated approach to security.
Other recent industry accolades for Check Point network security.
Earlier this year, Check Point earned the highest marks in their objective third-party testing of security efficacy, in comparison with three competitive solutions.
There is a self-referential aspect about security solutions: they are meant to protect organizations from threats, but they also may contain security vulnerabilities, making them the source of the threat at the same time.
From January 2020 to June 2023, we tracked the software vulnerabilities of Check Point and three competitors, based on the relevant security advisories webpages.
Security vendors' critical and high SW vulnerabilities and the average time to fix them.
These statistics are as a result of mature software code and a swift response to software vulnerabilities, and are a benefit of Check Point's comprehensive approach to security.
The GigaOm Radar for Cloud Network Security ranked Check Point as the Leader as well as a Fast Mover.
This report is one of many industry accolades for CloudGuard and Check Point's network security in the last year from analysts and testing labs , emphasizing an unrivaled combination of security efficacy, features, strength of platform, ease-of-use, maturity, and innovation.
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This Cyber News was published on blog.checkpoint.com. Publication date: Fri, 22 Dec 2023 13:43:40 +0000