Check Point Software Deploys Comprehensive Security Architecture at Australia’s MidCoast Council To Align with Essential Eight and Support Zero Trust Approach to Network Security

Check Point® Software Technologies Ltd. (NASDAQ: CHKP), a leading provider of cyber security solutions globally, today announced that MidCoast Council in New South Wales, Australia, has deployed Check Point Infinity, the leading cyber security architecture built to prevent sophisticated Fifth Generation attacks across networks, cloud deployments, endpoints, mobile and IoT devices. This is inaddition to adopting Check Point Quantum Security Gateways to bolster their network security, Check Point Quantum Lightspeed to secure internal corporate networks and Check Point Harmony Endpoint for PC and device protection.
 

MidCoast Council provides provides administration for local government entities, critical infrastructure and citizen services serving around 95,000 residents and spanning 10,000 square kilometers with Taree and Forster-Tuncurry being its two major population centres. Their network connects 80 sites, including district offices, citizen services centres and critical infrastructure plants, primarily using a private microwave radio network while additional sites connect to the network via 4G or VPN. Services are delivered from a primary data centre with a secondary data centre providing backup and disaster recovery capabilities. With more than 1100 users including external contractors, the IT team also supports nine communications towers, around 30 Vcentre Hosts, 250 virtual machines, 200 desktop PCs, 1,000 mobile devices and 600 Windows laptops.
 

“We needed a holistic, consistent security solution and selected Check Point partner, S5 Technology Group, to help us achieve our goals of achieving a single-pane-of-glass management and flexibility to support immediate and future deployments without disruption,” said Mike Nelson, Coordinator IT Infrastructure for MidCoast Council.
 

Check Point Infinity provides the council with a comprehensive security solution stack across its data centres, endpoints and remote locations and will support the organisation to simplify its complex infrastructure.
Consolidated management and logging make it easy for the MidCoast Council IT team to see the entire infrastructure. As a collaborative environment, all Check Point Infinity solutions integrate seamlessly, allowing the team to work together.
 

“Check Point Infinity allows us to evolve our security without having to know all of our requirements ahead of time,” said Nelson. “We have immediately secured our critical infrastructure with the most advanced security humanly possible. Check Point Infinity gives us complete flexibility. Going forward, we can easily adapt protection as we need it. For example, we’re migrating email to Microsoft 365 in the cloud. We’ll be able to extend Zero Trust to new areas of our network. Future cloud deployments will be protected. Check Point provides us with the comprehensive, consolidated, collaborative approach needed to secure whatever comes next.”
 

In agreement, Aaron Beard, Senior Network Administrator for MidCoast Council said, “In addition, Check Point has helped the council evolve its level of security maturity as defined by the Australian Cyber Security Centre’s Essential Eight security framework,” “Check Point Infinity increased our security performance—in throughput and protection—in ways that other vendors couldn’t.”
 

MidCoast Council has deployed Check Point Quantum Security Gateways for network edge security in the main office, to secure segmented traffic at local sites. They also upgraded security in its primary data centre using Check Point Quantum Lightspeed for up to 3 Tbps throughput with ultra-low latency, for the organisation’s internal corporate networks.
 

“The single most effective solution for us so far has been the Quantum Security Gateways,” said Beard. “We’ve relied extensively Identity awareness capabilities which give us granular visibility of users, groups and machines to support critical water quality and wastewater management operations. Remote access VPN features were vital during the pandemic, and intrusion prevention system (IPS) significantly boosted protection of networks and servers.”
 

Check Point Harmony Endpoint protects the organisation’s PCs and laptops, preventing the most imminent threats to endpoints across the environment. MidCoast Council also chose Check Point Horizon Managed Prevention & Response (MDR) for 24x7x365 security infrastructure monitoring and threat intelligence by Check Point elite experts enabling the council to prevent, monitor, detect, investigate and remediate attacks with a single solution.
 

Les Williamson, Regional Director, Check Point Software Technologies Australia & New Zealand, said, “In conjunction with S5 Technology Group, we are delighted to have successfully deployed a cyber security future-fit architecture enabling MidCoast Council to transform its approach to securing its people, data and assets, while moving away from legacy infrastructure while all along aligning with the Essential Eight and a Zero Trust approach.”
 

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Check Point Software Technologies Ltd. (www.checkpoint.com) is a leading provider of cyber security solutions to corporate enterprises and governments globally. Check Point Infinity’s portfolio of solutions protects enterprises and public organizations from 5th generation cyber-attacks with an industry leading catch rate of malware, ransomware, and other threats. Infinity comprises four core pillars delivering uncompromised security and generation V threat prevention across enterprise environments: Check Point Harmony, for remote users; Check Point CloudGuard, to automatically secure clouds; and Check Point Quantum, to protect network perimeters and datacenters, all controlled by the industry’s most comprehensive, intuitive unified security management; Check Point Horizon, a prevention-first security operations suite. Check Point protects over 100,000 organizations of all sizes.