Future-proof your security with a hybrid mesh firewall

Hybrid mesh firewalls set the new standard in enterprise cyber security strategy integrating multiple firewall form factors into a single unified management plane to secure hybrid, distributed environments.

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What is a hybrid mesh firewall?

Hybrid workplace, clouds and networks are here to stay. Almost a third of full-time employees work in a hybrid model while nearly half of workloads reside in the cloud.

A hybrid mesh firewall is designed to offer unified firewall security across a distributed organization. This system is centrally monitored and managed via a single, cloud-based management tool.

With a hybrid mesh framework, organizations can secure their entire IT infrastructure while maintaining comprehensive visibility and control.

Challenges with a fragmented security approach

Hybrid environments create cyber risk

Hybrid networks, clouds and workforces increase your attack surface and require different firewall enforcement points to stay secure. Unfortunately, different products vary in their ability to prevent threats.

Consequences

Inconsistent levels of security effectiveness increase the risk of breaches, data loss and unauthorized access across networks, clouds, users and devices.

Fragmented visibility leads to compliance complexity

Securing your attack surface using multiple best-of-breed tools results in an IT infrastructure riddled with blind spots, as well as disparate logs and reports, each reflecting only a small part of your environment.

Consequences

Without unified visibility and a consolidated audit trail, it becomes challenging to maintain and demonstrate compliance with regulations, such as PCI-DSS and GDPR.

Administration and operations overhead

Having a patchwork of tools means administrators need to spend more time learning different features and moving between consoles, while security operations analysts contend with excessive uncorrelated alerts.

Consequences

A splintered IT environment creates risks in silos that require more time, manpower and effort to mitigate. This results in security gaps and a weakened risk posture.

Procurement and budget limitations

With more point products come more licenses and more personnel to operate them. Moreover, each new tool requires integration into your existing security stack, costing time, effort and money.

Consequences

The dynamic nature of IT environments requires the agility to change from one firewall enforcement type to another.
Traditional models with complex pricing are no longer enough.

Benefits of a hybrid mesh firewall

A hybrid mesh firewall takes an array of firewall enforcement points and brings them together under a single unified cloud-based management system. By doing so, it provides various benefits to the organization, including the following:

Reduced Complexity:
A unified console streamlines feature discovery and dashboard navigation, while a cloud-delivered platform ensures agility, scalability, and continuous operation.

Consistent Security:
Centralized management of various firewall points, including cloud, virtual, on-premises, and firewall-as-a-service, simplifies policy enforcement and maintains consistent security standards.

Unified Visibility:
Hybrid mesh firewalls enhance visibility via consolidated logging, monitoring, event management, and forensics, aiding compliance and bridging security gaps.

Increased Automation:
By integrating automation, AI, and ML, hybrid mesh firewall platforms enhance security teams’ scalability, enabling faster and more effective responses to potential threats while optimizing resource utilization.

The Infinity Platform sets the standard for hybrid mesh firewalls

The Infinity Platform gives you the flexibility you need to stay secure in today’s evolving IT landscape. With unified monitoring and security operations, the platform delivers dynamic policy enforcement so you can transition workloads to any environment at any time.

The gold standard in security administration

The Infinity Platform is recognized by analysts, partners and customers alike for its intuitive policy management and robust use-case support.

The platform delivers consistent security and performance across hardware, virtual, cloud and as-a-service firewalls, with unified monitoring and security operations while supporting zero trust initiatives through granular controls.

Reduces administrative overhead across firewall enforcement points
Simplifies management through a single intuitive cloud-based console
Robust cloud support through integration with public and private cloud providers
Consistent security and performance across use cases

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Going beyond the hybrid mesh firewall – Infinity Platform enables you to meet tomorrow’s security needs with confidence

Offering the agility to scale security anywhere and threat prevention that is second to none, Check Point’s Infinity Platform protects diverse environments across hybrid networks, workforces and clouds–all from a unified management console with a flexible pricing model.

Industry-best catch rate

Get consistent industry-leading threat prevention to block zero-day malware and phishing

Agile technology platform

Easily scale security wherever it’s needed, across cloud, virtual, on-prem and as-a-service firewalls

Flexible, predictable pricing

An all-inclusive per-user per-annum pricing model lets you transition between enforcement points as needed

Standard-setting management

The Infinity Portal provides a single
console for managing policy and controls with unified visibility and security operations.

A CISO’s guide to hybrid mesh firewall platforms

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Explore hybrid mesh firewall components of the Infinity Platform

Uniquely AI-powered and cloud-delivered, the Check Point Infinity Platform is the industry’s most comprehensive, consolidated, and collaborative cyber security management system.

The Infinity Platform delivers the key components of a hybrid mesh firewall, including on-premises firewalls from Quantum Security Gateways, cloud-native and virtual firewalls from CloudGuard Network Security, as-a-service firewalls from Harmony SASE and unified cloud-based administration and operations through the Infinity Portal. Additional Infinity Platform Services include XDR/MDR, generative AI assistants and more.

CloudGuard Network

Automated, advanced threat prevention and unified security management across hybrid-clouds

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Harmony SASE

2x faster internet security, with full-mesh secure access and optimized SD-WAN

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Infinity Platform Services

AI-powered security operations, threat Intelligence and Generative AI Services

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Infinity Platform Agreement

Get an all-inclusive flexible, predictable pricing model that lets you stay agile

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Quantum Security Gateways

Our firewalls deliver advanced threat prevention, IoT security, SD-WAN and more.

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Infinity Portal

Unified management across security capabilities through a single pane of glass

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Check Point delivers incredible customer outcomes

All customer stories

“Check Point’s Infinity Platform allows us to evolve our security without having to know all of our requirements ahead of time. We immediately secured our critical infrastructure with the most advanced security humanly possible. At the same time, we can add and adapt our solutions to meet the needs we know are coming later.”

-Mike Nelson
Coordinator IT Infrastructure,
MidCoast Council

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“An unexpected benefit of Check Point has been for our security operations. With the Check Point Infinity XDR/XPR solution, we have single-pane-of-glass visibility into everything. The threat detection and event correlation has proven to be highly accurate and allowed us to pick up threats we otherwise would not have seen.”

-Wes Farris
Director of Information Security and Enterprise Architecture,
Harris Center for Mental Health and IDD

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“With Check Point and CloudGuard, I have peace of mind knowing we can launch applications in the future and store highly sensitive citizen and operational information data in the cloud without worry. We know everything is secure, available and already integrated with our other systems.”

-Kobi Noah
Cheif Information Officer,
Ramat-Gan Municipality

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“With Check Point, we’re able to quantify our security. Our management team is very enthusiastic because they can actually see the control we have. We can show where a vulnerability might exist, or report that we’re 100% compliant. Reporting visibility is invaluable for executive decision-making and planning.”

-Godfrey Mathumo
IT infrastructure and Operations Manager,
Botswana Power Corporation

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