Alkira and Check Point Software Technologies Announce Technology Alliance for Cybersecurity

Cloud networking pioneer Alkira ® and cloud security specialist Check Point Software Technologies (NASDAQ: CHKP), a leading provider of global cybersecurity solutions, today announced a technology alliance to provide CloudGuard firewalls from Check Point Software on Alkira’s Cloud Network Infrastructure as a Service ( CNaaS ) . This comes as organizations deploying application workloads in the cloud are wrestling with the complexity of implementing consistent, enterprise-wide security controls that span cloud, multi-cloud, and on-premises environments.
The Check Point CloudGuard platform provides cloud-native security with advanced threat prevention for all assets and workloads, allowing customers to implement the same robust security in the cloud that they are used to with on-premises systems. Alkira delivers a high-performance cloud network as a service with global virtual infrastructure, advanced routing, intelligent service insertion, and dynamic autoscaling, simplifying setup and day two operations for enterprise cloud networks and deployments. of security.
” Alkira and Check Point simplify security implementations and make it easy for enterprise customers to apply a single security posture across their entire enterprise network spanning cloud, multi-cloud, and data center or existing colocation facilities. delivery of Alkira ‘s virtual network infrastructure and Check Point ‘s security management tools as a service enables enterprises to avoid the cost and complexity of DIY solutions, and provides guaranteed performance and scalability,” said Atif . Khan, CTO and founder of Alkira .
“The combination of Check Point CloudGuard and Alkira simplifies the process of provisioning and ongoing management in the cloud networking environment, which is a huge win for enterprise customers. The Check Point CloudGuard platform provides cloud-native security with prevention advanced threat detection for all assets and workloads, across public, hybrid and multi-cloud environments, enabling customers to benefit from a single, unified security platform,” added TJ Gonen , chief cloud security officer at Check Point.