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Cloud Security May 11, 2021

Companies’ 5 Million Personal identifiable information records detected on an AWS service due to misconception of users

Highlights Check Point Research (CPR) identified a trend of user’s misconception of service on AWS system manager, resulting in personal records detection 5 million personally identifiable information (PII) records and credit card transactions revealed by…

Cloud Security May 5, 2021

Check Your Privilege – the Risks of Privilege Escalation In the Cloud

Facebook founder and CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s famous motto, ‘move fast and break things’ is believed to be one of the drivers behind the company’s innovations and growth. However, moving faster than you’d planned isn’t always…

Cloud Security May 4, 2021

Enhance Application Security with Nutanix Flow and Check Point CloudGuard

By Daniel Mirkin, CloudGuard Project Manager, and Abhishek Tiwari, Senior Director, Product Management, Nutanix Flow, published May 4, 2021 Nutanix provides a “web-scale, hyperconverged infrastructure solution purpose-built for virtualization and both containerized and private cloud…

Cloud Security April 14, 2021

AWS Marketplace offerings explained: CloudGuard adds AWS GWLB

By Jonathan Maresky, CloudGuard Product Manager, published April 14, 2021 Too much choice is often confusing. Think about all the different types of cereal, perfume, or even political parties in some countries. However, often the…

Cloud Security April 9, 2021

“The WAF Is Dead” (and we know who did it)

TJ Gonen, Head of Cloud Security Products, Check Point The past couple of decades has turned the Web Application Firewall (WAF) into a ubiquitous piece of security kit. Any organization with a web application (which…

Cloud Security March 31, 2021

Check Point Software and HashiCorp partner to help organizations automate firewall operations while maintaining security posture and compliance.

By, John Guo, Cloud Alliance Architect, Check Point Software Technologies Firewalls can be the main bottleneck when it comes to publishing new applications because they cannot keep up with the dynamic nature of modern applications…

Cloud Security March 25, 2021

The Advantages of a Unified Approach to Cloud Data Security

By, Amit Sharon, Head of Customer Community Cloud computing is disrupting security models, leaving organizations struggling to figure out the most effective and efficient ways to mitigate risks to cloud-based digital assets. IT Central has…

Cloud Security March 24, 2021

Check Point CloudGuard Network Security now integrates with Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s new Flexible Network Load Balancer

Jeff Engel Cloud Alliance Engineering Check Point is thrilled to announce support for Oracle Cloud Infrastructure’s new Flexible Network Load Balancer with CloudGuard Network Security. The Flexible Network Load Balancer allows organizations to create a…

Cloud Security March 10, 2021

Check Point CloudGuard NDR integrates with AWS VPC Traffic Mirroring

By Jonathan Maresky, CloudGuard Product Manager, published March 10, 2021 Cybersecurity is a cat-and-mouse game between threat actors and defenders. It is also a constant arms race with both sides constantly improving their arsenals based…

Cloud Security March 8, 2021

What Should You Know About Cloud Security Solutions?

By Guilherme (Gui) Alvarenga, Product Marketing Manager, Cloud Security Cloud security is a complex topic from a technical perspective, but the basics are easy to grasp. If you’re like most business decision makers, security is…