It’s 8 AM EST and your VPN is already at 85% capacity. New York comes online in an hour, and your help desk is already fielding ‘slow connection’ tickets.
Sounds familiar? You’re not alone. The appliance-based VPN was built for a different world—one where most people worked 5 days a week from the office; remote access at scale wasn’t an everyday need; and cloud apps were rare. Centralizing traffic through a handful of connection points made sense then. Today, with widely distributed teams and resources, this model is being stretched past its limits.
The modern enterprise needs security solutions that help people work from anywhere with high-performance connectivity.
That leaves CIOs with two basic options: expand and scale existing infrastructure, or seamlessly build on top of it with a global-ready, cloud-based solution.
The New Demands of Hybrid Work
This shift to ubiquitous remote work means employees now expect frictionless access to SaaS apps, internal systems, the cloud, and the web regardless of location.
For IT teams, that translates into specific requirements:
- Secure access across on-prem, cloud, and remote environments.
- High-performance connectivity to enhance workforce productivity.
- Consistent policy enforcement.
- Robust threat prevention and network visibility.
It’s Not the Appliance—It’s the Use Case
Appliances like the next-generation firewall (NGFW) remain critical for internal segmentation and data center protection, but when managing global remote traffic, the cloud edge is more effective.
Instead of routing traffic through a centralized appliance, it’s better to enforce zero trust policies at globally distributed points of presence (PoPs).
Check Point’s Harmony SASE delivers exactly that and more:
- Grant application access—cloud or internal—based on identity and posture.
- Eliminate backhauling so employees can access critical apps faster.
- Apply consistent access policies from a single console for better visibility.
- Inspect traffic in real-time with AI-backed, on-device threat prevention.
Our SASE solution complements your on-prem appliances for a unified ecosystem managed from Check Point’s Infinity Portal.
Remote users gain secure, cloud-agnostic zero trust access; robust internet security keeps them safe from web-based threats; and SaaS usage becomes visible and manageable—all while your existing firewall appliance continues to defend your physical and datacenter environments.
SASE is additive, not disruptive.
Modernize Access Without Losing Control
Consider one of our customers, a US-based network of hospitals and physician’s offices. The company wanted to move away from their legacy VPN without compromising core infrastructure.
By deploying Check Point’s SASE they:
- Enabled secure, seamless remote access for clinical staff.
- Maintained the performance and scalability required for high-demand healthcare environments—without sacrificing compliance needs.
- Gained 10x faster performance for secure internet access.
The Hybrid Security Stack, Modernized
The modern organization doesn’t need to choose between cloud and on-prem— it needs the best of both. With Check Point’s SASE at the center of a hybrid mesh network security architecture, you employ the tools that make sense for each use case, amplifying their strengths.
Get agility, performance, and protection—everywhere your team works.
Ready to evolve your security perimeter?
Talk to a Check Point’s SASE expert today to explore your next step.