Check Point’s new Secure Access Service Edge (SASE) offering is now called Harmony SASE.

The world has changed in the last few years, and the old way of securing a standard on-premises network, with its notions of inside and outside the perimeter, is no longer enough. There are many reasons for this change including the rise of public cloud networks for hosting applications and data, and the enhanced workflow agility from software as a service platforms like Salesforce and Office 365.

Add to that the increasing trend of remote work and the need for high performance connections, and it’s clear legacy VPNs in a handful of locations can no longer serve a modern workforce.

This is what Harmony SASE is all about: a network security solution designed to protect hybrid work and provide secure anywhere access to cloud and on-prem networks. A solution that acknowledges that while the cloud is now an essential tool requiring new security paradigms, there is still a need for on-prem networking and branch-level connectivity and security.

Why Harmony SASE?

The concept of SASE was originally conceived by Gartner identifying the challenges of modern network security and the need for a better way to protect corporate networks.

Harmony SASE improves on the Gartner model by adding a unique solution to the latency problem endemic to many internet security solutions. We use a hybrid approach that combines on-device protection, enabling direct internet access, with cloud-based protection. This results in 2x faster internet security, when compared with other solutions on the market.

Harmony SASE’s key features include:

  • Faster Secure Internet Access: 2x faster internet security performance vs competitors, and secure access for both remote users and branch offices, bolstered by cloud and on-device network protections. This ensures a native, localized browsing experience with tighter security and privacy.
  • Zero Trust Access: Efficient and reliable system assuring least privilege access for all, regardless of location or device, facilitated by full mesh connectivity between users, branches, and applications.
  • Ease of Deployment: Recognized as the easiest-to-implement SASE solution, Harmony SASE boasts a one-hour rollout and user-friendly administration.
  • Optimized SD-WAN Performance: Features include industry-leading AI Threat Prevention combined with smooth internet and network connectivity, with autonomous steering for over 10,000 applications. The solution ensures uninterrupted web conferencing through seamless link failover and a dedicated steering policy.
  • Unified Management: Single-vendor SASE with a consolidated console for the entire on-premises and cloud firewall

Harmony SASE Internet Access

Harmony SASE provides security for your remote workers whenever they visit the public internet. We make sure that malware doesn’t infiltrate your network by infecting an end user device, and we also put guardrails on web access to prevent employees from stumbling across a malicious site.

Our unique solution puts many of these capabilities on the user device to reduce the impact on network performance as much as possible. The Check Point lab recently tested Internet Access against competing solutions and found it was 2x faster thanks to the hybrid approach. It also means users don’t lose their localization benefits by connecting to a proxy hundreds of miles away. Compliance and privacy issues are also improved since SSL inspection happens right on the device.

Harmony SASE Private Access

Private Access provides private, secure zero trust access to company resources whether they’re in the public cloud, a software-as-a-service platform, or on-premises servers.

Every Private Access customer also receives private, IP addresses for their gateways that can be used for allowlisting to SaaS platforms, as well as cloud resources—though for the latter we highly recommend secure tunnels as it’s a more robust option.

SD-WAN

Harmony SASE also reaches across the company product catalog to include Check Point’s SD-WAN, a software blade that runs on Check Point hardware. It can optimize routing for more than 10,000 business applications, and supports features such as subsecond failover, and real-time connectivity monitoring for jitter, latency, and packet loss. Plus, since SD-WAN is embedded into Check Point Secure Gateways you get advanced threat prevention with a full security stack.

With a clear vision to deliver the fastest and most secure SASE solution based on the Perimeter 81 acquisition combined with Check Point’s SD-WAN, we are ready to redefine cybersecurity for hybrid and cloud environments.

To learn more book a demo today.

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