Imagine a wise Jedi knight, ever-vigilant, honest, and focused on what truly matters: protecting your Crown Jewels in the Cloud. This Jedi, like a wise Master, guides you with a focus on the impact on your organization. With Check Point CloudGuard, the Force is always with you, protecting your code, no matter in which galaxy or universe it resides. In this blog, we’ll go deeper into how Check Point CloudGuard can help you achieve this security, much like having a Jedi knight who secures your code and entire Software Delivery Lifecycle process.

May CloudGuard be with you!

Where should You start protecting Your Code?

The CloudGuard Platform: Connecting the Dots

The CloudGuard Platform connects the dots and provides full context in your cloud journey rather than focusing solely on single events. The true power of cloud security solutions lies not in the number of features a cybersecurity vendor offers but in the “context and outcome” for Security Operation Centers. Today, organizations are overwhelmed with events and alerts about various security incidents. Most tools lack the functionality to provide what is really needed: focus, especially since Security Practices can be deployed in many stages such as in Coding, on the Repo Level, within the CI/CD Pipeline or in Runtime.

However, CloudGuard as your guarding Jedi is always with you and helps you drawing these lines from code to runtime.

Why not adding covering all Stages in one true Platform?

Rather fixing issues only in one Point, Best Practices demonstrate clear advantages while connecting Code to Runtime. As such, this is exactly Check Point’s approach; based on the nature of your application or your microservice.

 

Ownership and Responsibility

Effective risk management is a core element of CloudGuard. It combines business risks with technical findings, providing unique context in a world where an overwhelming number of alerts is the new norm. Customers can define severities based on business impact and unique cloud assets. This ensures that alerts are categorized, addressed, and integrated as a modern feedback loop into existing cybersecurity processes. This approach not only generates a technical view but also translates into clear context and accountability for cyber and cloud security teams.

Code Scanning: Designed for the Era of Microservices

Check Point Code Security, part of the CloudGuard Platform, was designed from the ground up by developers for developers, with a dedicated Focus on securing modern Microservices.

This key difference advances code security into safe coding practices and translate into these Core Functionalities: 

SBOM

Check Point Code Security generates a full Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) in SPDX and/or CyclonDX format. This allows scans to be performed once, saving compute resources. Security findings are identified in almost real-time as SBOM information syncs with vulnerability databases. This backend process requires no additional scans at the code level or manual interaction. You can export SBOMs to comply with national and international laws regarding license verification and quickly identify where impacted packages are distributed across your cloud environment.

Vulnerabilities

CloudGuard Code Security detects vulnerabilities in third-party libraries, regardless of whether they are deployed in container environments, serverless functions, virtual machines, or CI/CD. With the power of SBOM, container images are scanned once, reducing overhead while increasing productivity and security.

IaC Misconfigurations

Check Point supports more than 3,000 rules, empowering organizations to scan Infrastructure as Code (IaC) templates such as Terraform and CloudFormation. Scans can be executed on developer computers during development and in CI/CD.

Secrets and PII

CloudGuard supports over 650 detectors for secrets and personally identifiable information (PII), scanning in record time—usually under five seconds. These detectors are context-oriented and trained through machine learning, part of Check Point’s scan binary, supporting offline and air-gapped environments.

Malware, Threats, and Malicious URLs

Check Point scans for malware, threats, and malicious URLs, integrating code scanning for these elements into its AI-powered Threat Cloud. Compromised external sources are recognized during the scan process without the need for external manual validations.

Common Use Cases & Best Practices for Code Scanning

Integrating into Air-Gapped Environments

Check Point’s logic, described as detectors within the binary, allows scans to run on developer computers even without an internet connection. Scan results can be processed easily in any on-premise tool or (with Internet Access) in the SaaS Portal with all the advantages a true Platform can provide.

Support for Large-Scale Environments

For companies with thousands of developers, Check Point offers a clever solution: run Code Security as a GitHub or GitLab bot. Scans are performed based on certain criteria, such as pull requests, covering all developers without altering their operating systems.

Advanced Code Security for External Parties

Organizations working with external software houses can integrate code security effortlessly. By executing scans as a Lambda function or in Docker, external code can be scanned before merging into a centralized code base.

Detection from Code to Cloud

As part of Check Point’s CNAPP, Security Operation Centre teams can identify where code-related issues first occurred, how they are distributed in the cloud ecosystem, and which workloads are impacted. This powerful tool allows organizations to focus on what truly matters rather than chasing alerts.

Conclusion

Check Point’s Code Security’s Core is one of the industry’s most advanced code

Security Solution providing:

  1. Super-Fast Scans: Secret scanning usually completes in under five seconds. Advanced Detection Mechanisms: With over 600 detectors for secrets, 3,000 for IaC scanning, and additional detectors for misconfigurations, Check Point’s code scanner has the widest coverage in the market.
  2. Low False Positive Rates: Advanced ML-powered signatures ensure low false positives and excellent detection accuracy.
  3. The Platform Matters: Check Point’s Code Security, a central part of the CloudGuard Platform, allows customers to focus on what truly matters. Connecting the dots and adding context to previously overwhelming data makes a true difference, just like the wisdom of a Jedi knight securing your journey from code to runtime.

May CloudGuard be with you!

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