Today’s security approach is siloed. Each deployed security tool is designed to provide a specific type of protection across different areas like the network, endpoints, email, and cloud environments. This hybrid methodology, often requiring dozens of systems, leads to several security and operational challenges for security operations center (SOC) and network operations center (NOC) teams.
Adopting a hybrid environment is unavoidable, and Gartner[1] anticipates that “By 2025, over 50% of network firewall deployments will involve more than two deployment factors from the same vendor — up from less than 10% in 2023.” [1] While the benefits of this new ecosystem are vast, it increases the complexity of security and management.
Having a hybrid ecosystem results in several management inefficiencies for security teams. Fragmented policies make achieving Zero Trust difficult, due to policy conflicts and limited visibility. Lack of visibility can also cause security gaps, especially in the face of multi-vector attacks. Finally, administration and operations of security ecosystems is time consuming and error prone.
Check Point’s Infinity Platform has made strides in recent years to stand out as the solution to fragmented security environments. Our newest innovations include 8 AI-enhanced capabilities, enabling teams to simplify operations of hybrid environments.
Radically Simplify Security Management with AI
Overcoming the pitfalls of silos while protecting hybrid ecosystems demands a comprehensive suite of tools that ensure unified management.
Check Point introduces new capabilities in two security management software packages, to enforce Zero Trust and compliance, automate threat response, and streamline management of hybrid environments.
These software packages provide the most compelling and popular management capabilities for network security and admin teams.
The innovations included in this software management upgrade address 3 key common challenges experienced by organizations with hybrid environments.
Unified Identity & Policy
By leveraging AI and identity awareness, administrators can implement more effective and granular security policies, ensuring that only authorized users have access to critical resources. CISOs can be confident that their zero-trust strategies are being effectively enforced.
Check Point delivers high-level visibility and granular insights to detect policy violations of organizational guidelines. This ensures that CISOs and security teams can maintain compliance with internal standards and regulatory requirements. The 4 capabilities that enable unified identity and Zero Trust enforcement are as follows:
Compliance: Translate regulatory requirements into security practices and monitor security policies for real-time alerts of compliance violations.
Infinity Identity: Achieve Zero Trust with centralized identity provider management across your hybrid ecosystem.
Quantum Policy Auditor: Quickly identify policies that violate organizational guidelines with a consolidated, business-centric, summary view.
Quantum Policy Insights: Analyze existing security policies and provide actionable recommendations for tightening security posture.
Collaborative Threat Prevention
Automation and cohesion are needed to break silos and prevent security gaps. Now, organizations can identify and block threats across multiple enforcement points in real-time with Playblocks. This solution acts fast and eliminates the risk of human error, to keep your organization ahead of threats, reduce burden on SOC teams, and streamline security operations.
Infinity Playblocks automatically carries out comprehensive responses the moment an attack is detected anywhere in the environment. Cross-vector collaborative preventative actions immediately contain threats, prevent damage, mitigate lateral spread, and reduce operational overhead. This reduces the mean time to remediation for fast time to prevention.
Simple Operations & Monitoring
Reducing the complexity of operations and monitoring can be accomplished by leveraging AI-based insights to streamline management, reduce tedious work and achieve holistic visibility across the security infrastructure stack. This empowers teams to better allocate resources for more robust security measures and high-level development.
AI-based predictive analytics proactively identify and address potential issues before they impact operations and cause downtime. Furthermore, teams can now more easily handle capacity planning for infrastructure growth, health, and lifecycle management. Below are 3 products that streamline operations and achieve these benefits:
SmartEvent: Event management and reporting with graphical representations of a wide variety of events including TLS Inspection, DNS, logging, zero phishing, cyber attacks, etc.
AIOps: Real-time monitoring and analysis of security infrastructure health, including key KPIs like CPU and memory utilization in a single-pane-of-glass. Provides proactive remediation guidance to preempt system issues.
Infinity AI Copilot: Infinity AI Copilot is a digital assistant that knows an organization’s policies, access rules, objects, logs, as well as all product documentation – allowing it to provide contextualized and complete answers.
Elevate your security management today
Supercharge your security team’s productivity and ability to manage complexity by leveraging AI with our two new management bundles. Schedule a demo with our security experts today.
[1] 2024 Gartner® Market Guide for Hybrid Mesh Firewall Platforms, 16 January 2024, by Rajpreet Kaur, Adam Hils. Used herein with permission. All rights reserved.
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