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Protect Your Network Edge with VMware SD-WAN and Check Point Security

By Russ Schafer, Head of Product Marketing, Security Platforms, published December 6th, 2019

As enterprise branch offices expand their use of cloud applications, they are adopting software defined wide area networking (SD-WAN) to improve application performance by intelligently routing traffic directly to the Internet without passing it through the data center. Connecting branch offices directly to the Internet increases their cyber security risk and management costs.  Securing SD-WAN connections to the cloud is essential in helping enterprises combat today’s advanced cyber threats.

Check Point and VeloCloud, now part of VMware developed a joint solution to assure the performance and security of enterprise and cloud applications over the Internet and hybrid-WAN, while dramatically simplifying deployments and reducing costs.

Last month at VMworld 2019 Europe where 15,000 attendees gathered, Sanjay Uppal, VP and GM of VeloCloud, now part of VMware and Aviv Abramovich, Head of Security Service Product Management for Check Point, showed how to secure branch office SD-WAN connections to the cloud. The session is titled SD-WAN and Security: A Two-pronged approach to a Strategic Network Edge, [To listen to the presentation, click here.]

Highlights from this discussion include showing how:

 

To get more information on how Check Point and VMware SD-WAN protect branch office connectivity to the Internet, check out the free demos and on-demand webinar content.

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