Datasheet | Check Point Cloud Firewall as a Service

Overview

Organizations can struggle to scale security at the pace of their cloud workloads. Typical firewall deployments require manual provisioning, configuration, and lifecycle management. Managing tens of individual firewalls across multiple regions, virtual clouds, and subnets becomes costly and complex. Security teams need to deliver high-performance protection without the burden of managing firewalls at scale.

Why Cloud Firewall as a Service

To meet this challenge, Check Point has created Cloud Firewall as a Service, a turnkey, cloud-native service with 99.99% availability that removes the complexity of managing firewall infrastructure in public clouds. Cloud Firewall as a Service reduces security operations workload by taking over configuration, provisioning, and maintenance of cloud firewall software infrastructure. This allows security teams to focus on security policy creation, management, and incident response. Check Point offers Cloud Firewall where customers manage the firewall software infrastructure and Cloud Firewall as a Service, where Check Point manages the firewall software infrastructure.

Key Benefits

• Reduce Manual Effort: Eliminate hours of manual firewall infrastructure maintenance and the need for deep cloud network architecture knowledge.
• Enforce Compliance: Ensure continuous adherence to security standards such as PCI DSS, SOX, and GDPR through advanced threat prevention.
• Industry Leading Security: 99.9% threat prevention according to Miercom tests and 100% security effectiveness according to Cyberratings and OWASP Top 10.
• Increase Operational Efficiency: Free up valuable IT and security resources by leveraging expert-maintained cloud native firewall infrastructure.

Key Capabilities

• Customers Manage Policies: Stay in control with complete visibility and policy management responsibility.
• Convenient Unified Billing: No additional vendor to manage. Monthly cloud marketplace billing based on inspected traffic (GB).
• Firewall Infrastructure Managed by Check Point: Easily deploy AI-powered threat prevention with expertly managed firewall infrastructure.

How It Works

You subscribe to the firewall service just like other Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud offerings. Once subscribed to the service, Check Point will deploy and maintain the firewall infrastructure. Cloud Firewall as a Service includes firewall infrastructure management by Check Point security experts coupled with native integration with cloud vendor control planes to improve operational visibility, enabling dynamic policies based on cloud tags. This enables teams to leverage cloud infrastructure monitoring and logging frameworks as part of security operations. This is increasingly important as organizations rely on cloud network firewalls and WAF to secure their GenAI applications. Cloud Firewall as a Service helps customers maintain compliance, reduce manual effort, and strengthen their overall cloud security posture.

Easy to Deploy

Once you subscribe, you will gain access to Smart-1 console to create and manage network security policies. You can then:

• Add your own policies
• Enable macro and micro segmentation
• Combine multiple rule groups in one firewall for layered protection

Billing & Licensing

Cloud Firewall as a Service is sold on leading cloud marketplaces with consumption based on total gigabytes network traffic inspected, billed monthly.

• Charges are automatically included in your marketplace bill.
• No separate infrastructure deployment is required—firewall infrastructure is hosted and delivered via AWS, Azure, or Google Cloud and managed by Check Point.

Getting Started

Sign up for Cloud Firewall as a Service preview on Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud or you can learn more by attending a LIVE demo.