Dynamic hybrid data center cloud environments are growing, leading to a larger attack surface. The mix of on-premises and multiple cloud platforms creates complex interconnections that are hard to monitor. Traditional network segmentation is insufficient as workloads move fluidly between on-premises data centers and the cloud, leaving protection gaps. Without proper tools, security professionals lack full visibility, allowing lateral threats to go undetected and spread within the organization.
Proactively Stopping Lateral Movement to Prevent Breaches
Check Point Software Technologies Ltd and Illumio announced a strategic partnership to enable enterprises to prevent lateral movement and breaches through microsegmentation and proactive threat prevention. The integration between the Check Point Infinity Platform and the Illumio Platform delivers rapid identification and mitigation of lateral movement risks across hybrid and multi-cloud environments using advanced microsegmentation enforcement. This collaboration empowers customers to combine Check Point Quantum Force Firewalls, CloudGuard Network Security, Infinity Threat Cloud AI, and AI Powered Security Management with Illumio Segmentation and Illumio Insights to neutralize threats by halting lateral movements and strengthening overall cyber security.
“Stopping lateral movement is critical to breach prevention,” says Itai Greenberg, Chief Revenue Officer at Check Point Software. “Our partnership with Illumio delivers unmatched visibility and adaptive policy enforcement, empowering organizations to contain threats fast. It also demonstrates the strength of our hybrid mesh architecture, which we envision as an open garden, and our commitment to driving Zero Trust strategies with industry leaders.”
CHECK POINT CUSTOMERS CAN GET MORE DETAILS ABOUT THE PARTNERSHIP HERE
Identifying Lateral Risks and Dynamically Blocking Threats
Check Point’s Quantum Force and CloudGuard Firewalls serve as critical enforcement points that intercept and block malicious traffic. When suspicious activity is detected, Check Point’s AI Security Management software dynamically updates security policies across all gateways. The integration with Illumio provides additional AI-driven insights to identify risks and attack paths across the network. This combination stops unauthorized lateral movement, protects essential assets, and ensures consistent Zero Trust security across hybrid environments.
Key benefits of the integration include:
- Collaborative approach to zero trust: Protect critical assets with effective microsegmentation across hybrid environments without deployment complexity, simplifying and accelerating zero trust adoption
- Lateral movement prevention: Catch attacks earlier and prevent them from spreading laterally across networks, clouds and networks, reducing breach risk and associated costs
- Advanced threat intelligence: Combine threat intelligence from ThreatCloud AI and Illumio Insights to identify new risks and attack routes more effectively, minimizing security incidents
“This powerful collaboration between Illumio and Check Point marks a significant step forward in cyber security threat intelligence and breach containment,” says Andrew Rubin, CEO and Founder of Illumio. “The integration of Illumio and Check Point represents a shift towards smarter, more adaptive cyber security by enhancing visibility, enabling real-time threat detection and response, and providing adaptive security measures that align with Zero Trust principles. Our proactive approach helps security teams connect the dots and uncover hidden threats more efficiently to avoid cyber disasters.”
ILLUMIO CUSTOMERS CAN GET MORE DETAILS ABOUT THE PARTNERSHIP HERE
Illumio Insights and Illumio Segmentation are integral components of the Illumio Platform, the first cybersecurity platform focused on breach containment. The world’s first CDR built on an AI security graph, Illumio Insights helps organizations quickly identify and detect threats. Illumio Segmentation contains breaches, protects critical assets, and enables instant response. Together, these solutions help identify and mitigate risks, contain attacks, and enhance overall cyber resilience.
Check Point’s Quantum Force is a series of AI-powered, cloud-delivered security gateways that provide unified security and policy management across on-premises, cloud, and Firewall-as-a-Service environments, simplifying operations and enhancing security efficacy. The Quantum and CloudGuard product lines are part of Check Point’s Infinity Platform which is uniquely AI-powered, and cloud-delivered, to protect your enterprise against cyber-attacks, from the data center, cloud to the branch office through unified management.
See the Check Point and Illumio Integration in Action at RSA
Combining AI-powered threat prevention with intelligent microsegmentation helps organizations build resilient security architectures, protecting critical assets in a dynamic landscape. This Check Point and Illumio partnership enhances zero trust security and addresses both current and emerging challenges in complex hybrid environments.
To see a demo of the integration of Check Point Quantum Force Firewall with Illumio Insights, visit the Illumio booth in the North Hall (#5670) at the RSA Conference in San Francisco, April 28 to May 1st. While at RSA, stop by the Check Point North Hall booth #6072 or attend one of the following RSAC activities.