General Information

About this Guide

This guide explains how to configure IPsec tunnels and service chain traffic from an Aruba SD-Branch to Check Point Harmony Connect.

About Aruba SD-WAN

Aruba Central is a cloud-hosted web management for Aruba devices. It is an open, programmable and scalable cloud scale architecture. Through Aruba Central console you can quickly establish an SD-WAN overlay fabric to connect data centers, branches, campuses, and colocation facilities to improve network speed, security, and efficiency.

In this guide we will protect branch offices by creating two IPsec tunnels to Check Point Harmony Connect.

About Check Point Harmony Connect

Check Point Harmony Connect is a cloud security platform that provides Check Point latest threat prevention and access control for branch offices. Companies can connect their present routing equipment or SD-WAN device to Harmony Connect without other dedicated hardware by Check Point. Harmony Connect is a full software-as-a-service solution that needs no customer maintenance.

Check Point security product line includes: preventing known attacks using reputation services, signatures and bot communication prevention, preventing unknown attacks using cloud-based sandboxing, an Access Control Policy including Content Awareness, HTTPS Inspection and Application Control, and a web-based management for security events and log monitoring, policy, and site configuration.

For more information, see the Harmony Connect Administration Guide.