Smart-1 Cloud Overview

Check Point introduces the Quantum Smart-1 Cloud, an innovative, all-encompassing security management solution hosted entirely in the cloud. This solution is designed to streamline the management of security across various environments, including on-premise firewalls, networks, cloud services, mobile devices, and IoT systems.

Quantum Smart-1 Cloud provides a centralized management console in the cloud, enabling you to monitor and mitigate evolving threats across multiple devices and workloads. This solution scales effortlessly as the number of Security Gateways increases, eliminating concerns about physical storage limitations or log capacity.

With Quantum Smart-1 Cloud, you can automate crucial tasks like onboarding new Security Gateways, monitoring devices, managing facility power, and applying updates or hotfixes, saving you time and effort.

Quantum Smart-1 Cloud makes sure you always have the latest features and security capabilities, automatically updating your unified management platform to keep pace with the newest advancements in security.

Key Benefits

Always the Latest Security Management - Newest features automatically updated in a unified management platform.
Zero Maintenance - No need to monitor or for back up operations in your security management server.
On-demand Expansion - Seamlessly expand capacity with support of more gateways and storage.

Use Case

A typical Use Case is a company looking to increase operational efficiency and lower the complexity of their Security Management platform. With the Smart-1 Cloud application, companies can focus and invest more effort in managing their security.

Tasks such as maintenance efforts, keeping up to date with the latest software version and security updates, running backups, and health status checks all require quality effort and time. In addition, as companies expand, it is necessary to align the security solutions correctly, which may need new hardware and migration procedures. A transfer of these, and other, IT management tasks to Smart-1 Cloud application significantly improves a company's security management, and let you focus on what is really important - your business.

The deployment process of a new Management Service in Smart-1 Cloud takes about 1 minute. After the deployment is complete, you receive a new Management with the latest version - ready to connect gateways. An existing customer can select to migrate their on-premises environment to Smart-1 Cloud. After the migration, you can continue to work from the exact same point that you stopped working before the migration (your on-premises management). See Migrate.

Important - Migration to Smart-1 Cloud is only supported from Security Management Server version R81.10 and higher.

Supported Gateways and Versions

Category	Appliance Models	Software Version
Quantum Spark Security Gateways	3000 2000	R81.10.X and higher
	1900	R81.10.X and higher
	1800 1600	R81.10.X and higher R81.10.X and higher
	1500	R81.10.X and higher
	CloudGuard Edge	R81.10.X and higher
Quantum Security Gateways	23000 21000 16000 15000 13000 12000 9000 7000 6000 5000 4000	R81.10 and higher
CloudGuard Network	CloudGuard Network Security Gateway	R81.10 and higher
	Auto Scaling solutions	Azure VMSS AWS ASG GCP MIG
Security Gateways	Open Servers	R81.10 and higher
Quantum Maestro	All Maestro supported appliances	R81.10 and R81.20

Note - Smart-1 Cloud supports SecureXL in User Space mode (UPPAK - User Space Performance Pack) starting in R81.20 Jumbo Hotfix Accumulator Take 53.

Note - Smart-1 Cloud supports VSNext starting from Take 68 (see sk166056 - Smart-1 Cloud Release Updates) and Check Point Quantum R82, which requires installation on all members.

Important - The insights CLI tool, which provides monitoring for the entire Scalable Platform cluster in Expert mode and Gaia gClish, can display an error indicating a mismatch in the IP address for the MaaS tunnel interface under a specific context ID. This is a cosmetic issue and does not affect the functionality.