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 simplifies security management across all environments, including on-premise firewalls, networks, cloud services, mobile devices, and IoT systems.

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

With Quantum Smart-1 Cloud, you can automate essential tasks such as Security Gateways onboarding, device monitoring, facility power management, and software updates, saving valuable time and resources.

Quantum Smart-1 Cloud makes sure you always have access to the latest features and security capabilities through automatic updates to your unified management platform, keeping you current with the newest security advancements.

Key Benefits

Always the Latest Security Management - Newest features automatically updated in your unified management platform.
Zero Maintenance - No need to monitor or perform backup operations on your Security Management Server.
On-demand Expansion - Seamlessly increase capacity to support more Security Gateways and additional storage needs.

Use Case

A typical use case is a company seeking to improve operational efficiency and reduce the complexity of their Security Management platform. With Smart-1 Cloud, companies can focus more on managing their actual security rather than the underlying infrastructure.

Tasks like maintenance, software updates, security patches, backups, and system health monitoring - all consume significant time and resources. Additionally, as companies grow, they need to properly scale their security solutions, often requiring new hardware purchases and complex migration processes. By shifting these IT management responsibilities to Smart-1 Cloud, companies can significantly enhance their security management while concentrating on their core business priorities.

Deploying a new Management Service in Smart-1 Cloud takes just one minute. Once deployment completes, you get a new Security Management Server instance running the latest version - immediately ready to connect with Security Gateways. Existing customers can easily migrate from their on-premises environment to Smart-1 Cloud. Following migration, you can resume work precisely where you left off with your on-premises Security Management Server (see Migrate for more information).

Important - Migration to Smart-1 Cloud is only supported from the 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 from 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.