Introduction

Check Point CloudGuard for AWS

Organizations are adopting public cloud environments as an extension of their internal Data Centers (DC) to gain operational flexibility and lower operational costs.

The increasing number of applications in DC has led to a dramatic increase in network traffic between different servers/application in DCs (east-west traffic).

However, when it comes to security, the focus has been on protecting the entrance to the DC, the perimeter, and there are few controls to secure east-west traffic in the datacenter. This represents a critical security risk where threats can traverse unimpeded once in the datacenter. Furthermore, traditional security approaches to this problem are unable to keep pace with the dynamic network changes and rapid provisioning of applications in a cloud environment.

Check Point CloudGuard for AWS with its advanced threat prevention capabilities will allow you to deal with that security risk and minimize it. This Guide will give you the steps required to get familiar with the AWS environment and how to deploy a basic daily scenario with CloudGuard in place. You will understand and simulate a real-life use case of use to grasp the ease of deploying automated advanced security protections within the AWS cloud. We have prepared basic exercises to illustrate the benefits of having security integrated into a virtual networking platform. The exercises are incremental, start from a basic setup, and progress to more advanced scenarios.

Important - This lab requires your own sandbox / test account in AWS. Check Point employees can request such account via Ticket Point > Cloud Service Operations.

For deployment of Check Point CloudGuard Network Security with AWS Gateway Load Balancer, We have dedicated Workshop.