Overview

Alkira Cloud Area Networking offers a global unified cloud network infrastructure as-a-service for enterprise networking and security needs. In partnership with Check Point, Alkira Cloud Area Networking offers deployment of Check Point CloudGuard Network Services Gateways (firewalls) from the Alkira Network Services Marketplace.

Enterprises benefit from automated and standardized deployment of the Check Point CloudGuard firewalls to service on-premises, cloud, and multi-cloud environments.

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Firewall Service Insertion

Benefits
Consolidate Firewall Footprint

Consolidate firewall services across a range of cloud providers and use cases. This common firewall footprint can be transparently inserted into any flow traversing the Alkira Cloud Area Networking routed fabric using Alkira intent-based policies.

Consistent Security Policy

Utilize consistent security policy and management platforms for Check Point CloudGuard firewalls deployed in the Alkira Cloud Area Networking across on-premises, cloud, and multi-cloud environments.

Realtime Auto-Scaling

The Alkira infrastructure constantly monitors Check Point CloudGuard firewall capacity and provides automatically scales the firewall deployment up and down based on the real-time demand. This allows organizations to optimize cost, while catering for intermittent spikes in demand.

Maintain Management Tools and Processes

Enterprises can continue to leverage their existing Check Point security policy, management tools and processes for the firewalls deployed in the Alkira Cloud Area Networking. Eliminating the need to implement new toolsets and negating the need to re-train existing operations teams.

Automated Provisioning and Lifecycle Management

Alkira Cloud Area Networking manages the provisioning, monitoring and lifecycle management of all Check Point CloudGuard firewalls instantiated via the Alkira Network Services Marketplace. Eliminating complex and arcane deployment approaches and providing insight for day-to-day operations.

Solution

The Alkira Cloud Area Networking Services Marketplace allows enterprises to instantly provision Check Point CloudGuard firewall instances and seamlessly integrate into the global Alkira routed network fabric. The joint solution provides the following elements:

Automated Provisioning

1-click provisioning of the Check Point CloudGuard firewalls with full lifecycle management

Policy-based Service Insertion

Alkira intent-based policies to symmetrically steer the traffic of interest to the Check Point CloudGuard firewalls

Auto-Scaling

Automatically scale up and down Check Point CloudGuard firewall deployment based on real-time capacity demand

Alkira Cloud Services Exchange

How it works?

  • Login into the Alkira Cloud Area Networking portal
  • Instantiate Check Point CloudGuard firewalls from the Alkira Network Services Marketplace and map to Alkira Segments and Groups
  • Implement Alkira intent-based policy to insert firewalls transparently and symmetrically for Internet, on-premises, and multi-cloud application flows

Check Point CloudGuard firewalls will receive security policy from standard Check Point SMS/MDS management servers, allowing for consistent policy management across the enterprise.

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